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Informal Settlements of the Global South (Hardcover)
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Informal Settlements of the Global South (Hardcover)
Series: Architectural Borders and Territories
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Bringing together case studies ranging across the globe, including
the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee
camps in Kenya, Uganda and Bangladesh and contested 'informal'
enclaves and communities in the cities of India, China, Brazil,
Nigeria and South Africa, this book challenges current ways of
thinking about the governance of human settling, mobility, and
placemaking. Together, the 15 essays question the validity of the
conventional hegemonic divisions of Global North vs. Global South
and 'formal' vs. 'informal', in terms of geographic presence,
transborder performances, and the ideological inter-dependence of
Northern and Southern spaces, spatial practices and the uniformity
of authoritative enforcements. The book, whose authors themselves
come from all over the world, uses 'Global South' as a
methodological apparatus to ask the 'Southern' question of settling
and unsettling across the globe. Crucially, the studies reveal the
sentiments, resourcefulness and the agency of those positioned by
the powerful within the dichotomies of formal/informal, legitimate/
illegal, privileged/marginalized; etc., who are traditionally
identified within the dominant development discourse as mere
numbers or designated by intervening institutions as helpless
recipients. By focusing on hitherto invisible events and untold
stories of adaptation, negotiation and contestation by people and
their communities, this volume of essays takes the ongoing
North-South debate in new directions and opens up to the reader's
fresh areas of inquiry. It will be of interest to researchers and
students of architecture, planning, politics and sociology, as well
as built environment professionals.
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