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Regularizing property rights in Kosovo & elsewhere : COHRE's impact as non-State actor for the international protection of housing, land & property rights
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ISBN: 9783865533401 386553340X Year: 2010 Publisher: Köln : WiKu-Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Stein,


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Dispossession and dissent : immigrants and the struggle for housing in Madrid
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ISBN: 1503627721 Year: 2021 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,

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Since the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe. Housing in particular has become increasingly precarious. In response, many movements now contest the long-held promises and established terms of the private ownership of housing. Immigrant activism has played an important, if understudied, role in such struggles over collective consumption. In Dispossession and Dissent, Sophie Gonick examines the intersection of homeownership and immigrant activism through an analysis of Spain's anti-evictions movement, now a hallmark for housing struggles across the globe. Madrid was the crucible for Spain's urban planning and policy, its millennial economic boom (1998–2008), and its more recent mobilizations in response to crisis. During the boom, the city also experienced rapid, unprecedented immigration. Through extensive archival and ethnographic research, Gonick uncovers the city's histories of homeownership and immigration to demonstrate the pivotal role of Andean immigrants within this movement, as the first to contest dispossession from mortgage-related foreclosures and evictions. Consequently, they forged a potent politics of dissent, which drew upon migratory experiences and indigenous traditions of activism to contest foreclosures and evictions.


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Manufactured Insecurity : Mobile Home Parks and Americans' Tenuous Right to Place
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ISBN: 0520968352 0520295641 0520295668 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Manufactured Insecurity is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents. Drawing on rich ethnographic data collected before, during, and after mobile home park closures and community-wide evictions in Florida and Texas-the two states with the largest mobile home populations-Manufactured Insecurity forces social scientists and policymakers to respond to a fundamental question: how do the poor access and retain secure housing in the face of widespread poverty, deepening inequality, and scarce legal protection? With important contributions to urban sociology, housing studies, planning, and public policy, the book provides a broader understanding of inequality and social welfare in the United States today.


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Black '47 and Beyond : The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory
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ISBN: 0691217920 Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish. Ó Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition. The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.


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Fragmented City: International Mobility and Housing in Spain
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Habitual statements in academic and journalistic fields on the growing inequality of our cities call for multiple reflections. There are numerous indicators of inequality, and territorial specificities give rise to important and subtle differences. What is less debatable is the spatial expansion of inequality (from more outlying, poorer countries to the most developed ones) and its generalization on all scales (from rural to urban areas, and from large metropolises to small cities). Mobility and housing lie at the root of many of these processes, which are represented by phenomena that are often interconnected, such as gentrification and the elite social classes; impoverishment and immigrants in search of work; and segregation and refugees; among many others. In this book, we try to offer a Spanish-based vision of what we call urban geographies in transition—that is, urban geographies in which the key stages, for the purpose of analysis, are the real estate bubble (1996–2007), the subsequent crisis (2008–2013), and the ensuing recovery (2014–2020), without overlooking the impact of the current COVID-19 crisis on the configuration of a new spatial order in cities.


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Fragmented City: International Mobility and Housing in Spain
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Habitual statements in academic and journalistic fields on the growing inequality of our cities call for multiple reflections. There are numerous indicators of inequality, and territorial specificities give rise to important and subtle differences. What is less debatable is the spatial expansion of inequality (from more outlying, poorer countries to the most developed ones) and its generalization on all scales (from rural to urban areas, and from large metropolises to small cities). Mobility and housing lie at the root of many of these processes, which are represented by phenomena that are often interconnected, such as gentrification and the elite social classes; impoverishment and immigrants in search of work; and segregation and refugees; among many others. In this book, we try to offer a Spanish-based vision of what we call urban geographies in transition—that is, urban geographies in which the key stages, for the purpose of analysis, are the real estate bubble (1996–2007), the subsequent crisis (2008–2013), and the ensuing recovery (2014–2020), without overlooking the impact of the current COVID-19 crisis on the configuration of a new spatial order in cities.


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Fragmented City: International Mobility and Housing in Spain
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Habitual statements in academic and journalistic fields on the growing inequality of our cities call for multiple reflections. There are numerous indicators of inequality, and territorial specificities give rise to important and subtle differences. What is less debatable is the spatial expansion of inequality (from more outlying, poorer countries to the most developed ones) and its generalization on all scales (from rural to urban areas, and from large metropolises to small cities). Mobility and housing lie at the root of many of these processes, which are represented by phenomena that are often interconnected, such as gentrification and the elite social classes; impoverishment and immigrants in search of work; and segregation and refugees; among many others. In this book, we try to offer a Spanish-based vision of what we call urban geographies in transition—that is, urban geographies in which the key stages, for the purpose of analysis, are the real estate bubble (1996–2007), the subsequent crisis (2008–2013), and the ensuing recovery (2014–2020), without overlooking the impact of the current COVID-19 crisis on the configuration of a new spatial order in cities.

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Research & information: general --- Spanish cities --- economic crisis --- financialization --- gentrification --- housing crisis --- post-Fordist capitalism --- property bubble --- property repossession --- touristification --- pandemic --- real estate dispossession --- mortgage foreclosure --- evictions --- short-term rentals --- housing studies --- critical geography --- Canary Islands --- megaprojects --- neoliberalism --- urban development --- urban planning --- Santa Cruz de Tenerife --- Spain --- tourist gentrification --- real estate market --- international migrations --- tourist rejuvenation --- urban inequality --- master plans --- urban projects --- medium-sized cities --- neoliberal urbanism --- tourist housing --- Airbnb --- historic center --- population --- population growth --- spatial reconfiguration --- large urban areas --- post-crisis period --- urban project --- urban agents --- market urbanism --- speculation --- urban transformation --- central area --- Madrid --- residential segregation --- living conditions --- spatial inequalities --- urbanization process --- environmental justice --- urban parks --- ecosystem services --- Tarragona --- Spanish cities --- economic crisis --- financialization --- gentrification --- housing crisis --- post-Fordist capitalism --- property bubble --- property repossession --- touristification --- pandemic --- real estate dispossession --- mortgage foreclosure --- evictions --- short-term rentals --- housing studies --- critical geography --- Canary Islands --- megaprojects --- neoliberalism --- urban development --- urban planning --- Santa Cruz de Tenerife --- Spain --- tourist gentrification --- real estate market --- international migrations --- tourist rejuvenation --- urban inequality --- master plans --- urban projects --- medium-sized cities --- neoliberal urbanism --- tourist housing --- Airbnb --- historic center --- population --- population growth --- spatial reconfiguration --- large urban areas --- post-crisis period --- urban project --- urban agents --- market urbanism --- speculation --- urban transformation --- central area --- Madrid --- residential segregation --- living conditions --- spatial inequalities --- urbanization process --- environmental justice --- urban parks --- ecosystem services --- Tarragona

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