Urban Claims and the Right to the City (eBook)

Grassroots Perspectives from Salvador da Bahia and London

Julian Walker, Marcos Bau Carvalho, Ilinca Diaconescu (Herausgeber)

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2020
200 Seiten
UCL Press (Verlag)
978-1-78735-566-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how the rights of city dwellers are understood and interpreted in Brazil and the UK.

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Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how contested processes of urban development, and the rights of city dwellers, are understood and interpreted from the perspective of women and men working, in different ways, at the grassroots in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and London, UK. In doing so, it represents the grounded voices of authors whose work and lives mean that they engage, on a daily basis, with issues related to housing and spatial rights, and identity struggles around race, gender, disability, sexuality, citizenship and class.Reivindicacoes Urbanas e o Direito a Cidade investiga como os processos de desenvolvimento urbano em disputa e os direitos de moradores das cidades sao compreendidos e interpretados por mulheres e homens que trabalham, de maneiras diferentes, nas bases populares de Salvador da Bahia, no Brasil, e de Londres, no Reino Unido. Ao faze-lo, o livro representa vozes situadas de autores cujos trabalhos e vidas estao cotidianamente engajados em questoes relacionadas aos direitos a moradia e ao espaco, e em lutas pautadas por identidades de raca, genero, deficiencia, sexualidade, cidadania e classe social.Praise for Urban Claims and the Right to the City'Offers the reader ... similar to what the philosopher Giorgio Agambem has argued for, the need to comprehend the making of subjectivities, powers and capacities for political action within the conditions of the contemporary city. It does this with a light-touch of the editors, allowing for these commentaries to stand independently.'The London Journal 'This bilingual book is several things at once. It's a photography collection, with over 100 vibrant photos documenting the case study cities of Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) and London (UK). It's an interview series, with a few chapters by academics but mostly told through the voices of activists. And it's a research report, which centres but also questions the core concept of the right to the city. ... Urban Claims and the Right to the City is a different kind of academic work, aiming for a different kind of city.'Environment & Urbanization

Autor

lt;p>Ilinca Diaconescu has a background in urban planning and a research and practice focus on community participation in planning and decision making. She has been actively involved in Just Space and is the Policy Officer at London Gypsies and Travellers.

Julian Walker is a social development practitioner, with a background in social anthropology and research interest related to urban spatial rights, gender and social identity. He is an Associate Professor at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit of University College London, where he is the Co-Programme Leader of the MSc Social Development Practice, the Director of the DPU's Training and Advisory Services, and the Director of the DPU's Gender Policy and Planning Programme.

Marcos Bau Carvalho is a filmmaker with a background in architecture and urbanism, and research interests related to democracy and the right to the city. He is a professor at the School of Communication of the Federal University of Bahia, where he is the Coordinator of the Audiovisual Laboratory (LabAV).

Inhalt

CONTENTS

 

Preface

Gabriela Leandro Pereira

Introduction

Marcos Bau Carvalho, Ilinca Diaconescu,
and Julian Walker

 

Lugar Comum, Salvador da Bahia

Ana Fernandes

Just Space, London

Richard Lee

The context of urban struggles in
Salvador

Marcos Bau Carvalho

The policy context for housing and
urban struggles in London

Richard Lee

Centring the margins: knowledge
production and methodology as praxis

Kamna Patel

 

SALVADOR DA BAHIA

Acervo da Laje

José Eduardo Ferreira Santos

The Association of Friends of Gege and
the Residents of Gamboa de Baixo

Ana Cristina da Silva Caminha

Association of Residents and Friends of
the Historic Centre

Jecilda Maria da Cruz Melo

Associacao de Moradores do Loteamento
Nova Republica

Vera Lúcia Machado Teixeira

Art Consciousness Cultural Group

Alex Pereira

Luisa Mahin Occupation

Márcia Amorim Ribeiro and Selma de
Jesus Batista

Gurreira Maria Occupation

Maria Lucianne Lobato Ferreira

 

LONDON

Inclusion London

Ellen Clifford

Latin Elephant

Patria Roman-Velazquez

LGBTQ+ spaces

Ben Walters

London Gypsies and Travellers

Clemmie James

Migrants’ Rights Network

Sofia Roupakia

The Ubele Initiative

Yvonne
Field

Reflections: Multiple visions of the Right to
the City

Alexandre
Apsan Frediani, Barbara Lipietz and Julian Walker

 

 

CONTEÚDO

 

Prefácio

Gabriela Leandro Pereira

Introdução

Marcos Bau Carvalho, Ilinca Diaconescu,
e Julian Walker

 

Lugar Comum, Salvador da Bahia

Ana Fernandes

Just Space, London

Richard Lee

O contexto das lutas urbanas em
Salvador

Marcos Bau Carvalho

O contexto das políticas habitacionais
e das lutas urbanas em Londres

Richard Lee

Centralizando as margens: produção de
conhecimento e metodologia como praxis

Kamna Patel

 

SALVADOR DA BAHIA

Acervo da Laje

José Eduardo Ferreira Santos

Associação Amigos de Gegê dos Moradores
da Gamboa de Baixo

Ana Cristina da Silva Caminha

Associacao de Moradores E Amigos do Centro
Historico (AMACH)

Jecilda Maria da Cruz Melo

Associacao de Moradores do Loteamento
Nova Republica

Vera Lúcia Machado Teixeira

Grupo Cultural Arte Consciente

Alex Pereira

Ocupação Luisa Mahin

Márcia Amorim Ribeiro e Selma de Jesus
Batista

Ocupação Força e Luta Guerreira Maria

Maria Lucianne Lobato Ferreira

 

LONDON

Inclusao Londres

Ellen Clifford

Elefante Latino

Patria Roman-Velazquez

Espaços LGBTQ+

Ben Walters

Ciganos E Viajantes De Londres

Clemmie James

Rede Direito dos Migrantes

Sofia Roupakia

Iniciativa Ubele

Yvonne
Field

Reflexões: As múltiplas visões do ‘Direito à
Cidade’

Alexandre
Apsan Frediani, Barbara Lipietz e Julian Walker

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: activism • Brazil • Citizenship • city planning • Disability • Geography • Housing • Identity • London • Public Policy • Salvador da Bahia • spatial rights • UK • Urban Development • urban studies
• ISBN-10: 1-78735-566-7 / 1787355667
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78735-566-8 / 9781787355668