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Politics and Community-Based Research : Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Johannesburg : Wits University Press,

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Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg provides a textured analysis of a contested urban space that will resonate with other contested urban spaces around the world and challenges researchers involved in such spaces to work in creative and politicised ways. This edited collection is built around the experiences of Yeoville Studio, a research initiative based at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Through themed, illustrated stories of the people and places of Yeoville, the book presents a nuanced portrait of the vibrance and complexity of a post-apartheid, peri-central neighbourhood that has often been characterised as a 'slum' in Johannesburg. These narratives are interwoven with theoretical chapters by scholars from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds, reflecting on the empirical experiences of the Studio and examining academic research processes. These chapters unpack the engagement of the Studio in Yeoville, including issues of trust, the need to align policy with lived realities and social needs, the political dimensions of the knowledge produced and the ways in which this knowledge was, and could be used.


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Cities with 'slums' : from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa
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ISBN: 1920541624 Year: 2011 Publisher: Claremont, South Africa : UCT Press,

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"The UN's Millennium Development Target to improve the lives of 100 million 'slum' dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. ... [The book] traces the proliferation of this misunderstanding across several African countries, and explains how current urban policy ... encourages this interpretation. The cases it presents cover a range of conflicts between poor urban residents and the local and national authorities that seek to curtail their 'right to the city'."--Back cover.


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Slums on screen
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ISBN: 1474425933 147442192X 1474406882 1474406874 9781474406871 9781474406864 1474406866 9781474406888 9781474406888 Year: 2016 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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A polycentric approach to the representation of slums in world cinemaNear to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a ‘planet of slums.’ But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen? How have filmmakers engaged historically and across the globe with the social conditions of what is often perceived as the world’s most miserable habitats?Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor Krstic outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our ‘planet of slums’, exploring the way accelerated urbanisation has intersected with an increasingly interconnected global film culture. From Jacob Riis’ How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (2008), the volume provides a number of close readings of films from different historical periods and regions to outline how contemporary film and media practices relate to their past predecessors, demonstrating the way various filmmakers, both north and south of the equator, have repeatedly grappled with, rejected or continuously modified documentary and realist modes to convey life in our ‘planet of slums’.Read the introduction to Slums on Screen for free (pdf)Key FeaturesTraces the global flows of film culture through emphasising the transnational impact of important film movementsFocuses on two important ‘cinematic megacities’ (Rio de Janeiro and Mumbai) to outline how global film cultural currents become modified according to a specific local contextCombines approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies to reconstruct world cinema’s ‘planet of slums’Adds a new perspective on cultural (world cinema) and social (cityward migration) globalisation processes"


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La favela d'un siècle à l'autre
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ISBN: 2735110915 2735119211 Year: 2017 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme,

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La favela, cet envers du décor de la « Cité merveilleuse », a beaucoup contribué à faire de Rio de Janeiro - et plus largement du Brésil - la terre de tous les contrastes. En ouvrant ce livre, le lecteur français pourrait donc à bon droit y voir une invitation au voyage dans un monde qui éveille sa curiosité, mais lui demeure en définitive étranger. Pourtant c'est plus encore au mouvement inverse, de l'exotique au familier, du lointain au proche, que cet ouvrage nous invite. Son propos n'est pas tant d'ajouter une nouvelle pierre à l'édifice déjà impressionnant des connaissances sur les favelas, ni d'en faire la synthèse, que d'en expliciter les conditions sociales de production. Car la favela s'« invente » au fil d'une histoire séculaire qui, du mythe d'origine en passant par le discours scientifique, mène contre toute attente à une consécration culturelle et médiatique. Analysant à la fois cette forme particulière d'habitat populaire et les réseaux d'acteurs et d'institutions qui en ont façonné l'image, Licia Valladares nous offre une contribution originale à l'histoire des sciences sociales brésiliennes, de la Première République à nos jours.


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Comparative approaches to informal housing around the globe
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ISBN: 1787355225 1787355217 Year: 2020 Publisher: London : UCL Press,

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Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing. Providing both methodological reflections and practical examples, they compare informal settlements, unauthorised occupation of flats, illegal housing construction and political squatting in different regions of the world. Subjects covered include squatter settlements in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, squatting activism in Brazil and Spain, right-wing squatting in Germany, planning laws and informality across countries in the Global North, and squatting in post-Second World War UK and Australia.


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Technology of the oppressed : inequity and the digital mundane in favelas of Brazil
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ISBN: 0262368633 0262368625 0262543346 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press,

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"A look at the role technology (ICTs) plays in the lives of Brazilian favela dwellers, which the author explores through his own notion of "mundane technologies""--

Las barriadas de Lima : Historia e interpretación
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ISBN: 2821845995 848930209X Year: 2015 Publisher: Lima : Institut français d’études andines,

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A lo largo de 50 años labarriada se ha constituidoen una modalidad de accesoal suelo y a la viviendapara quienes por alguna uotra razón se han encontradoexcluidos de losmercados convencionales.Vistas en la historiareciente de la ciudad deLima, las barriadas no sonsolamente esteras ni invasiones.Se han convertidoen un elemento constitutivode la estructura mismade la ciudad, tanto ensus aspectos físicos comoculturales.El libro que presentamoscumple dos objetivosigualmente importantes.Por un lado describe laevolución de las barriadasde la ciudad de Lima hastanuestros días, y por otroanaliza la evolución de laspolíticas hacia la vivienday la barriada, así como delos parámetros de interpretaciónde estas realidades.La definición mismade lo que se entiendepor barriada es objeto deun tratamiento que examinapreviamente la evoluciónen su comprensión.El lector encontrará eneste texto un completoensayo de reconstrucción histórica y geográfica delas barriadas en la ciudadde Lima. La informaciónempírica que muestra ylas tendencias que analizaresultan fundamentalespara efectuar un balanceque nos permita entrar delleno a repensar la ciudadde Lima de la década delnoventa.


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Redefining development : resolving complex challenges in a global context
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ISBN: 1009394835 100939486X 1009394843 1009394851 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This volume focuses on the concept phase of the project to resolve complex challenges faced by the communities in the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana. The results are consolidated into a PAR intervention that incorporates results from the process as well as the stakeholders' first strategy, sanitation, and project, latrine and bathhouse installation.


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State of the young child in India
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ISBN: 1003026486 1000054934 0367460181 Year: 2020 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This Report is one of the first comprehensive studies on young children in India. It focuses on children under 6 years of age and presents key aspects of their well-being and development. With the highest number of neonatal, infant and under-5 deaths in the world, there is an urgent need to address issues that continue to affect the young child in India. This volume: Introduces two young child indices aggregating selected indicators to separately track child outcomes and child circumstances. Provides an account of the current situation of the young child in terms of physical and cognitive development, access to care, disadvantaged children and major issues that have led to the continued neglect of this age group. Explores the policy and legal framework, fiscal space and the role and obligations of key stakeholders, including the state, private sector, civil society, media and the family. Highlights key recommendations and action points that can help to improve the ecosystem for early childhood care and development. Drawing on specially commissioned technical background papers, supplemented by extensive field experience of Mobile Creches in childcare, this Report will be of interest to practitioners, policymakers and influencers, think tanks and researchers of public policy, development studies, human rights, sociology and social anthropology, as well as general readers.  The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781003026488, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. .


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Squatters in the capitalist city : housing, justice, and urban politics
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ISBN: 1315719029 1317514742 1317514750 9781315719023 9781317514732 1317514734 9781317514749 9781317514756 9781138856943 1138856940 1138856959 Year: 2020 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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To date, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the disperse research on the squatters' movement in Europe. In Squatters in the Capitalist City, Miguel A. Martnez Lpez presents a critical review of the current research on squatting and of the historical development of the movements in European cities according to their major social, political and spatial dimensions. Comparing cities, contexts, and the achievements of the squatters' movements, this book presents the view that squatting is not simply a set of isolated, illegal and marginal practices, but is a long-lasting urban and transnational movement with significant and broad implications. While intersecting with different housing struggles, squatters face various aspects of urban politics and enhance the content of the movements claiming for a right to the city.' Squatters in the Capitalist City seeks to understand both the socio-spatial and political conditions favourable to the emergence and development of squatting, and the nature of the interactions between squatters, authorities and property owners by discussing the trajectory, features and limitations of squatting as a potential radicalisation of urban democracy.

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