From eviction to evicting: Rethinking the technologies, lives and power sustaining displacement

Baker, Alexander

doi:10.1177/0309132520910798

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“…Nevertheless, we join a chorus of recent studies that are cognizant of the limitations of resistance (Wilhelm‐Solomon, 2021; Maqsood and Sajjad, 2021). As Baker (2021: 808) contends, eviction is the way the state appropriates time and space through ‘linked materials, people, and technologies across the multiple axes’. The multidimensional constellations of urban politics may keep the conversation about the politics of inhabitations alive, yet the state retains the dominant, though not absolute, power to define the grammar of urban politics.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this way, tensions arise between the state's rationalized model of citizenry and the diverse practices of citizenship (Holston, 2008). The current focus on seeing the act of domicide as the embodiment of home‐unmaking, extreme and violent as it is, overlooks the fact that there is also ‘everyday’ home‐unmaking, which takes place long after the physical home is razed (Baker, 2021). Furthermore, many feminist geographers contend that homemaking and home‐unmaking are two processes that occur simultaneously rather than sequentially (Blunt, 2005; Rao, 2010; Brickell, 2012a; Nowicki, 2014).…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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UNRAVELLED HOMES: Forced Evictions and Home Remaking in Jakarta

Siagian¹,

Utomo²,

Kamil³

et al. 2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article explores the contours of modernization in the unmaking and remaking of homes among evicted and resettled families in highrise housing. We examine the trajectories of forced eviction by drawing upon interviews with 17 individuals from nine evicted families who have transitioned from living in informal settlements to highrise social housing ( rusunawa ) in Jakarta. Drawing on two strands of literature-'developmental idealism and the family' from population studies and the critical geographies of 'homemaking'we argue that the demolition of houses is but an initial event in a long, quiet and subtle, yet profoundly defi ning, process of 'upgrading' families as part of 'improving' society, according to developmental logic. The disciplining of the urban poor does not end with the demolition of their houses, but rather continues as part of the fulfi lment of shelter. This article attends to the slow unravelling of home hidden and embedded in post-eviction everyday lives, which are often overlooked because of the overt and violent brutality of forced eviction. While eviction can be seen as the violent visual expression of developmentalism, we argue that the relocation in rusunawa is where this ideal permeates into daily domestic life, making mundane activities a battleground for diff erent ideals of 'home'.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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UNRAVELLED HOMES: Forced Evictions and Home Remaking in Jakarta

Siagian¹,

Utomo²,

Kamil³

et al. 2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Marxist urban geographies have long recognized that the creation of surplus value requires the production, dispossession, and annihilation of space, resulting in displacement of previous land users and the accumulation of exchange value (Harvey 2003)-apparent in the metaphorical displacement and fixing of value in space (Bok 2019). Dispossessive displacement in processes of expulsion (Sassen 2014), land grabs (Li 2010), eviction (Baker 2020b), dispersal (Garelli and Tazzioli 2016), and development (Wang and Wu 2019) allows the realization and capture of exchange value through the displacement of previous users of a space or resource. In the context of migration, displaced and im/mobilized "floating" labor power is feminized and exploited by virtue of its informal status (Gago 2017;Coddington, Conlon, and Martin 2020;De Genova and Roy 2020), forced into reliance on exploitative rentier economies (Wu, Zhang, and Webster 2013;Cowan 2018), or rendered as captive consumers and laborers in carceral confinement (Conlon and Hiemstra 2014).…”

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The Need for Inter/Subdisciplinary Thinking in Critical Conceptualizations of Displacement

Roast¹,

Conlon²,

Garelli³

et al. 2023

Geographies of Displacement/S

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Displacement occupies an ambiguous position in contemporary geographical thought. Displacement through gentrification and regeneration has gained prominence in critical urban geography, even as critical migration, border, and citizenship studies have simultaneously produced a robust literature on transnational displacement and internally displaced persons. In response to emerging crises of global and urban order, this article adds to a consideration of displacement-as concept and methodology-through an urging of attention to three drivers common to urban, subnational, and transnational scales of displacement. Our key argument is to suggest an urgent research agenda addressing the different scales and roles of value, choice, and infrastructure, both as drivers in processes of displacement and as points of learning between subdisciplines. Collectively, our work on migration and urban restructuring shows that large-scale development and resettlement projects, labor markets, and extraordinary measures of crisis management generate new ways in which value is extracted from displaced bodies and depeopled places. Against a tendency to index displacement (in both policy and research methodology) as either voluntary or nonvoluntary, we advance a critique of the choice structure of displacement. We further call attention to the infrastructures and technologies through which displacement is moved from a temporary state of exception to an ongoing state of normality. In doing so, we call for the need to rethink the epistemology of displacement and identify the significance of cross-subdisciplinary conversations for this project.

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“…This also leads to a ‘fragmented habitus’ of the Roma (Creţan et al, 2022). Shifting the focus from causes and outcomes of evictions to their means and agents, Lancione (2017), Zamfirescu and Chelcea (2021) and Baker (2020) interrogate the non-human agencies, for example material technologies, infrastructures, practices and affective capacities, that sustain practices of eviction.…”

Section: Expulsions and The Unsettling Of Socio-spatial Orders In Rom...mentioning

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‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania

Anghel¹,

Alexandrescu²

2022

Urban Studies

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This article studies the urban geographies of Roma poverty by exploring variations in spatialisation. We draw on Sassen’s work on expulsions to argue that the spatialisation of poverty does not always result in a ‘ghetto’. We show instead that the ‘savage sorting’ of winners and losers and the resulting expulsions separate Roma into different levels of (housing) market worthiness. However, this sorting is also shaped by a ‘governance of Gypsy urban areas’ that enables a partial stabilisation of expulsion outcomes. We flesh out these arguments using interviews and observations collected in several Roma ghettos and slum areas from two Transylvanian mid-sized cities in Romania. Our research indicates that the spatialisation of (Roma) poverty is the result of disordering and re-ordering processes, that make it more ruthless, but at the same time politically containable.

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From eviction to evicting: Rethinking the technologies, lives and power sustaining displacement

Cited by 24 publications

References 71 publications

UNRAVELLED HOMES: Forced Evictions and Home Remaking in Jakarta

UNRAVELLED HOMES: Forced Evictions and Home Remaking in Jakarta

The Need for Inter/Subdisciplinary Thinking in Critical Conceptualizations of Displacement

‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania

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