| Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Dialogues Contributor(s): Cupples, Julie (Editor), Slater, Tom (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1786606402 ISBN-13: 9781786606402 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $151.47 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Caribbean & Latin American - Political Science | Political Economy - Political Science | Geopolitics |
| Dewey: 307.760 |
| Series: Transforming Capitalism |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.18 lbs) 246 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Mexico City, as in many other large cities worldwide, contemporary modes of urban governance have overwhelmingly benefited affluent populations and widened social inequalities. Disinvestment from social housing and rent-seeking developments by real estate companies and land speculators have resulted in the displacement of low-income populations to the urban periphery. Public social spaces have been eliminated to make way for luxury apartments and business interests. Low-income neighbourhoods are often stigmatized by dominant social forces to justify their demolition. The urban poor have however negotiated and resisted these developments in a range of ways. This text explores these urban dynamics in Mexico City and beyond, looking at the material and symbolic mechanisms through which urban marginality is produced and contested. It seeks to understand how things might be otherwise, how the city might be geared towards more inclusive forms of belonging and citizenship. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cupples, Julie: - Julie Cupples is a Reader in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh and co-convenor of the Urban Marginality Network. She is the author, co-author or co-editor of the following texts: Latin American Development (Routledge, 2013), Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media (Springer 2015), Communications/Media/Geographies (Routledge 2017).Slater, Tom: - Tom Slater is Reader in Urban Geography at the University of Edinburgh. He has research interests in the institutional arrangements producing and reinforcing urban inequalities, and in the ways in which marginalised urban dwellers organise against injustices visited upon them. He has written extensively on gentrification (notably the co-authored Gentrification, 2008 and the co-edited The Gentrification Reader, 2010), displacement from urban space, territorial stigmatisation, welfare reform, and social movements for housing justice. He is currently co-editing (with Imogen Tyler, Lancaster University) a major book entitled The Sociology of Stigma (Blackwell). He has edited 6 special issues of major international journals on these research themes, and since 2010 he has delivered lectures in 18 different countries on these issues. His work has been translated into 8 different languages and circulates widely to inform struggles for urban social justice. |
