Introduction to the special section: Urban neoliberalism, strategies for urban struggles, and ‘the right to the city’

Çelik, Ö.; Gough, Jamie

doi:10.1177/0309816814533291

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“…Neoliberal politikalar altında ekonomik ve kentsel yeniden yapılanma ile konut finansal bir araç haline gelmiştir. Baskın özel sektör ve sermaye odaklı üretim, konut üretiminin sektöre dönüşmesine neden olmuştur (Çelik ve Gough, 2014;Marcuse ve Madden, 2016). Finansallaşan ve özelleştirilmiş konut sektörü ise, küresel ekonomiye daha fazla eklemlenmiştir (Forrest, 2008).…”

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İzmir Narlıdere'de Kentsel Dönüşüm Projesinin Uygulanmasında Gecekondu Maliklerinin Karşılaşabileceği Sorunlar

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2021

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Based on the Critical Urban Theory, the study addresses the housing problem of the poor against neoliberal housing production in İzmir. The problem of research is the dispossession of the poor with the rent gap pressure created by neoliberal housing production. The situation of the poor living in the squatter area of the Narlıdere, İkinci İnönü Neighborhood against the neoliberal housing production is examined. The study is methodologically pluralistic and it is based on institutional, spatial, and digital data, quantitative and qualitative field study. The squatter area is surrounded by luxury housing development and was declared as an area under disaster risk according to law number 6306. The transformation project which directly affects the squatter housing residents has been planning. The transformation project is market-based and focuses on spatial transformation. The research findings and Housing Affordability Index calculations which take the housing prices and household income into account show that the urban renewal process will result in slum clearance and residents of the squatters may encounter social, economic, and spatial problems.

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İzmir Narlıdere'de Kentsel Dönüşüm Projesinin Uygulanmasında Gecekondu Maliklerinin Karşılaşabileceği Sorunlar

Uysal

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2021

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“…Many scholars of critical urban theory have argued for the necessity of unity between different struggles as a way of moving toward a more radical urban politics (Blokland et al, 2015; Harvey, 2012; Mayer, 2013; Gough and , 2014). Many more have suggested that the RTC itself can act as a unifying concept (Harvey, 2012; Mitchell and Heynen, 2009; Purcell, 2013).…”

Section: The Contemporary Political Scene: Fragmentationmentioning

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A contribution to building unified movements for the environment: aligning interests, forming alliances

O'Byrne

2020

Human Geography

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The aim of this paper is to outline a way in which research can contribute to the advance of environmental social movements. Current struggles under capitalism are fragmented and localized, which means that creating unity out of fragmented struggles is essential for movements to become more successful. The Right to the City (RTC) as a concept, in its most radical formulation, has this ambition at its core. I examine various attempts from the RTC literature to promote unity, paying particular attention to the use of ideas of justice. In general these attempts are too abstract to be of practical use to existing movements. They do provide useful insight to researchers, by showing the necessity of paying attention to the context that particular movements operate in, but means of formulating advice for movement activists remain vague. I argue that to be more useful to movements, research should and can have something to say about the practical issues movements face, such as, how demands are framed and how to engage with other organizations. I argue that this can be done by bringing together analysis at a number of levels. In the case of movements of labor for the environment, Marxist geographic structural analysis can be combined with political and cultural analysis based on Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and analysis of the dynamics of movement emergence and advance using social movement theory. I argue that such a framework can connect a vision for radical change with the more immediate problems of organizing social movements.

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“…The rights-based approach seems to have the merit of uniting movements of diverse ideological orientations, thanks to its universalizing claim of the right to food, land and seeds. However, a major limitation of this approach is that these rights are permeated by liberal-hegemonic conceptions, which have the potential to ‘incorporate[s] no imperative to look beyond rights to the social relations that make any particular set of rights appear as common moral sense’ and render class agents ‘highly vulnerable to political co-option and the re-absorption of political protest into the goal of a reworked capitalism under the framework of existing liberal rights’ (Neil Smith interviewed in Çelik, 2014, p. 425). This issue adds to the fact that the rights regimes in place ‘are built around the obligations of states, and fail to adequately address the responsibilities of private and transnational actors’ (Claeys, 2014, p. 453).…”

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Theorizing Food Sovereignty from a Class-Analytical Lens: The Case of Agrarian Mobilization in Argentina

Gürcan¹

2018

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journ

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Where do the conceptual ambiguities of food sovereignty lie and how can they be overcome? This article identifies a total of five challenges that underlie these ambiguities, namely the challenge of determining how food sovereignty as a research framework can address the tensions between: (a) state–movement relationships, (b) local–national interests, (c) rural–urban conflicts, (d) individual–collective choices and (e) political intermittence–organizational continuity. Using the method of integrative review, I argue that these challenges could be overcome if the criteria for addressing these tensions were based on the interests of the classes of labour by re-envisioning food sovereignty as a social mobilization outcome that potentially leads to agrarian class formation. A class-analytical approach to food sovereignty is thus deployed to study the case of Argentina in order to contribute to a more in-depth theoretical refinement and resolution of the conceptual ambiguities of food sovereignty.

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Introduction to the special section: Urban neoliberalism, strategies for urban struggles, and ‘the right to the city’

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

İzmir Narlıdere'de Kentsel Dönüşüm Projesinin Uygulanmasında Gecekondu Maliklerinin Karşılaşabileceği Sorunlar

İzmir Narlıdere'de Kentsel Dönüşüm Projesinin Uygulanmasında Gecekondu Maliklerinin Karşılaşabileceği Sorunlar

A contribution to building unified movements for the environment: aligning interests, forming alliances

Theorizing Food Sovereignty from a Class-Analytical Lens: The Case of Agrarian Mobilization in Argentina

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