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Written in a comprehensive yet accessible style, Urban Violence,
Resilience and Security investigates the diverse nature of urban
violence within Latin America, Asia and Africa. It further analyzes
how regular and irregular governing mechanisms can provide human
security, despite the presence of chronic violence. The empirically
rich and conceptually grounded contributions of established and
emerging scholars evaluate the current state and future trajectory
of urban development. They also question common explanations of the
drivers of violence in urban areas and also provide measured
recommendations for improved policy and future governance. Chapters
thoroughly examine the opportunities and hazards of focusing on
resilience as the only method to improve security and identify
governance and policy practices that can move beyond the rhetoric
of resilience to evaluate diverse approaches to attaining human
security in urban areas of the Global South. This invigorating book
will be an excellent resource for academic researchers interested
in urban dynamics in the Global South as well as scholars embarking
on geography, human security, political science and policy studies.
Based on a set of original case studies, policymakers will also
benefit from the questions and challenges to the conventional
approaches to urban planning and governance that it raises.
Theories of performativity have garnered considerable attention
within the social sciences and humanities over the past two
decades. At the same time, there has also been a growing
recognition that the social production of space is fundamental to
assertions of political authority and the practices of everyday
life. However, comparatively little scholarship has explored the
full implications that arise from the confluence of these two
streams of social and political thought. This is the first
book-length, edited collection devoted explicitly to showcasing
geographical scholarship on the spatial politics of performativity.
It offers a timely intervention within the field of critical human
geography by exploring the performativity of political spaces and
the spatiality of performative politics. Through a series of
geographical case studies, the contributors to this volume consider
the ways in which a performative conception of the "political"
might reshape our understanding of sovereignty, political
subjectification, and the production of social space. Marking the
20th anniversary of the publication of Judith Butler's classic,
Bodies That Matter (1993), this edited volume brings together a
range of contemporary geographical works that draw exciting new
connections between performativity, space, and politics.
Theories of performativity have garnered considerable attention
within the social sciences and humanities over the past two
decades. At the same time, there has also been a growing
recognition that the social production of space is fundamental to
assertions of political authority and the practices of everyday
life. However, comparatively little scholarship has explored the
full implications that arise from the confluence of these two
streams of social and political thought. This is the first
book-length, edited collection devoted explicitly to showcasing
geographical scholarship on the spatial politics of performativity.
It offers a timely intervention within the field of critical human
geography by exploring the performativity of political spaces and
the spatiality of performative politics. Through a series of
geographical case studies, the contributors to this volume consider
the ways in which a performative conception of the "political"
might reshape our understanding of sovereignty, political
subjectification, and the production of social space. Marking the
20th anniversary of the publication of Judith Butler's classic,
Bodies That Matter (1993), this edited volume brings together a
range of contemporary geographical works that draw exciting new
connections between performativity, space, and politics.
On an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and
play-areas of Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town housing development,
birds chirp as early risers dash off to work, elderly residents
enjoy a peaceful morning stroll, and flocks of parents usher their
children to school. It seems an unlikely location for conflict and
strife, yet this eighteen-block area, initially planned as
middle-class affordable housing, is the site of an ongoing struggle
between long-term, rent-regulated residents, younger, market-rate
tenants, and new owners seeking to turn this community into a
luxury commodity. Priced Out takes readers into this heated battle
as a transitioning neighborhood wrestles with contemporary
capitalist strategies and the struggle to preserve renters' rights.
Since the early 2000's, Stuyvesant Town's owners have sought to
transform this iconic Manhattan housing development into a luxury
destination for those able to afford the higher price tag.
Attempting to replace longtime residents with younger, more
affluent tenants, they have disrupted native residents' sense of
place, community, and their perceived quality of life. Through
resident interviews, the authors offer an intimate view into the
lives of different groups of tenants involved in this struggle for
prime real estate in New York, from students experiencing the city
for the first time to baby boomers hanging on to the vestiges of
middle-class urban life. A compelling, fascinating account of
changing urban landscapes and the struggle for security, Priced Out
offers a comprehensive perspective of a community that, to some, is
becoming unrecognizable as it is upgraded and altered.
On an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and
play-areas of Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town housing development,
birds chirp as early risers dash off to work, elderly residents
enjoy a peaceful morning stroll, and flocks of parents usher their
children to school. It seems an unlikely location for conflict and
strife, yet this eighteen-block area, initially planned as
middle-class affordable housing, is the site of an ongoing struggle
between long-term, rent-regulated residents, younger, market-rate
tenants, and new owners seeking to turn this community into a
luxury commodity. Priced Out takes readers into this heated battle
as a transitioning neighborhood wrestles with contemporary
capitalist strategies and the struggle to preserve renters' rights.
Since the early 2000's, Stuyvesant Town's owners have sought to
transform this iconic Manhattan housing development into a luxury
destination for those able to afford the higher price tag.
Attempting to replace longtime residents with younger, more
affluent tenants, they have disrupted native residents' sense of
place, community, and their perceived quality of life. Through
resident interviews, the authors offer an intimate view into the
lives of different groups of tenants involved in this struggle for
prime real estate in New York, from students experiencing the city
for the first time to baby boomers hanging on to the vestiges of
middle-class urban life. A compelling, fascinating account of
changing urban landscapes and the struggle for security, Priced Out
offers a comprehensive perspective of a community that, to some, is
becoming unrecognizable as it is upgraded and altered.
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