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Slumdog Millionnaire: romancing the slums [PDF]
, 2013 The award-winning successes of Danny Boyle’s rags to riches movie, Slumdog Millionaire (2008), a story that oscillates between the discrepant spaces of the Mumbai slums and the showroom of the ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ quiz, brought an ...
Wilson, Janet M
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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Understanding resilience in urban slums
PlaNext, 2016 Slums are typically perceived as substandard eyesores, corrupt, makeshift, impoverished and crime-ridden. The growing literature on resilience challenged these perceptions, and promoted new debates on their ingenuity and adaptability to overcome external circumstances.
Deepika Andavarapu, Mahyar Arefi
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, 2017 In India, 52 98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to
Bloom, David E. +2 more
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract This article develops the concept of ‘evictability’—the potential of eviction—as a lens for relational comparison of housing insecurity in cities undergoing rapid urbanisation. ‘Evictability’ has advantages over ‘displaceability’, we argue, because it does not meld residents' fears of coerced loss of home with presumptions about ruptured
JoAnn McGregor +4 more
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SLUM AREA AS A TOURIST DESTINATION
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015 The paper considers the issues of emergence and the basic stages of propagation of slums in the world. Slums have become quite common in the 19th – early 20th centuries in the major cities of the industrialized countries of Europe and North America ...
S. S. Maletin
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Projecting Progress: Are Cities on Track to Achieve the SDGs by 2030? [PDF]
, 2016 This report explores for the first time the scale of the challenge for 20 cities across the world to reach selected targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Amina Khan +3 more
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Varieties of Authoritarian Policymaking: Housing Policy Across Dictatorships
Governance, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 2026.ABSTRACT Public policies are expected to vary across regime types, but this association remains inconclusive even when further differentiating within types of authoritarian regimes. Focusing on the theoretical mechanisms behind the expected associations between regime type and policy, I propose a novel framework to analyze policymaking and outputs ...
Emilia Simison
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The welfare effects of slum improvement programs : the case of Mumbai [PDF]
The authors compare the welfare effects of in situ slum upgrading programs with programs that provide slum dwellers with better housing in a new location.
Bento, Antonio +2 more
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Connecting the dots: information visualization and text analysis of the Searchlight Project newsletters [PDF]
, 2012 This report is the product of the Pardee Center’s work on the Searchlight:Visualization and Analysis of Trend Data project sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Gopal, Sucharita, Najam, Adil
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