Slumming about

Jones, Gareth A.

doi:10.1080/13604813.2011.609017

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“…As Jones (2011) states, even in apparently more progressive interventions, slums retain the negative connotation of a space of dirt, disease, toxicity and danger. Through a multiplicity of media, we are invited to be 'slummers', an endeavour in which we are expected to be either shocked by the scenes of misery, dirt and disease or to empathise with the slum dwellers fate (Jones 2011). From another viewpoint, Gilbert (2007) has argued that the word slum is "dangerous because it confuses the physical problem of poor housing with the characteristics of the people living there".…”

Section: Methods: Comparing Structural Featuresmentioning

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The Pattern Making of Mega-Slums on Semantics in Slum Urban Cultures

Zappulla

Suau

Fikfak

2014

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism

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Mega-slums are dynamic laboratories for urban pattern making. Instead of surveying about stable urban symbols represented by formal orders and regular geometries, this study explores the semantic meaning of informal urbanism associated with chaos or randomness and often ignored by critique and conventions. Slums are forms of ‘instant urbanity’ that underscore alternative ways of self-organisation, which include bottom-up strategies, autonomous urban dynamics and spatial activation by remaking. Are slum patterns representing a lack of symbolism or, on contrary, rich, complex, and fluid urban idioms? Urban informality without planning offers immense opportunities to investigate resilient urban forms and languages as complex systems throughout self-ruled structures. Slums are not only the result of urban economic asymmetries and social marginalisation but the elementary construction of survival urbanism, a randomised, agile and transformative pattern system. Slum making is a form of subsistence urbanity that constructs transitory, elusive or spontaneous geometries. They differ in sizes, magnitudes and geometries regarding cultural, climatic and topographic conditions. Slums are unstable systems in continuous transformation. This essay questions the stigmatisation of informalised urban patterns as ‘other’ unclassified codes by analysing a selection of twenty mega-slums in the Americas, Africa and Asia regarding semantics, urban and geometrical meanings. Their urban tissues contain various symbols that activate the every-day production of spaces. They can be visible or invisible; passive or active; and formal or informal. A taxonomic tree of slums was developed to compare and map slum regions to describe similarities and differences among the selected case studies. From this analysis, a profound discourse appeared between informal settlements: tissue-patterns at macro level and cell-patterns in micro urbanisation. Does the macro pattern inform the micro, or vice versa?

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Section: Methods: Comparing Structural Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Pattern Making of Mega-Slums on Semantics in Slum Urban Cultures

Zappulla

Suau

Fikfak

2014

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism

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“…Second, Tourism has a crucial role for the development and growth of marginal economies, like those in informal urban areas, where there is a lack of professional jobs that generate high incomes; therefore, visitors transform into a source of economic input for the community (Cocola-Gant, 2018). This economic transformation renders opportunities for citizen empowerment, the development of local economy, and entrepreneurship to alleviate poverty (Burgold et al, 2013;Jones, 2011).…”

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Eficacia de la gobernanza en la regeneración sustentable de barrios marginales: Marco de evaluación para una gobernanza eficaz en la regeneración de barrios marginales mediante el turismo. Los casos de Medellín, Colombia y Busan, Corea del Sur

Escalona

2022

Rev. urban.

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Comprender el papel significativo de la gobernanza en los proyectos de mejoramiento de barrios marginales a través del proceso de turistificación es un requisito crucial para garantizar la transición de dichas áreas hacia la sostenibilidad. A través del análisis de políticas y herramientas de evaluación relacionadas con el mejoramiento de los barrios marginales, empleando para ello acciones de gobernanza, se desarrolló un marco de evaluación estructurado en tres áreas principales: social, económica y ambiental. Se presentan 18 objetivos centrales, los cuales se encuentran distribuidos en las fases de planificación e implementación, y posimplementación. Estos objetivos buscan promover una gobernanza para la regeneración sostenible de barriadas implementando el turismo. La aplicación de dicho marco evaluativo se realizó mediante un análisis de estudios de caso, seleccionando dos modelos ejemplares de esta práctica, ubicados en Corea del Sur (Gamcheon cultural village) y Colombia (Comuna 13). Se encontró como resultado que una gobernanza exitosa del turismo promueve nuevas redes interacción socioeconómicas, y puede reconfigurar el estigma de estas áreas. Por el contrario, se evidenció que en dichos procesos existe una deficiencia en la gestión turística durante la fase de posimplementación, así como una limitación en cuanto a la sostenibilidad de los proyectos a largo plazo. Finalmente, con base a los resultados se establecen direcciones a tomar en cuenta para la gobernanza enfocada en el desempeño duradero de la turificación de los barrios marginales.

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“…One the right are the words ‘Justice for Aldrin Castillo’ printed in big bold letters. Nanette’s strategy challenges the ‘dystopian master trope’ of how low-income families experience the drug war (Jones 2011 , p. 698). Instead of hiding in fear, Nanette is calling for attention.…”

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Asserting disadvantaged communities’ deliberative agency in a media-saturated society

Curato

2020

Theor Soc

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This article investigates how communities experiencing poverty can exercise their deliberative agency in a media-saturated society. While empirical research on deliberative democracy tends to focus on the role of mini-publics in giving low-income households the opportunity in small-scale, carefully designed forums to characterise, justify, and reflect on their views, such conception of deliberative agency gets lost in the picture once deliberative theory begins thinking in systemic terms. This article proposes a remedy to this theoretical and analytical gap by characterising the hypermediated character of the deliberative system and identifying possibilities for communities experiencing poverty to maximise the affordances of digital media for them to make an appearance in the public sphere, speak in their own voice, and carry the embodied and storied character of their arguments. I present two illustrative cases drawing on the experiences of families with low income directly affected by the bloody war on drugs in the Philippines who utilise photojournalism and online music streaming to break in the public sphere and engage in systemic deliberations about the drug war. These examples demonstrate how communities experiencing poverty express their deliberative agency amidst fear, trauma and deprivation and democratise a media-saturated deliberative system under an increasingly authoritarian regime. Overall, this article hopes to strengthen the link between normative media studies and democratic theory and offering possibilities for reforming the public sphere that recognises the poor’s deliberative agency.

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Slumming about

Cited by 20 publications

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The Pattern Making of Mega-Slums on Semantics in Slum Urban Cultures

The Pattern Making of Mega-Slums on Semantics in Slum Urban Cultures

Eficacia de la gobernanza en la regeneración sustentable de barrios marginales: Marco de evaluación para una gobernanza eficaz en la regeneración de barrios marginales mediante el turismo. Los casos de Medellín, Colombia y Busan, Corea del Sur

Asserting disadvantaged communities’ deliberative agency in a media-saturated society

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