Urban Space and Exclusion in Asia

Harms, Erik

doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-100208

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“…The gulf is between the centre of the city, with its access to trunk infrastructure, and the ever-expanding ger districts, which exist beyond this infrastructural reach. The mortgage scheme -driven by its strict employment record requirements, plus its hefty required deposit -has simultaneously acted as a form of inclusion for some and exclusion for others (Harms 2016b).…”

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Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia

Plueckhahn¹

2020

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List of Figures vi Preface viii Acknowledgements xii A Note on Orthography xv Introduction: Dynamic Ownership and Urban Futures 1 1. Productive Circulations -Tracing the City through Forms of Housing Finance 27 2. The Making of Public and Private in a Redevelopment Zone 55 3. Atmospheres of Tension in a Landscape of Change 80 4. The Possibilities of Possession -Exploring Ezemshil 5. Seeking Quality Conclusion: Making the City Visible References Index vi List of Figures Introduction: Dynamic Ownership and Urban Futures Cities are fertile sites, not for following an established pathway or master blueprint, but for a plethora of situated experiments that reinvent what urban norms can count as 'global'.

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Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia

Plueckhahn¹

2020

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“…As Erik Harms (, 54) notes, civility—“ideas about urban order, propriety, modern dispositions, or rule‐oriented behavior”—is a ubiquitous tool of displacement and exclusion in Asian cities (also see Zhang ). This was no less true at Icep during my research period in 2015 and 2016.…”

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Urban Settler Colonialism: Policing and Displacing Indigeneity in Taipei, Taiwan

Sugimoto

2019

City & Society

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This article argues that colonialism needs to be explicitly foregrounded in analyses of urban processes in settler colonial cities. Urban settler colonialism is an ongoing process that affects urban indigenous subjects, a force that builds on the longue durée of settler colonialism that has dispossessed them for centuries. My article draws on ethnographic research conducted with a group of indigenous Pangcah/Amis people who have migrated to the Taipei region in Taiwan over the last forty years. While paying attention to the long history of settler colonialism on the island and specifically in the Taipei region-the erasure of indigenous Ketagalan heritage in northern Taiwan, indigenous land dispossession in rural villages, and a consequent post-WWII influx of indigenous people into Taipei, and the displacement of urban indigenous squattersettlements since the 1990s-I will ethnographically focus on a group of indigenous public housing residents who have continued to face urban settler colonialism. I discuss how they have negotiated with surveillance and policing from their on-site housing management team, charges of incivility from Han state agents and neighbors, and displacement from urban redevelopment.

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“…There is no public consultation in this process, with local populations informed about a plan after it is officially approved. However, as explained by Lào Cai-based urban planners during interviews, provincial government officials can ‘mildly modify’ the implementation of such plans, although this is often based on ‘who one knows on brown envelopes’ (interviews, 2017; see also Harms, 2016). It is also common knowledge in Vietnam that if one is aware of upcoming urban plans, one can make sizable profits from land deals, as occurred before the 2008 expansion of Hanoi (Labbé and Musil, 2011; PADDI, 2012).…”

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A small upland city gets a big make-over: Local responses to state ‘modernity’ plans for Lào Cai, Vietnam

Henein¹,

Pham

Turner

2019

Urban Studies

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Since 1986, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has undergone tremendous upheavals in urban growth, city planning and market integration. Yet the complex transformations underway in small cities and towns, especially those in uplands regions, and their impacts on residents’ livelihoods, have been relatively ignored to date in the academic literature. Drawing on small cities and everyday politics concepts, we examine the contested relationships between a socialist state bent on completing a major urban make-over for an upland small city, and the reactions and strategies of local residents. From its historical roots as a small border trading post and colonial garrison town in the late 1800s, Lào Cai has now grown to be a key node on the Greater Mekong Sub Regions’ Eastern Corridor. Urban planning has taken a distinctively ‘modern’ turn since the early 1990s, and the contemporary city reflects a curious blend of socialist urban planning ideals, state visions of modernity and the everyday realities of the local population. Great efforts are being made by city officials and developers to copy the urban forms of Vietnam’s large low-land cities, while concurrently ignoring many of the basic needs of the local population, revealing sharp inequalities. Nonetheless, residents are subtly pushing back against the state’s plans via a range of strategies that also highlight the nuances of inhabiting a small upland city.

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Urban Space and Exclusion in Asia

Cited by 21 publications

References 108 publications

Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia

Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia

Urban Settler Colonialism: Policing and Displacing Indigeneity in Taipei, Taiwan

A small upland city gets a big make-over: Local responses to state ‘modernity’ plans for Lào Cai, Vietnam

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