A Border within a Border: The Migrants' Squatter Settlement in Patras as a Heterotopia

Lafazani, Olga

doi:10.1080/08865655.2012.751731

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“…As Olga Lafazani observes (Lafazani 2013), the garbagetown of the migrants forms a heterotopia in the sense implied by Michel Foucault. The heterotopia is a contrasted location which at the same time exists within and challenges the culture surrounding it (while also being challenged by it too).…”

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The Fluid Geography of Rubbish: An Analysis of the Patras Refugee Camp (1999–2009)

Lycourghiotis

2020

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, is a major station of contemporary refugee routes from Asia to Europe. Consequently, the city port frequently becomes a battleground between police and refugees trying to board the ships to Italy. Between 1999 and 2009, in a seaside area of the city, a large makeshift camp (of ~4000 inhabitants) was created by the refugees. Τhis small 'town' had a square, streets and even a 'mosque'. The building materials were found in waste from all over the city. With the garbage of the city being the only source of materials for the refugees, (both for building and eating), a social debate started in the local media. Is it legal or illegal for rubbish to be used in this way? To whom does the garbage 'belong'? Are the refugees 'waste people'? Should the police organize a "clean sweep" operation to pick them up? Ιn this work, we analyze the geographical origin and spread of the waste sources to the camp. Through photographic analysis and geographic documentation, we identify the main categories of garbage used in the refugee camp. Furthermore, we attempt to analyze the public ideological debate on the concept of 'waste'. Ιn 2009, an arson burned down the refugee camp and the ruins were removed as rubbish. However, before the camp was destroyed, the concept of waste in the public debate had been extended in such a way that even some people, the refugees, were included.

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

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The Fluid Geography of Rubbish: An Analysis of the Patras Refugee Camp (1999–2009)

Lycourghiotis

2020

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“…Heterotopic spaces represent a spatial otherness that, through the congregation of different social profiles and identities, questions the right to the place through the development of countercultural and even criminal practices (Shields, 1991). Thus, “heterotopias are something like counter-sites in which all the other real sites that can be found within a given culture are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted” (Lafazani, 2013, p. 5). Places that accommodates and accumulates difference, and, at the same time, are “in itself different, deviant, and other than the assumed norm,” can also fit in the term allotopia (Stevens & De Meulder, 2019, p. 401).…”

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Culture-Led Place-Making and Heterotopic Brand Building: A Comparative Approach between Ljubljana and Porto

Barcón

Sousa

2021

Space and Culture

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Contemporary strategic planning represents a logic of space reproduction based on the promotion of tourism as the cornerstone of cultural and creative economy. However, some grassroots social initiatives aim to build alternative spaces to the economic approach that permeates contemporary urban planning. This article reflects comparatively on the cases of the Metelkova self-organized autonomous zone (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and the STOP Shopping Center (Porto, Portugal). We suggest that both the squatting of military installations (Slovenia), as the strategic reconfiguration of a private commercial building (Portugal), share common aspects that must be addressed under a place-making approach. In doing so, we propose that the cultural activity produced in these places, their socioeconomic influence in the urban environment and their ability to promote tourism has resulted in a brand that allows them to be tolerated by their respective local governments.

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“…Michel Foucault (1986, 24) characterizes heterotopias as "countersites" and "a kind of effectively enacted utopia." Urban theory has mobilized and adapted the concept to a wide variety of sites, including migrant and refugee encampments (Olga 2013;Perdigon 2015), an inner-city theater in Johannesburg (Miranda da Cunha 2019), and urban religious sites (Bochow and Van Dijk 2012), among others. Of particular significance to the discussion here is Danny Hoffman's (2017) critique of Partha Chatterjee's (2004) use of the concept in relation to unlawful urban occupations.…”

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The City Otherwise: The Deferred Emergency of Occupation in Inner-City Johannesburg

Wilhelm-Solomon

2020

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Johannesburg between 2011 and 2019 in inner-city unlawful occupations and temporary emergency accommodation sites. These are often referred to as “hijacked buildings,” “bad buildings,” or “dark buildings.” However, they are also spaces of refuge, intimacy, and sociality for tens of thousands of South Africans and foreign nationals excluded from formal rental markets and often displaced by the drive for urban regeneration. This essay mobilizes two concepts to characterize these spaces. The first is the notion of the “city otherwise,” engaging Elizabeth Povinelli’s concept of “spaces of otherwise.” The residents of these occupations endure in spaces of emergence and potentiality. Furthermore, I argue that they exist in a juridical condition that I characterize as “the deferred emergency.” This condition entails the indefinite deferral of an emergency, framed around both the juridical and the infrastructural form of “temporary emergency accommodation” for the evicted.

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A Border within a Border: The Migrants' Squatter Settlement in Patras as a Heterotopia

Cited by 27 publications

References 14 publications

The Fluid Geography of Rubbish: An Analysis of the Patras Refugee Camp (1999–2009)

The Fluid Geography of Rubbish: An Analysis of the Patras Refugee Camp (1999–2009)

Culture-Led Place-Making and Heterotopic Brand Building: A Comparative Approach between Ljubljana and Porto

The City Otherwise: The Deferred Emergency of Occupation in Inner-City Johannesburg

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