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Urban Marginalities Throughout History [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUAThroughout history, cities have been hubs for the development of new philosophical, cultural, political, economic, andtechnological ideas, thereby enhancing the quality of life for their inhabitants. However, the concentration of populationsand activities in cities coupled with other socio-economic and political factors have engendered significant ...
Besma Bouteche, Hocine Bougdah
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Doing the City from the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Urban Marginality [PDF]
Anthropological Forum, 2019 This special issue focuses on urban marginality in diverse contexts across the world (Africa, Latin America, Arab States and Europe) and proposes anthropological perspectives on contemporary urbani...
Aceska, Ana +2 more
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Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins
Latin American Research Review, 2022 This article examines the clandestine connections between participants in the illicit drug trade and members of state security forces to understand how they impact everyday understandings of the law. Drawing on a unique combination of long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a poor, high-crime district in Argentina and wiretapped conversations drawn from a ...
Katherine Sobering, Javier Auyero
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Fragment urbanism: Politics at the margins of the city [PDF]
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2018 Fragmentation is a keyword in the history of critical urban thought. Yet the products of fragmentation – the fragments themselves – tend to receive less attention. In this paper, I develop a politics of urban fragments as a contribution to debates both in urban theory and in urban poverty and inequality.
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Adrift at the Margins of Urban Society
Urban Affairs Review, 2014 We quantify how social detachment (measured as neither working nor attending school) of low-income African-American and Latino young adults relates to their teen neighborhood conditions. Data come from retrospective surveys of Denver Housing Authority (DHA) households.
Galster, G. C. +2 more
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Photography and Urban Marginality
Visual Anthropology, 2017 In recent years several monographs have appeared in Italy, though even more abroad, as a report of ethnographic research into the everyday life practices of marginal urban social groups; all fall under a disciplinary subfield the author calls “Anthropology of urban marginality.” The authors of these works have increasingly been using technologies other
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Urban Appropriation: Creativity in Marginalization
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015 AbstractThis paper aims to investigate the subtle dialog, or possibly interaction, between the duality of the “formal” and the “informal” in high-density environment. Marginalized people are continuously reinventing their understanding of space and territory in the public domain.
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, 2012 The capacity of cities to respond to the physical, social, economic and environmental reality in order to guarantee sustainability, identity, biophysical integration, social dynamics, mobility, diversity, security and comfort is being challenged.
Sara Doesburg, Paulo Farinha Marques
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From Rural Marginality To Urban Marginality
Apuntes: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 1977 Pocos son los países del tercer mundo en los que no se da un proceso migratorio. La razón es la evidente dependencia de la vida rural con respecto a la vida urbana, la cual reproduce parte de los modelos conductuales (a nivel de relaciones económicas y sociales, cultura, valores, etc.) que caracterizan las relaciones entre los países desarrollados y ...
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Unpacking the concept of urban marginality
, 2015 ZMO Programmatic Texts, no.
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