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The invention of the favela
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ISBN: 9798890845924 1469650002 1469649993 9781469649993 9781469650005 9781469649979 1469649977 9781469649986 1469649985 Year: 2020 Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press,

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Licia do Prado Valladares's classic anthropological study of Brazil's vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally establishedand even attractive and exoticrepresentation of poverty. The study traces how the term 'favela' emerged as an analytic category beginning in the mid-1960s, showing how it became the object of immense popular debate and sustained social science research. But the concept of the favela so favored by social scientists is not, Valladares argues, a straightforward reflection of its social reality, and it often obscures more than it reveals.The established representation of favelas undercuts more complex, accurate, and historicized explanations of Brazilian development. It marks and perpetuates favelas as zones of exception rather than as integral to Brazil's modernization over the past century.


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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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Redefining development : resolving complex challenges in developing countries
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ISBN: 1108867847 1108811698 1108870775 1108865232 9781108870771 9781108865234 9781108867849 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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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Demanding Development : The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums
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ISBN: 1108649378 1108622593 1108491936 1108741339 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press,

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India's urban slums exhibit dramatic variation in their access to local public goods and services - paved roads, piped water, trash removal, sewers, and streetlights. Why are some vulnerable communities able to demand and secure development from the state while others fail? Drawing on more than two years of fieldwork in the north Indian cities of Bhopal and Jaipur, Demanding Development accounts for the uneven success of India's slum residents in securing local public goods and services. Auerbach's theory centers on the political organization of slum settlements and the informal slum leaders who spearhead resident efforts to make claims on the state - in particular, those slum leaders who are party workers. He finds striking variation in the extent to which networks of party workers have spread across slum settlements. Demanding Development shows how this variation in the density and partisan distribution of party workers across settlements has powerful consequences for the ability of residents to politically mobilize to improve local conditions.


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L'(in)habitable
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ISBN: 9782919230297 2919230298 Year: 2020 Publisher: Marseille: Éditions Imbernon,

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La collection Habiter. Cahiers transdisciplinaires est centrée autour du thème de l'habiter. Ce thème est abordé dans la pluralité de ses significations, et dans le sens le plus large du terme, avec un accent sur les pratiques, sur les formes temporaires et éphémères, ainsi que sur ce qui est l'inhabituel, le " hors quotidien ". Les questions relatives aux inégalités, aux injustices spatiales et aux vulnérabilités résidentielles sont au coeur de ce projet de réflexion collective. L'originalité de cette collection réside dans sa nature pluridisciplinaire - histoire, sciences sociales, architecture et art -, visant en particulier à associer une approche centrée sur les pratiques individuelles et collectives à la dimension morpho-typologique, avec un regard de longue durée. Organisée en volumes thématiques, la collection se veut un lieu d'expérimentation, accueillant des articles théoriques, aussi bien que des présentations d'expériences de terrain et des " regards " d'artistes sur la thématique abordée.


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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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Billionaire wilderness : the ultra-wealthy and the remaking of the American West
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ISBN: 9780691176673 9780691185811 0691185816 Year: 2020 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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How rich people use nature to enhance their status, find rural salvation, and resolve the complex predicaments in their livesBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face. Justin Farrell spent five years in Teton County, Wyoming, the richest county in the United States, and a community where income inequality is the worst in the nation. He conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews, gaining unprecedented access to tech CEOs, Wall Street financiers, oil magnates, and other prominent figures in business and politics. He also talked with the rural poor who live among the ultra-wealthy and often work for them. The result is a penetrating account of the far-reaching consequences of the massive accrual of wealth, and an eye-opening and sometimes troubling portrait of a changing American West where romanticizing rural poverty and conserving nature can be lucrative—socially as well as economically.Weaving unforgettable storytelling with thought-provoking analysis, Billionaire Wilderness reveals how the ultra-wealthy are buying up the land and leveraging one of the most pristine ecosystems in the world to climb even higher on the socioeconomic ladder. The affluent of Teton County are people burdened by stigmas, guilt, and status anxiety—and they appropriate nature and rural people to create more virtuous and deserving versions of themselves. This incisive and compelling book reveals the hidden connections between wealth concentration and the environment, two of the most pressing and contentious issues of our time.


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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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Billionaire wilderness : the ultra-wealthy and the remaking of the American West
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ISBN: 0691185816 0691176671 0691217122 Year: 2020 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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How rich people use nature to enhance their status, find rural salvation, and resolve the complex predicaments in their livesBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face. Justin Farrell spent five years in Teton County, Wyoming, the richest county in the United States, and a community where income inequality is the worst in the nation. He conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews, gaining unprecedented access to tech CEOs, Wall Street financiers, oil magnates, and other prominent figures in business and politics. He also talked with the rural poor who live among the ultra-wealthy and often work for them. The result is a penetrating account of the far-reaching consequences of the massive accrual of wealth, and an eye-opening and sometimes troubling portrait of a changing American West where romanticizing rural poverty and conserving nature can be lucrative—socially as well as economically.Weaving unforgettable storytelling with thought-provoking analysis, Billionaire Wilderness reveals how the ultra-wealthy are buying up the land and leveraging one of the most pristine ecosystems in the world to climb even higher on the socioeconomic ladder. The affluent of Teton County are people burdened by stigmas, guilt, and status anxiety—and they appropriate nature and rural people to create more virtuous and deserving versions of themselves. This incisive and compelling book reveals the hidden connections between wealth concentration and the environment, two of the most pressing and contentious issues of our time.


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The Campus Color Line
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ISBN: 0691206759 9780691206752 0691206740 0691206767 Year: 2020 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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The remarkable history of how college presidents, through their roles at American colleges and universities, shaped the struggle for racial equalitySome of America’s most pressing civil rights issues—desegregation, equal educational and employment opportunities, housing discrimination, and free speech—have been closely intertwined with higher education institutions. Although it is commonly known that college students and other activists, as well as politicians, actively participated in the fight for and against civil rights in the middle decades of the twentieth century, historical accounts have not adequately focused on the roles that the nation’s college presidents played in the debates concerning racism. Based on archival research conducted at a range of colleges and universities across the United States, The Campus Color Line sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity.Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1968, Eddie Cole shows how college presidents, during a time of violence and unrest, strategically, yet often silently, initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and outside of the educational sphere. With courage and hope, as well as malice and cruelty, college presidents positioned themselves—sometimes precariously—amid conflicting interests and demands. Black college presidents challenged racist policies as their students demonstrated in the streets against segregation, while presidents of major universities lobbied for urban renewal programs that displaced black communities near campus. Some presidents amended campus speech practices to accommodate white supremacist speakers, even as other academic leaders developed the nation’s first affirmative action programs in higher education.The Campus Color Line illuminates how the legacy of academic leaders’ actions continues to influence the unfinished struggle for black freedom and racial equity in education and beyond.

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African Americans --- College presidents --- College integration --- Racism in higher education --- Discrimination in higher education --- Higher education and state --- Civil rights movements --- Race relations. --- Education, Higher --- Integration, Racial --- Race problems --- Race question --- Relations, Race --- Ethnology --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Racism --- College desegregation --- Desegregation in higher education --- Integration in higher education --- School integration --- Universities and colleges --- Presidents, College --- University presidents --- College administrators --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Black people --- Education (Higher) --- History --- Civil rights --- History. --- Administration --- United States --- Race relations --- Aldon Morris. --- Black Freedom Movement. --- Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century. --- Civil Rights Movement. --- Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. --- Clayborne Carson. --- Deep South universities. --- Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s. --- HBCU presidents. --- HBCU. --- Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the late 1960s. --- Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses. --- Ibram H. Rogers. --- Ibram X. Kendi. --- In Stuggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. --- James Anderson. --- Jeffrey Turner. --- Jelani Favors. --- Jerome Karabel. --- LaDale Winling. --- Martha Biondi. --- Noliwe Rooks. --- Peter Wallenstein. --- Robert Cohen. --- Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism. --- Sitting In and Speaking Out: Student Movements in the American South. --- Stefan M. Bradley. --- The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstruction of Higher Eduction. --- The Black Revolution on Campus. --- The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admissions and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. --- The Education of Blacks in the South. --- The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools. --- The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. --- Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League. --- Vanessa Siddle Walker. --- White Money/Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race and Higher Education. --- William Chafe. --- academic freedom. --- affirmative action. --- black colleges. --- black secret networks. --- black slums. --- civil rights. --- college presidents. --- college rankings. --- colleges. --- curricula decisions. --- desegregation. --- diversity without inclusion. --- free speech protections. --- free speech. --- gentrification. --- higher education. --- history education. --- history. --- housing discrimination. --- housing policies. --- integration. --- leadership. --- liberal bastion. --- race. --- racial diversity. --- racial inequality. --- racial violence. --- racism. --- segregation. --- segregationists. --- student activism. --- universities. --- urban renewal. --- urban universities. --- white campuses. --- white supremacists. --- white supremacy.

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