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Drawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this
book explores how the intensive use of data changes politics, power
relations and everyday life in contemporary cities. Across the
volume, expert contributors show how urban actors, from the state
to activists, are increasingly using data as a resource to empower
their actions and support their claims and shows how times of
crisis are moments when the power of data is made visible. Focusing
on the different dimensions of data power and politics in the urban
realm, this is an important contribution to our understanding of
how datafication transforms the places in which we live and how we
experience them.
The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and
gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter
settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in
India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens,
'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a
spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that
in this context, it has become vital to distinguish between
illegality and informality since it is those 'illegal' slums which
are at the receiving end of a 'force of law', where law is
violently encountered within everyday spaces. This book uses a
gendered intersectional lens to explore how a 'violence of law'
shapes how 'public' subjectivities of gender, class, religion and
caste are encountered and negotiated within the 'private' spaces of
home, family and neighbourhood. This book suggests that
resettlement is not a condition that squatters desire; rather
something that is seen as the only way out of the 'illegal' city.
The wait for resettlement is a temporal space of anxiety and
uncertainty, where particular kinds of politics around law, space
and gender takes shape, which transform squatters' relations with
the state, urban development, civil society, and with each other.
Through their everyday struggles around water, sanitation, social
and political organisation and the transformation of their homes
and families, this book shows that the desire for the 'legal city'
is also the irony and utopia of home, which will remain an
incomplete gendered project - both for the state and for squatters.
The global south is entering an 'Urban Age' where, for the first
time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the
countryside. The logics of this prediction have a dominant framing
- rapid urbanization, uncontrolled migration, resource depletion,
severe fuel shortages and the breakdown of law and order. We are
told that we must be prepared. The solution is simple, they say.
Mega-urbanization is an opportunity for economic growth and
prosperity. Therefore we must build big, build new and build fast.
With contributions from an international range of established and
emerging scholars drawing upon real-world examples,
Mega-Urbanization in the Global South is the first to use the lens
of speed to examine the postcolonial 'urban revolution'. From the
mega-urbanization of Lusaka, to the production of satellite cities
in Jakarta, to new cities built from scratch in Masdar, Songdo and
Rajarhat, this book argues that speed is now the persistent feature
of a range of utopian visions that seek to expedite the production
of new cities. These 'fast cities' are the enduring images of
postcolonial urbanism, which bypass actually existing urbanisms
through new power-knowledge coalitions of producing, knowing and
governing the city. The book explores three main themes. Part I
examines fast cities as new urban utopias which propagate the
illusion that they are 'quick fix' sustainable solutions to
insulate us from future crises. Part II discusses the role of the
entrepreneurial state that despite its neoliberalisation is playing
a key role in shaping mega-urbanization through laws, policies and
brute force. Part III finally delves into how fast cities built by
entrepreneurial states actually materialise at the scale of
regional urbanization rather than as metropolitan growth. This book
explores the contradictions between intended and unintended
outcomes of fast cities and points to their fault lines between
state sovereignty, capital accumulation and citizenship. It
concludes with a vision and manifesto for 'slow' and decelerated
urbanism. This timely and original book presents urban scholars
with the theoretical, empirical and methodological challenges of
mega-urbanization in the global south, as well as highlighting new
theoretical agendas and empirical analyses that these new forms of
city-making bring to the fore.
The global south is entering an 'Urban Age' where, for the first
time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the
countryside. The logics of this prediction have a dominant framing
- rapid urbanization, uncontrolled migration, resource depletion,
severe fuel shortages and the breakdown of law and order. We are
told that we must be prepared. The solution is simple, they say.
Mega-urbanization is an opportunity for economic growth and
prosperity. Therefore we must build big, build new and build fast.
With contributions from an international range of established and
emerging scholars drawing upon real-world examples,
Mega-Urbanization in the Global South is the first to use the lens
of speed to examine the postcolonial 'urban revolution'. From the
mega-urbanization of Lusaka, to the production of satellite cities
in Jakarta, to new cities built from scratch in Masdar, Songdo and
Rajarhat, this book argues that speed is now the persistent feature
of a range of utopian visions that seek to expedite the production
of new cities. These 'fast cities' are the enduring images of
postcolonial urbanism, which bypass actually existing urbanisms
through new power-knowledge coalitions of producing, knowing and
governing the city. The book explores three main themes. Part I
examines fast cities as new urban utopias which propagate the
illusion that they are 'quick fix' sustainable solutions to
insulate us from future crises. Part II discusses the role of the
entrepreneurial state that despite its neoliberalisation is playing
a key role in shaping mega-urbanization through laws, policies and
brute force. Part III finally delves into how fast cities built by
entrepreneurial states actually materialise at the scale of
regional urbanization rather than as metropolitan growth. This book
explores the contradictions between intended and unintended
outcomes of fast cities and points to their fault lines between
state sovereignty, capital accumulation and citizenship. It
concludes with a vision and manifesto for 'slow' and decelerated
urbanism. This timely and original book presents urban scholars
with the theoretical, empirical and methodological challenges of
mega-urbanization in the global south, as well as highlighting new
theoretical agendas and empirical analyses that these new forms of
city-making bring to the fore.
Bringing together a wide range of original empirical research from
locations and interconnected geographical contexts from Europe,
Australasia, Asia, Africa, Central and Latin America, this book
sets out a different agenda for mobility - one which emphasizes the
enduring connectedness between, and embeddedness within, places
during and after the experience of mobility. These issues are
examined through the themes of home and family, neighbourhoods and
city spaces and allow the reader to engage with migrants' diverse
practices which are specifically local, yet spatially global. This
book breaks new ground by arguing for a spatial understanding of
translocality that situates the migrant experience within/across
particular 'locales' without confining it to the territorial
boundedness of the nation state. It will be of interest to
academics and students of social and cultural geography,
anthropology and transnational studies.
Bringing together a wide range of original empirical research from
locations and interconnected geographical contexts from Europe,
Australasia, Asia, Africa, Central and Latin America, this book
sets out a different agenda for mobility - one which emphasizes the
enduring connectedness between, and embeddedness within, places
during and after the experience of mobility. These issues are
examined through the themes of home and family, neighbourhoods and
city spaces and allow the reader to engage with migrants' diverse
practices which are specifically local, yet spatially global. This
book breaks new ground by arguing for a spatial understanding of
translocality that situates the migrant experience within/across
particular 'locales' without confining it to the territorial
boundedness of the nation state. It will be of interest to
academics and students of social and cultural geography,
anthropology and transnational studies.
The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and
gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter
settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in
India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens,
'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a
spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that
in this context, it has become vital to distinguish between
illegality and informality since it is those 'illegal' slums which
are at the receiving end of a 'force of law', where law is
violently encountered within everyday spaces. This book uses a
gendered intersectional lens to explore how a 'violence of law'
shapes how 'public' subjectivities of gender, class, religion and
caste are encountered and negotiated within the 'private' spaces of
home, family and neighbourhood. This book suggests that
resettlement is not a condition that squatters desire; rather
something that is seen as the only way out of the 'illegal' city.
The wait for resettlement is a temporal space of anxiety and
uncertainty, where particular kinds of politics around law, space
and gender takes shape, which transform squatters' relations with
the state, urban development, civil society, and with each other.
Through their everyday struggles around water, sanitation, social
and political organisation and the transformation of their homes
and families, this book shows that the desire for the 'legal city'
is also the irony and utopia of home, which will remain an
incomplete gendered project - both for the state and for squatters.
Debates about contemporary Islam and Muslims in the West have taken
some negative turns in the depressing atmosphere of the war on
terror and its aftermath. This book argues that we have been too
preoccupied with problems, not enough with solutions. The increased
mobilisation and scrutiny of Muslim identities has taken place in
the context of a more general recasting of racial ideas and racism:
a shift from overtly racial to ostensibly ethnic and cultural
including religious categories within discourses of social
difference. The targeting of Muslims has been associated with new
forms of an older phenomenon: imperialism. New divisions between
Muslims and others echo colonial binaries of black and white,
colonised and coloniser, within practices of divide and rule. This
book speaks to others who have been marginalised and colonised, and
to wider debates about social difference, oppression and
liberation.
Debates about contemporary Islam and Muslims in the West have taken
some negative turns in the depressing atmosphere of the war on
terror and its aftermath. This book argues that we have been too
preoccupied with problems, not enough with solutions. The increased
mobilisation and scrutiny of Muslim identities has taken place in
the context of a more general recasting of racial ideas and racism:
a shift from overtly racial to ostensibly ethnic and cultural
including religious categories within discourses of social
difference. The targeting of Muslims has been associated with new
forms of an older phenomenon: imperialism. New divisions between
Muslims and others echo colonial binaries of black and white,
colonised and coloniser, within practices of divide and rule. This
book speaks to others who have been marginalised and colonised, and
to wider debates about social difference, oppression and
liberation.
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