To Whom Does the City Belong? Obstacles to Right to the City for the Urban Poor in Bangladesh

Lata, Lutfun Nahar

doi:10.1080/00472336.2020.1791934

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“…The right to participation maintains that urban residents should play a central role in any 1. Introduction decision that contributes to the production of urban space (Nahar Lata, 2021;Pindell, 2006). On this point, what is promising about the notion is not the prospect of an increase in the number of formal participants, but rather "the formation of voices, of political subjectivization it generates in and around urban space" (Dikeç, 2002, p. 96).…”

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El derecho a la ciudad de las personas vulnerables. Perspectivas del caso de Estambul

Waite

2023

Revista Estoa

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A partir de una revisión de conceptos y críticas principales y complementarias del derecho a la ciudad, este estudio pretende llenar los vacíos en la literatura sobre el derecho a la ciudad de los individuos y grupos vulnerables que enfrentan diversas formas de exclusión socio-espacial en la vida cotidiana. Argumenta que los problemas relacionados con el derecho a la ciudad se pueden abordar mejor analizando las experiencias de la vida real de los habitantes urbanos vulnerables. Dicho análisis, basado en el caso de Estambul, se desarrolló a través de 48 entrevistas realizadas a habitantes de la ciudad que se identificaron con una o varias categorías de vulnerabilidad sociológica. A partir de los relatos de los encuestados sobre las relaciones sociales que establecen en el espacio público, el artículo concluye con una discusión basada en la literatura sobre cómo lograr y mantener con éxito el derecho a la ciudad.

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Section: Lefebvre's Right To the City And The Complementary Rights To...mentioning

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El derecho a la ciudad de las personas vulnerables. Perspectivas del caso de Estambul

Waite

2023

Revista Estoa

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“…Developing Southern expressions of the right to the city is still in the research phase; consequently, a range of reflections informed by empirical work are offered (Lata, 2021; Ren and Weinstein, 2012; Wissink, 2015) to unpack the magnitude of three interlocking modes of exclusion: physical, social and political; and the ways in which they are challenged by people and for people in the Southern cities. The urban resistance and the struggles to claim the right to the city in the Global South, in many cases, diverge from the established framings in the North (Murray, 2012) and yet are intertwined with the broader calls for urban policy and practice to integrate divided spaces and populations to build inclusive cities (Parnell and Pieterse, 2010; Zerah et al, 2011).…”

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The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda

Alizadeh

Prasad

2023

Urban Studies

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Urban research has increasingly embraced the Global South, as recent critical scholarship continues opening to Southern cities, scholars and ideas generated from the South. Here, we (the authors, two women of the Global South) think strategically about ‘the Southern urban critique’, ‘the right to the city’ and ‘smart cities’– as well as some limitations of doing so. Intrigued by the fast pace of smart city development across the Global South, and informed by the ongoing critical debates and increasing empirical work focused on the unfolding of ‘smart’ in the Southern cities, we put forward a research agenda ‘the right to the smart city in the Global South’. Through three lenses of expose, propose and politicise this research agenda articulates the smart city shortcomings from a Southern critical perspective to elevate the ongoing empirical studies on the subject, to shed light on the gaps in knowledge, and to produce a normative alternative vision for ‘just smart city’. Our challenge to readers is to help create such smart cities, to engage with and reflect on the arguments in this positioning piece, and then complement them with further normative, future-oriented work – informed by empirical knowledge – to fully map out the particularities of an alternative Southern smart city, to inform planning and policymaking for just smart cities, and to enact the right to the smart city in the Global South.

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“…Nearly 300,000 street vendors use public spaces to operate businesses in Dhaka (Lata, 2021a). I selected Sattola slum as a case study as most residents were engaged in some form of informal economic activities using public space.…”

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“…These public officials, especially police, often ‘played with the rules’ to earn an extra income; however, police usually did not collect money from street traders. In most cases, a middleman who is known as lineman collects money from vendors and later it is distributed among police, police station and local political leaders (Lata, 2021a). This is how state actors extort informal workers using their institutional power illegally.…”

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The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka

Lata

2022

Current Sociology

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Access to public space for earning livelihoods is important for street vendors in global south cities. However, due to continuous population growth and the demand for lands by the real estate development sector, pressure on land is very high in the global south. Consequently, global south cities such as Dhaka provide ‘no place’ for its poor migrant citizens. Yet, the urban poor are able to appropriate public space for livelihoods. Drawing on a case study of Sattola slum in Dhaka, this article investigates how the urban poor access to public space for livelihoods and construct counter-spaces by breaking the planned order of the city. This article argues that the urban poor are able to construct counter-spaces with the tacit support of translocal social networks as well as with the support of a range of state and non-state powerful actors who are compromised by the benefits and profits they extract from vendors. This article draws on qualitative data generated through in-depth interviews with 94 informal workers and 37 key informants. This article contributes to urban sociology literature demonstrating that the urban poor are able to construct counter-spaces drawing on a range of everyday tactics and appropriating public space by quietly breaking the planned order of the city.

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To Whom Does the City Belong? Obstacles to Right to the City for the Urban Poor in Bangladesh

Cited by 16 publications

References 63 publications

El derecho a la ciudad de las personas vulnerables. Perspectivas del caso de Estambul

El derecho a la ciudad de las personas vulnerables. Perspectivas del caso de Estambul

The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda

The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka

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