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Les femmes dans le nom des rues bruxelloises. Topographie d’une minorisation
Brussels Studies, 2021 The article proposes an examination of odonyms in Brussels, i.e. the names of its streets, through the prism of gender. After a systematic survey of street names and the characteristics of the female figures honoured – which reveals a glaring imbalance ...
Nouria Ouali +7 more
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Life-Affirmative Struggles for Home Across Borders
Radical Housing Journal, 2023 Issue 5.1 of the Radical Housing Journal (RHJ) examines the current state of struggles for housing and home amidst capital-accumulation-induced urban restructuring worldwide. The authors discuss the enduring impact of settler colonialism on land
Ana Vilenica +8 more
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Rethinking mobility at the urban-transportation-geography nexus [PDF]
, 2015 Building on the main sections of the book, this concluding chapter identifies four thematic areas for future research into the urban-transportation-geography nexus as follows: (1) the everyday experience of transport and mobility in the “ordinary city”; (
Jonas, Andrew E.G.
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Migrants and Urban Rights: Politics of Xenophobia in South African Cities
L'Espace Politique, 2009 In recent years there has been some critical intellectual reflections about who has rights to the city, and how such rights are realised. As the rights based discourse gains momentum, groups that have been previously excluded from participating in the ...
Brij Maharaj
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Struggles to remain in Kigali’s “unplanned” settlements: the case of Bannyahe [PDF]
, 2020 Examining the precarious status of informal settlements in Kigali at a time of large-scale planning-induced expropriation, this article considers urban contestation in the context of the city’s changing spatial-legal regime.
Corburn, J, Esmail, S
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Revista de Administração Pública, 2018 The argument of this essay is that Lefebvre’s writings contain relevant contributions to understand the contemporary phenomenon of neoliberal urbanism and, at the same time, his politics of the possible can contribute to explain the restless urban ...
Maria Ceci Misoczky +1 more
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Housing, the hyper-precarization of asylum seekers and the contested politics of welcome on Tyneside [PDF]
, 2020 This paper analyses the role of housing in shaping the contested politics of welcome in the North East of England. It argues that changes to state provision of asylum seeker housing and the introduction of new legislation to create a hostile internalised
Cassidy, Kathryn
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Radical Housing Journal, 2023 In recent years, housing movements and their activists have gained more prominence as housing has become increasingly unaffordable. In Brazil, land occupations, a tool for housing access, are mainly composed of Black women—the most vulnerable ...
Thalles Vichiato Breda
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Brussels StudiesFollowing a decision by the municipal council, the City of Brussels’ appearance became resolutely historic once again as of 1960. Many private buildings in the historic centre were adorned with old-fashioned facades.
Dominik Scholz
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Caste at the City’s Edge: Land Struggles in Peri-urban Bengaluru
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2021 Building on recent literature that explores how the social logics of older agrarian formations are refracted in processes of urbanization, the paper foregrounds the significance of caste in rapidly changing peri-urban spaces.
Carol Upadhya, Sachinkumar Rathod
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