Beyond the North-South divide: The two tales of world poverty

Thérien, Jean‐Philippe

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“…The North is generally understood to be formed of richer economies, but also is distinguished by the prevalence of adequate social conditions food and shelter, and education for populations. The inverse is observed in the Global South, where three-quarters of the worlds population control only one-fifth of the worlds income, and only 10% of the manufacturing industries are both owned and controlled by the South (Therien 1999). However, the use of the terms Global North and South is increasingly understood through a more progressive academic articulation of the challenges of global capitalism.…”

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Forgotten Plotlanders: Learning from the Survival of Lost Informal Housing in the UK

Bower

2016

Housing, Theory and Society

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Abstract:Colin Ward's discourses on the arcadian landscape of 'plotlander' housing are unique documentations of the anarchistic birth, life, and death of the last informal housing communities in the UK. Today the forgotten history of 'plotlander' housing documented by Ward can be re-read in the context of both the apparently never-ending 'housing crisis' in the UK, and the increasing awareness of the potential value of learning from comparable informal housing from the Global South. This papers observations of a previously unknown and forgotten plotlander site offers a chance to begin a new conversation regarding the positive potential of informal and alternative housing models in the UK and wider Westernised world. Keywords:informal space, housing, Colin Ward, plotlanders, anarchism. Word count:8662, excluding endnotes, references, etc 12657, including endnotes, references, etc Forgotten Plotlanders:Learning from the survival of lost housing anarchy in the UK.If seeking to engage with ideas of alternative housing models in the UK architectural practitioners and academics alike confront the negative economic, political, and sociocultural assumptions that pervade informal, anarchist, and even self-build housing. In both the Global North and Global South respectively, the formality of housing can be perceived as acting as a 'yardstick' with which to measure the development of countries Thus, the paper concludes by suggesting that key spatial characteristics that define Studd Hill suggest a platform from which to re-consider the value of informal housing in the UK. This trajectory of analysis begins to re-imagine the social production of informal space (Shields 1999, 183) as an opportunity to confront, contest, and disrupt the seemingly unending housing crisis in the UK. However, instead of a strategy for revolution or an ideological vision of society, Ward's interpretation is grounded in practice and offers a model of anarchism as a theory of organization and social agency. His analysis of principles of self-organisation in relation to housing, schooling, family, self-management, and governance is an attempt to relieve the tension between practicality and ideological aspiration (C. Ward 1996a, 7-9). Thus, Ward came to recognise the importance of proposing a future that could be realised through social agency and action, instead of relinquishing political agency in pursuit of a model of a future utopia built on state revolution. Anarchism, Global Informality, and 'Plotlanders'Writing on plotlanders predominantly in the 1970s, Ward was not alone in exploring alternative housing models for the UK. Indeed this was a short-lived but highly innovative period for participatory housing in the UK, with projects including Walter Segal's self-build council housing in Lewisham, and Nabeel Hamdi's similar attempts to reinvent social housing for the GLC (Greater London Council) using a modified model of John Habraken's 'Supports ' (1972)

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Forgotten Plotlanders: Learning from the Survival of Lost Informal Housing in the UK

Bower

2016

Housing, Theory and Society

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“…Indeed, the so-called 'Washington Consensus' on the need for laissez faire in the globalising economy referred to the location of IMF and World Bank headquarters (as well as the seat of the US Government) (Williamson, 1990). The WTO, the G8 and the OECD also strongly promoted neoliberal policies, and by the 1990s much UN activity in the area of economic and social policy had also taken a substantial neoliberal turn (Thérien, 1999;Wilkinson, 2006;Hajnal, 2007;Mahon and McBride, 2008). The rise of private mechanisms for global economic governance in the late twentieth century further embraced the logic of market-centred development (Graz and Nölke, 2008;Hansen and Salskov-Iversen, 2008).…”

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Poor people in rich countries: the roles of global governance

Scholte

2012

Global Social Policy

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Connections between global governance and poverty are usually made in relation to what are loosely called 'poor countries' of the 'global south'. However, global governance also significantly shapes dynamics of impoverishment in 'rich countries' of the 'global north'. These impacts become the more apparent when global governance is understood to involve not only well-known intergovernmental agencies such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation, but also additional institutional forms such as transgovernmental networks and private regulatory mechanisms. This broad complex of global governance has often exacerbated poverty in the global north: e.g., through neglect of the issue; through marginalisation of the people affected; and through the promotion of neoliberal policy frames. At the same time, global governance has in other ways also promoted poverty alleviation in 'high-income countries': e.g., with rules that work in their structural favour; with policy learning; with rights discourses; and with some promotion of global-scale social democracy. Thus the challenge for efforts to reduce poverty in the global north is, on the one hand, to counter the negative implications of global governance and, on the other hand, to nurture the positive forces. Global coalitions of anti-poverty campaigners -in particular across north-south lines -could especially serve these politics.

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“…Half a century later, pioneering British race scholar Anthony Richmond (1955: 11) (Said 1994), the North/South divide (Therien 2010), European colonizer versus non-European colonized (e.g., Memmi 1965, Spivak 1988, Grosfoguel 2006, or centeredness versus alterity (e.g., Grillo 2007). …”

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confidence: 99%