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This Handbook provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand
how displacement is lived, governed, and mediated as an unfolding
and grounded process bound up in spatial inequities of power and
injustice. The handbook ensures, first, that internal displacements
and their everyday (re)occurrences are not overlooked; second, it
questions 'who counts' by including 'displaced' people who are less
obviously identifiable and a clearly circumscribed or categorised
group; third, it stresses that while displacement suggests
mobility, there are also periods and spaces of enforced stillness
that are not adequately reflected in the displacement literature;
and fourth, it re-evokes and explores the 'place' in displacement
by critically interrogating peoples' 'right to place' and the
significance of placemaking, unmaking, and remaking in the
contemporary world. The 50-plus chapters are organised across seven
themes designed to further develope interdisciplinary study of the
technologies, journeys, traces, governance, more-than-human,
representation, and resisting of displacement. Each of these
thematic sections begin with an intervention which spotlights
actions to creatively and strategically intervene in displacement.
The interventions explore myriad meanings and manifestations of
displacement and its contestation from the perspective of displaced
people, artists, writers, activists, scholar-activists, and
scholars involved in practice-oriented research. The Handbook will
be an essential companion for academics, students, and
practitioners committed to forging solidarity, care, and home in an
era of displacement.
This book offers a close look at forced evictions, drawing on
empirical studies and conceptual frameworks from both the Global
North and South. It draws attention to arenas where multiple logics
of urban dispossession, violence and insecurity are manifest, and
where wider socio-economic, political and legal struggles converge.
The authors highlight the need to apply emotional and affective
registers of dispossession and insecurity to the socio-political
and financial economies driving forced evictions across geographic
scales. The chapters each consider the distinct urban logics of
precarious housing or involuntary displacements that stretch across
London, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai and Colombo. A timely
addition to existing literature on urban studies, this collection
will be of great interest to policy makers and scholars of human
geography, development studies, and sociology.
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.
Offering a comprehensive overview of the current situation in the
country, The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia provides a broad
coverage of social, cultural, political and economic development
within both rural and urban contexts during the last decade. A
detailed introduction places Cambodia within its global and
regional frame, and the handbook is then divided into five thematic
sections: Political and Economic Tensions Rural Developments Urban
Conflicts Social Processes Cultural Currents The first section
looks at the major political implications and tensions that have
occurred in Cambodia, as well as the changing parameters of its
economic profile. The handbook then highlights the major
developments that are unfolding within the rural sphere, before
moving on to consider how cities in Cambodia, and particularly
Phnom Penh, have become primary sites of change. The fourth section
covers the major processes that have shaped social understandings
of the country, and how Cambodians have come to understand
themselves in relation to each other and the outside world. Section
five analyses the cultural dimensions of Cambodia's current
experience, and how identity comes into contact with and responds
to other cultural themes. Bringing together a team of leading
scholars on Cambodia, the handbook presents an understanding of how
sociocultural and political economic processes in the country have
evolved. It is a cutting edge and interdisciplinary resource for
scholars and students of Southeast Asian Studies, as well as
policymakers, sociologists and political scientists with an
interest in contemporary Cambodia.
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.
Offering a comprehensive overview of the current situation in the
country, The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia provides a broad
coverage of social, cultural, political and economic development
within both rural and urban contexts during the last decade. A
detailed introduction places Cambodia within its global and
regional frame, and the handbook is then divided into five thematic
sections: Political and Economic Tensions Rural Developments Urban
Conflicts Social Processes Cultural Currents The first section
looks at the major political implications and tensions that have
occurred in Cambodia, as well as the changing parameters of its
economic profile. The handbook then highlights the major
developments that are unfolding within the rural sphere, before
moving on to consider how cities in Cambodia, and particularly
Phnom Penh, have become primary sites of change. The fourth section
covers the major processes that have shaped social understandings
of the country, and how Cambodians have come to understand
themselves in relation to each other and the outside world. Section
five analyses the cultural dimensions of Cambodia's current
experience, and how identity comes into contact with and responds
to other cultural themes. Bringing together a team of leading
scholars on Cambodia, the handbook presents an understanding of how
sociocultural and political economic processes in the country have
evolved. It is a cutting edge and interdisciplinary resource for
scholars and students of Southeast Asian Studies, as well as
policymakers, sociologists and political scientists with an
interest in contemporary Cambodia.
Recent developments in the organization of work and production have
facilitated the decline of wage employment in many regions of the
world. However, the idea of the wage continues to dominate the
political imaginations of governments, researchers and activists,
based on the historical experiences of industrial workers in the
global North. This edited collection revitalises debates on the
future of work by challenging the idea of wage employment as the
global norm. Taking theoretical inspiration from the global South,
the authors compare lived experiences of 'ordinary work' across
taken-for-granted conceptual and geographical boundaries; from
Cambodian brick kilns to Catalonian cooperatives. Their
contributions open up new possibilities for how work, identity and
security might be woven together differently. This volume is an
invaluable resource for academics, students and readers interested
in alternative and emerging forms of work around the world.
This Handbook provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand
how displacement is lived, governed, and mediated as an unfolding
and grounded process bound up in spatial inequities of power and
injustice. The handbook ensures, first, that internal displacements
and their everyday (re)occurrences are not overlooked; second, it
questions 'who counts' by including 'displaced' people who are less
obviously identifiable and a clearly circumscribed or categorised
group; third, it stresses that while displacement suggests
mobility, there are also periods and spaces of enforced stillness
that are not adequately reflected in the displacement literature;
and fourth, it re-evokes and explores the 'place' in displacement
by critically interrogating peoples' 'right to place' and the
significance of placemaking, unmaking, and remaking in the
contemporary world. The 50-plus chapters are organised across seven
themes designed to further develope interdisciplinary study of the
technologies, journeys, traces, governance, more-than-human,
representation, and resisting of displacement. Each of these
thematic sections begin with an intervention which spotlights
actions to creatively and strategically intervene in displacement.
The interventions explore myriad meanings and manifestations of
displacement and its contestation from the perspective of displaced
people, artists, writers, activists, scholar-activists, and
scholars involved in practice-oriented research. The Handbook will
be an essential companion for academics, students, and
practitioners committed to forging solidarity, care, and home in an
era of displacement.
This book offers a close look at forced evictions, drawing on
empirical studies and conceptual frameworks from both the Global
North and South. It draws attention to arenas where multiple logics
of urban dispossession, violence and insecurity are manifest, and
where wider socio-economic, political and legal struggles converge.
The authors highlight the need to apply emotional and affective
registers of dispossession and insecurity to the socio-political
and financial economies driving forced evictions across geographic
scales. The chapters each consider the distinct urban logics of
precarious housing or involuntary displacements that stretch across
London, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai and Colombo. A timely
addition to existing literature on urban studies, this collection
will be of great interest to policy makers and scholars of human
geography, development studies, and sociology.
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