Remaking Urban Socialities

Simone, Abdou Maliq

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“…3 Characteristic of these so-called alternatives is the generalized and everyday uncertainty and precarity of informal, temporary, and illegal-housing arrangements. 4 This article examines how poor urban residents engage in home-making practices in the context of urban housing and precarity. Here, urban precarity refers specifically to the social, political, and structurally produced conditions of long-term unpredictability, marginality, and confusion about present and future housing opportunities, while recognizing the capacity of agency through routine practices of negotiation and resistance.…”

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Precarious city: home-making and eviction in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Muñoz

2017

cultural geographies

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This article expands on current conceptualizations and applications of precarity by exploring the everyday socio-spatial complexities of migrant squatters living in informal hotels in the center of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through ethnographic methods, this research investigates squatters’ practices of negotiating access to shared domestic spaces and resources, while experiencing long-term waiting for eviction from their home and potentially from the city center. Employing a cultural geographies approach, this work is concerned with understanding the ways in which precarity is routinely experienced in the micro-spaces of everyday life. Precarity is examined in its temporal and spatial manifestations, with particular emphasis on gendered experiences and home-making practices. Moving through daily spaces and routine situations, I document how precarity is embedded in the mundane tasks of the domestic, and as a result, unevenly impacts women whose traditional roles as mothers and caretakers mean that they are often at the fore of place-making practices and responsibilities.

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Precarious city: home-making and eviction in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Muñoz

2017

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“…Not least, Jacobs points to another way in which the city itself is being rethought across the continent. Here his works dovetails with a much older body of research on farming in West African cities (again linked to the importance of hometown connections among city dwellers, urban villages and the constant traffic in produce between town and country) and with a more recent field of work rethinking the very nature of the postcolonial city, not just in terms of the so-called linear proletarianization thesis but also in terms of the morphology and spatial forms of the city, and the prismatic forms of consciousness which emerge from it (Simone 2008;Mbembé and Nuttall 2004).…”

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Agrarian Marxism

Levien¹,

Watts²,

Hairong³

2018

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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The purpose of this special issue is to advance heterodox reconstructions of agrarian Marxism on the occasion of Marx's 200th birth anniversary. Scholarship on the origins of agrarian capitalism and the contrasts between agrarian and industrial capitalism have been a vital part of debates over and within Marxism for more than a century and have been central to the social scientific and historical understandings of the modern world system. At the same time, since the seminal debates associated with the 'classical agrarian question,' agrarian studies is marked by durable tensions and polarities in theoretical approach. While Marxists have long criticized 'populists' for ignoring capitalism and class, populists have charged Marxists with historical determinism. It is the premise of this special issue that much of this debate has reached something of an impasse. This is in part because new empirical work addressing the complex contemporary patterns and conjunctures of global agrarian capitalism, and because new and generative theoretical reconstructions of Marxism itself, offer exciting new horizons. Contributions to this special issue help point the way beyond this impasse, and illustrate that agrarian Marxism remains a dynamic theoretical program that offers powerful insights into agrarian change and politics in the twentyfirst century.

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Negotiating marginalities: right to water in Delhi

Roy

2013

Urban Water Journal

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Remaking Urban Socialities

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Precarious city: home-making and eviction in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Precarious city: home-making and eviction in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Agrarian Marxism

Negotiating marginalities: right to water in Delhi

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