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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

PLAYING WITH PREFIGURATION: Ludic Spaces and Prefigurative Organizing for Children's Right to the Mobile City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Earlier writings on the political importance of play have discussed how it can make players conscious of the possibilities of otherwise worlds. Prefigurative politics has very similar aims, but the discussion between the two has been limited.
JONNE SILONSAARI
wiley   +1 more source

COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source

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