Poor people versus the state and capital: anatomy of a successful community mobilization for housing in Mexico City

Eckstein, Susan

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.1990.tb00672.x

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“…As many studies of third-world low income point out, these struggles have animated (and still encourage) class and/or community action in many settings and have won important material gains (sewage, electricity, water, schools, streets etc.) (see, for example, Kowarick, 1988 for Sao Paulo;Eckstein 1990a;1990b for Mexico City; Merklein, 1991 andGrillo et. al., 1995 for Buenos Aires; Gay, 1994 for Rio de Janeiro;and Burgwald, 1996 for Quito.…”

Section: The Bronx and The Wild Westmentioning

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‘This is a lot like the Bronx, isn’t it?’ Lived experiences of marginality in an Argentine slum

Auyero

1999

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Based on life-stories, in-depth interviews and informal conversations, this article focuses on the lived experiences of the inhabitants of a slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first part of the article explores the political-economic context of deepening marginalization of the slum population in contemporary Argentina, paying special attention to the mutually reinforcing processes of massification of under- and unemployment, impoverishment and state retrenchment. The second part of the article analyses the impact of such increasing marginalization on the lived experiences of slum-dwellers in Villa Paraiso. In particular, it focuses on (a) the dominant antagonisms that divide the residents of this destitute neighbourhood; and (b) the feeling of social isolation and abandonment that pervades much of the reality of slum-dwellers. The article finds some experiential similarities between slum-dwellers in Argentina and residents of other enclaves of urban poverty in advanced societies. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1999.

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Section: The Bronx and The Wild Westmentioning

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‘This is a lot like the Bronx, isn’t it?’ Lived experiences of marginality in an Argentine slum

Auyero

1999

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Our cases show that effective and sustained resistance movements, especially when joining forces with supralocal organisations, can challenge these top-down impositions and bring about important gains (see also Eckstein, 1990). Yet, as Castells argues, movements for collective consumption goods in low-income communities tend to be fragile and short-lived, due to important structural impediments to movement-building (Castells, 1983).…”

Section: Question Of Resistance: Property and Violence As Threats To mentioning

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‘Urban Transformation’ as State-led Property Transfer: An Analysis of Two Cases of Urban Renewal in Istanbul

2010

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“…But it also entails a move away from the deal‐making and clientelist politics that have largely maintained low‐ and working‐class districts within the city as domains that circumvent strict adherence to many aspects of formal regulatory structure. While such politics did not enable low‐income and working‐class residents to enhance their long‐term possibilities in a changing urban system as a whole, it did to a large extent open up flexible patterns of adaptation (Cocquery‐Vidrovitch, 1991; Eckstein, 2000; Kudva, 2009).…”

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Securing the Majority: Living through Uncertainty in Jakarta

Simone

Rao

2011

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Abstracti jur_1028 315..335Drawing on research in Jakarta, this article reconsiders the importance of heterogeneous economic practices in the remaking of central-city districts in ways that provide ongoing platforms of residence and operation for residents from wide-ranging walks of life. The emphasis on good governance and rights-based discourses have sometimes occluded the operations of urban real economies that, even if waning in the face of the proliferation of mega-developments, constitute the critical capacity of the majority of urban residents' efforts to secure a viable place in the city.Governor Fauzi Bowo stated Monday that he refused to totally revise the 2030 Jakarta spatial planning draft as requested by a coalition of concerned citizens, who are advocating greater public participation in their city's future. Fauzi said he would only listen to recommendations of the coalition on the condition that it represented the voice of the majority of Jakartans.Jakarta Post, 23 March 2010 Questions of urbanism in the global SouthWhat are cities becoming across the global South? Such an overarching question has been the subject of many contentions. These contentions attempt to enrol the day-to-day urban realities as evidence of particular developmental trends, a continuously emerging architecture of extensive globalized articulation, or a stretching of the parameters through which urbanization is to be considered. As cities are the product of efforts that assemble and intersect spaces, people, things and time, questions about whose efforts count and what impact they have are critical aspects of urban life. Who has the right to operate, how, and where? What are the conditions that enable or preclude residents of cities to experience themselves as enjoined, and what practices and powers are deployed to produce commonality and distinction? If capital is the means through which specific densities among persons, materials and spaces are constructed, how do its uneven, spatially selective and experimental dispositions intersect with their various 'reworkings' and appropriations by peoples variously constituted as populations, citizens, denizens and networks?In light of such questions, what do the histories and positions of cities in the global South say about the urbanities one might imagine and bring to fruition? From the elaboration of de-centered ordinary cities to subaltern urbanisms to urban forms consonant to emerging economic powers and to dispersed and fractured regions, there have once again been substantial attempts to theorize and document frameworks that emphasize both the specificity of Southern urban experiences and ways of thinking about

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Poor people versus the state and capital: anatomy of a successful community mobilization for housing in Mexico City

Cited by 26 publications

References 10 publications

‘This is a lot like the Bronx, isn’t it?’ Lived experiences of marginality in an Argentine slum

‘This is a lot like the Bronx, isn’t it?’ Lived experiences of marginality in an Argentine slum

‘Urban Transformation’ as State-led Property Transfer: An Analysis of Two Cases of Urban Renewal in Istanbul

Securing the Majority: Living through Uncertainty in Jakarta

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