Placeand Process: Culture, Urban Planning, and Social Exclusion in São Paulo

Sandler, Daniela

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“…This is indicated by recent gentrification research. There is not only a growing literature detailing the upgrading of industrial buildings and 'new-build' gentrification (Davidson and Lees, 2005), but also an emerging and increasingly cited roll-call of work charting gentrifi cation's global spread: from St John's, Antigua (Thomas, 1991), to Puebla (Jones and Varley, 1999), Marrakech (Escher et al, 2001), Istanbul (Potuoglu-Cook, 2006) and São Paulo (Sandler, 2007).…”

Section: The Global Policy-scapes Of Gentrifi Cationmentioning

confidence: 99%

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

2008

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Gentrification has become a global phenomenon over the last fifteen years, and has been understood as an increasingly important strategy within neoliberal policy-making.Focusing on London and Mumbai, this paper details how public policies and planning regimes have been reconfigured and rescaled to facilitate and encourage new property speculation. However, against more generalised and abstract accounts of the neoliberal city, the paper uses its comparative perspective to emphasise the geographically and historically specific manifestations and effects of gentrification processes. By highlighting different forms of state intervention and sharper socio-spatial impacts in Mumbai, the paper challenges the Eurocentric framing of a global spread of gentrification, and argues Mumbai can act as an important source of learning for gentrification research. 2Almost everywhere urban societies . . . seem to be going around in circles: they seem to be strangely slow and maladroit in dealing with the most urgent, material needs which they can well afford to meet -from the elimination of homelessness in London (a relatively small but stubborn problem) to the provision of water taps in the bustees of Bombay. (Glass, 1989, p. 102)

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Section: The Global Policy-scapes Of Gentrifi Cationmentioning

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From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

2008

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“…Indeed much of our human urban Umwelt is constructed with the aim of evoking affects to manage conduct: thus monumental buildings, prisons, parks and public places adorned with statues sought to inculcate civility and civic pride, while the mundane organization of city streets or housing estates often sought to manage different sectors of the population (for examples of this process in major Brazilian cities see Branda˜o, 2006;Caldeira, 2000;Holston, 1989;Sandler, 2007). Not, of course, that they produce the effects that the planners imagine; while strategies for the government of conduct are eternally optimistic, their schemes are congenitally failing (Miller and Rose, 1990: 10).…”

Section: Umweltmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Neuroecosociality: Mental Health in Adversity

Rose

Birk

Manning

2021

Theory, Culture & Society

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Social theory has much to gain from taking up the challenges of conceptualizing ‘mental health’. Such an approach to the stunting of human mental life in conditions of adversity requires us to open up the black box of ‘environment’, and to develop a vitalist biosocial science, informed by and in conversation with the life sciences and the neurosciences. In this paper we draw on both classical and contemporary social theory to begin this task. We explore human inhabitation – how humans inhabit their ‘ecological niches’ – and examine a number of conceptual developments that ‘deconstruct’ the binary distinction between organism and environment. We argue that we must understand the neurological, ecological and social pathways and mechanisms that shape human (mental) life if we are to address the central concerns of our discipline with inequity and injustice as these are inscribed into the bodies and souls of human beings.

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“…Paulista Avenue was built as part of a privileged district in the late 19th century, which consisted of luxury villas and included a semi-submerged restaurant and ballroom (Lima and Pallamin, 2008: 35). The avenue was affected by a significant restructure of the city centre in the middle of the 20th century, as many banks and offices relocated there as the central area around the Luz train station – the so-called old centre of São Paulo – deteriorated (Sandler, 2007: 472). This relocation of offices was a part of the modernist ‘cultural rebirth’ of Paulista (Lima and Pallamin, 2008: 35).…”

Section: Paulista Avenue and The New Rightmentioning

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Occupying Paulista: Housing activism, the new right and the politics of public space during the Brazilian crisis

Albert

2021

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Brazilian society has frequently been described as polarized during the country’s recent political and economic crisis. In 2018, a wave of opposition to the centre-left Workers’ Party culminated in the election of Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist who portrays the political left as a malevolent force in Brazilian society. In this paper I explore this polarization through drawing on ethnographic research with the Homeless Workers’ Movement ( Movimento de Trablhadores Sem-Teto, MTST), a large urban social movement that develops settlements on underutilized land in the city, and a prominent civil society opponent of Bolsonaro. More specifically, I examine a key site of socio-spatial tension in São Paulo, Paulista Avenue, as a new political right came to predominate on the city’s main thoroughfare during the campaign to impeach the Workers’ Party President, Dilma Rousseff. I show how the perceived intolerance of the mobilized right helped to establish new normative codes that regulated the political symbolism which could be displayed in public spaces. Lastly, I consider how the vilification of the MTST in particular and the political left in general by the new right is embedded in broader structures of stigmatization.

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Placeand Process: Culture, Urban Planning, and Social Exclusion in São Paulo

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

Towards Neuroecosociality: Mental Health in Adversity

Occupying Paulista: Housing activism, the new right and the politics of public space during the Brazilian crisis

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