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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese, Chiara Fiscone, Ashraf Kagee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Informality as Philosophy: The Indian Street as Urban Theory

Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA
Why one sees spatial informality as failure or why one does not see as a philosophy? This paper challenges the assumption by proposing an idea that informality as a coherent spatial philosophy in everyday Urban life. While modern planning majorly shaped
Piyush Das, Zahra Yasmoon, Hourakhsh Ahmadnia, A Madhumathi   +3 more
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Becoming resilient: Community‐driven change and the civic capacity index

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the principal features of successful community governance is that it is collaborative and thus dependent on a community's ability to work together. However, there are no valid, comprehensive means to assess a community's capacity to respond to civic challenges in collaborative ways, and that are predictive of community resilience and ...
David MacPhee, David Chrislip, Patti Schmitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Informal urban development in Herat Afghanistan as a product of governance practices and institutional neglect

Discover Cities
Informal urban development in Afghanistan has persisted despite extensive state-led and international urban initiatives during the period 2001–2021. This study examines the expansion and persistence of informal urban development in Herat, focusing on the
Ghulam Farooq Nadeem, Toktam Hanaee, Asadullah Hanif, Jalil Ahmad Zakiri, Shakib Mirzahi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A systematic review of urban informality research from an urbanization crisis context perspective

Journal of Urban Management
Coping with the multifaceted crises of contemporary urbanization necessitates a more com-prehensive understanding of the diverse patterns of urbanization. Among these, urban informality, as an archetypal model of urbanization, has emerged as an important
Xuan Chen, Zhuhui Ding, Chenyu Zhang, Juntao Yang, Lan Yang   +4 more
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Informalité politique, pouvoirs et envers des espaces urbains

L'Espace Politique, 2016
Introductory article of the issue 29 (2016-2) of the journal L’Espace politique entitled "Political Informality, Power and the Other Side of Urban Space"
Sébastien Jacquot, Alexis Sierra, Jérôme Tadié   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Political Meaning of Informal Urbanization

, 2019
Many countries in the Global South are relatively young democracies. The resilience and legitimacy of their political systems rely largely on their ability to integrate and represent millions of citizens who are ‘excluded’ from formal social, political, and economic structures.
Rocco, Roberto (author), van Ballegooijen, J.J. (author)   +1 more
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Essential, Yet Precarious, Mistreated, Sick and Medicalized: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed‐Methods Study on Homecare Aides in Spain

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Homecare aides (HCAs) are professional non‐family caregivers, who support dependent individuals to live at home with dignity; yet in Spain they remain understudied and vulnerable, often facing precarious working conditions. We aimed to characterize HCAs’ employment, living conditions, health, and exposure to workplace violence and ...
Albert Navarro‐Giné, Pedro Ferrer‐Rosende, Maria Feijoo‐Cid, Sergio Salas‐Nicás, Laura Esteve‐Matalí, Valeria Stuardo‐Ávila, María Isabel Fernández‐Cano   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assembling Transit Urban Design in the Global South: Urban Morphology in Relation to Forms of Urbanity and Informality in the Public Space Surrounding Transit Stations

Urban Science, 2022
The imperative to address the challenge of transforming car-dependent cities and promoting sustainable mobilities requires that we engage with the relationships between urban morphology and forms of urbanity in public spaces surrounding transit nodes ...
Nastaran Peimani, Hesam Kamalipour
doaj   +1 more source

Knowing urban informalities [PDF]

Urban Studies, 2018
How do Anglophone urban scholars know urban informalities? This article reviews three dominant ways of knowing urban informality, noting that, despite the profoundly rich insights they each provide, two critiques of the overall concept endure. These are that the concept is often imprecise, and that the contribution to knowing ‘the urban’ more generally
Colin Marx, Emily Kelling
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