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Geographies of Forced Eviction : Dispossession, Violence, Resistance /

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 a...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Brickell, Katherine (Editor); Fern ndez Arrigoitia, Melissa (Editor); Vasudevan, Alexander (Editor)
Published: Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Urban geography.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Sociology, Urban.
Human geography.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51127-0
Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XI, 230 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781137511270
Index Number: GF1
CLC: K901
Contents: 1. Struggling for the Right to be Recognized -- 2. The Right to Adequate Housing Following Forced Evictions in Post-Conflict Colombo, Sri Lanka -- 3. Unsettling Resettlements -- 4. It Felt Like You Were at a War -- 5. Domicide and the Coalition -- <6. Work, Power, and Resistance in Eviction Enforcement -- 7. Home eviction, Grassroots Organizations and Citizen Empowerment in Spain -- 8. Zwangsr umungen in Berlin -- .

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