Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High‐Rise Housing in Singapore

Jacobs, Jane; Cairns, Stephen

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“…To do so requires, in turn, a conception of the city as a dwelling process that continuously reshapes the ways in which people, materials, ideas and resources come together (Simone, 2010: 5). This view of the city as an assemblage resonates with a growing body of geographical scholarship that focuses on 'how city places and urban technologies are assembled incrementally and contingently' (Jacobs, 2012: 417;see Farías, 2009;Gandy, 2005;Jacobs and Cairns, 2011;Jacobs and Merriman, 2011;McFarlane, 2011a). While a close theoretical interrogation of this work is beyond the compass of this paper, a recognition of the makeshift character of urban squatting has the potential to bridge a radical political economy tradition with more recent post-structural approaches to city life.…”

Section: The Makeshift Citymentioning

confidence: 79%

The makeshift city

Vasudevan

2014

Progress in Human Geography

193

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This paper introduces a set of analytical frames that explore the possibilities of conceiving, researching and writing a global geography of squatting. The paper argues that it is possible to detect, in the most tenuous of urban settings, ways of thinking about and living urban life that have the potential to reanimate the city as a key site of geographical inquiry. The paper develops a modest theory of 'urban combats' to account for the complexity and provisionality of squatting as an informal set of practices, as a makeshift approach to housing and as a precarious form of inhabiting the city.

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Section: The Makeshift Citymentioning

confidence: 79%

The makeshift city

Vasudevan

2014

Progress in Human Geography

193

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“…Houses and gardens are set in slow time (cf. Jacobs and Cairns ), which people would ideally join, not the other way around. There is constant chatter about renovations, heating systems, authentic wallpapers, chimneys, signs of spring in the garden, growing plants, apples, and plums, to mention but a few of the subjects discussed.…”

Section: The House and The Plazamentioning

confidence: 99%

Feeling at Home in the Neighborhood: Belonging, the House and the Plaza in Helsinki and Madrid

Kuurne

Gomez

2019

City & Community

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Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork in two historic, attractive, and socially mixed neighborhoods, Kumpula in Helsinki and Malasaña in Madrid, this paper examines what makes people feel at home (or not) in their neighborhood. Marrying the literatures on social belonging and materiality, we analyze the interactions through which local places, people, and materials become familiar and personal. We identify the house in Kumpula and the plaza in Madrid as “everyday totems” that weave local life and community together. In both neighborhoods, the testimonies of home are accompanied with an attachment to the local totem and related lifestyle, but the house and the plaza generate different everyday politics of belonging. House‐based belonging in Kumpula requires resources and long‐term engagement that over time contributes to a personal, but rather exclusive web of belonging. Plaza‐based belonging in Malasaña is more inclusive and elastic, but joining the web of belonging requires time and sociability.

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“…This activity demands that we take the effects of time into account, simultaneously retrofitting and foreseeing what comes next. Maintenance is related to planning, appearing as a form of 'repair-before-failure' intending to prevent 'repairafter-failure' (Jacobs and Cairns 2011). Yet it is also a matter of concern in the present, an active practice of monitoring, tracking and intervening to sustain a system and its wider relations over time (Denis and Pontille 2015).…”

Section: Everyday Micropowersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia

2018

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The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena. A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices. Alena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of UCL. Peter Zusi is Lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of UCL.By adopting the tropes of 'repair' and 'waste', this book innovatively manages to link various material registers from architecture, intergenerational relations, affect and museums with ways of making the past present. Through a rigorous yet transdisciplinary method, Martínez brings together different scales and contexts that would often be segregated out. In this respect, the ethnography unfolds a deep and nuanced analysis, providing a useful comparative and insightful account of the processes of repair and waste making in all their material, social and ontological dimensions.Victor Buchli, Professor of Material Culture at UCL This book comprises an endearingly transdisciplinary ethnography of postsocialist material culture and social change in Estonia. Martínez creatively draws on a number of critical and cultural theorists, together with additional research on memory and political studies scholarship and the classics of anthropology. Grappling concurrently with time and space, the book offers a delightfully thick description of the material effects generated by the accelerated post-Soviet transformation in Estonia, inquiring into the generational specificities in experiencing and relating to the postsocialist condition through the conceptual anchors of wasted legacies and repair. This book defies disciplinary boundaries and shows how an attention to material relations and affective infrastructures might reinvigorate political theory.Maria This is a book about many things. Originally, it appears as a critique of discourses about the past, and yet it unfolds as an ethnography of pastness that deals with the contemporary city, geographies of affect, generational change and materiality. The work interweaves a number of topics related to how physical and cultural wasting are rarely synchronised, accounting for diverse ways of treating inheritances and the different intensities of urban memory that they generate. By studying the material and social afterlife of the Soviet world in Estonia, I attempt to show the dialectical relation between construction and demolition, and how the need to build something new entails the disinvestment and neglect of the legacies from the old regime. With a fringy anthropology, I explore how the vanquishing over the Soviet world happened on a different time scale from the decay of its legacy, allowing for new availabilities, intricate reappropriations and unforeseen opportunities for recuper...

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Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High‐Rise Housing in Singapore

Cited by 25 publications

References 27 publications

The makeshift city

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Feeling at Home in the Neighborhood: Belonging, the House and the Plaza in Helsinki and Madrid

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