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FORCE AND ASPIRATION: Mobility and Class Formation on the Peripheries of Addis Ababa

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While the emergence of social class is usually associated with relations of production or patterns of consumption, this article argues for centring mobility in class analysis, especially within rapidly growing cities. It focuses on the peripheries of Addis Ababa, where Africa's most remarkable state‐led housing programme has produced wrenching
Tom Goodfellow   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

SURFACE TENSIONS: Roads, Potholes and the Embodied Politics of Driving in Urban India

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I draw on the embodied experience of driving into potholes and on bumpy roads in Hyderabad to show how pockmarked roads become a terrain on which political sensibilities are shaped. Drawing on ethnographic material collected over six years, I analyze how potholes shape driving dispositions in a city that is attempting to brand ...
Sneha Annavarapu
wiley   +1 more source

THE CONSTRUCTION STATE UNBOUND? Struggles over the Seoul Metropolitan Region's Greenbelt in an Era of Planetary Urbanization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article builds on recent interventions into the study of planetary urbanization that call for greater interaction with the multiple social struggles and standpoints that embed this process. To do so, we advocate for academic engagement between planetary urbanization and the concept of the ‘construction state’. This is a term used in Japan
Laam Hae, Jamie Doucette
wiley   +1 more source

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