Abstract The Fearless Cities summit, coordinated by Barcelona en Comú in June 2017, marked the first global gathering of the nascent “new municipalist” movement. Responding …
The author contests older concepts of autonomy as either revolutionary or ineffective vis-à- vis the state. Looking at four prominent Latin American movements, she defines autonomy …
In Dublin there are many needs and desires which are not met, or excluded, by the pattern of high rent, the commodification of social/cultural life, and the regulation of public space …
An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities Provoked by mass evictions …
Stephan, 18, will soon graduate from high school, and has been offered places in several good universities, but he is undecided not only on which offer to accept, but also on whether …
Despite their theoretical and political potential, recent debates on enclosure usually lack an effective consideration of how space is mobilized in the process of dispossession. This …
DA Ghertner - Antipode, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the narratives through which associations of private property owners in Delhi depict slums as zones of incivility and “nuisance.” In tracing how this “nuisance talk” …
In India, the practice of jugaad—finding workarounds or hacks to solve problems—emerged out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now …
R Felli - New Political Economy, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Numerous recent reports by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), academics and international organisations have focused on so-called 'climate refugees'. This article …