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Informality Flashcards

1
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Planet of slums
Links rapid UBS, cap and NL policies
Lumpen proletariat

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Davis 2006

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2
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1/3 world’s urban pop live in slums

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UN Habitat 2008

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3
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Informality is a hidden geography:

Lack of data, IFS, no understanding of how much housing

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Brennan

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4
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Squatting
Agency
Incremen devel - possession of land without sale - illegal allows spreading of cost
No-rent
Encroachment
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Chatterton

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5
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Pirate UBS
Marked by invisible real estate market
Legally purchased and illegally subdiv
Privitization of squatting 
Istanbul 1960s e.g.
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Davis 2006

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6
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Problem with ‘slum’

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Angotti 2006

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7
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Tent cities

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Loftus-Farren 2011

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8
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Documenting informal sociality
Formalized forms of informal urban culture
Bottom up governance and resistance to gangs e.g. Favela Rising, Hip-Hop in Rocinha

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De Silva and Shaw

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9
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Documenting sociality

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Malin

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10
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Undercity on fringes of ever-looming ‘over-city’
Foster ingenuity, experimentation
Building new social collectives

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Boo

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11
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Self documentation
Rather than outsiders going in - ^ powerful
Subjugated voices

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Pieterse

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12
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Map Kibera, self documentation

Interactive community Programe

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Marras

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13
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Comm-led enumerations to create political groups
Conducing census’ on own NBDs
Most states don’t conduct as easier to demolish and not proivde services if not recognised

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People’s Census: Slum Dweller’s Internat

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14
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Residents of 1500 homes evicted in India

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Banuwal Nagar, India

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15
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Aesthetics

What is deemed ‘illegal’ is what looks illegal

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Ghertner 2008

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16
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Econ lib, bourgeois citizens want a city that matches aspirations for gracious living
No place for poor
Apartheid-style seg the norm

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Baviskar

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17
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People as IFS

Max output from min

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Simone

18
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Associational life
City = perm settlement of soically heterog indivs
Full of associations

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Wirth 1997

19
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Autonomous way of life - failure of modern states to fulfill needs of informals
Refrain from resorting to police and offics - cos of failure to deliver

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Bayat 2010

20
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Kinds of street pol are not extradordinary - but spontaneous
They are logical and natural, far from destructive behaviour of the ‘lumpen proletariat’
Imposs for authorities to resist them as informals will respond with on the spot resistance

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Bayat 2010

21
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Silent and free form mobilisation
Silent encroachment and autonomous
Current focus on notion of ‘civil soc’ belittles uninstitutionalized and hybrid social activities of informals
There is more than 1 conception of ‘civil soc’
Reductionism excludes modes of struggle and expression that are more effective and extensive as formal, institutionalized counterparts

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Holston

22
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Unregulated domain of activities, unplanned

Outside institutionalized regulation

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Castells and Porter

23
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A demo from below - practice of subaltern

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Appadurai 2001

24
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State and incrementalism:
Repressive policy especc of mercantilist state producing inefficiency and thus forcing poeple to seek inf/autonomous lives
Demo state - ^ efficient but less ground for aunomous as’ll become integrated - more inclned to play games

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Pieterse

25
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Need quiet encroachment of the ordinary

Small movements to catalize huge social movements

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Pieterse

26
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Insurgent Urbanism
Counter modernist state
Life outside norm and institutional definitions of legal codes
Shared community becomes a prob as IU is against formal citizenship as is more complex and shifting

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Holston

27
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Property is the basis of inequality

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Rousseau 1755

28
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Rev based on land - basis of inequality and freedom

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Malcolm X

29
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The mystery of capital
Govs should reward squatters with land titles
Could finance entreprises or investments were it not for legal obstacles
If owned land, then can take out loan - entrepreneurship
Cap hasn’t found way of bringing these people into capital system
Housing not worth much individually, but collectivlying - burgeoning market
But I says rewarding a squatter is like rewarding a pickpocket

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De Soto 2000

30
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Legality of Federations of Tenants Association

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Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, Gurgoan, Mumbai

31
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Governance important in ensuring authorities are accountable to citizens

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Satterthwaite 2002

32
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Institutional pluralism
Failed to keep up with demand and state accused of shirking responsibilities
Shift from state handling own and ^ingly states working with so assocs
States shift from provider to a enabler

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Hobson

33
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Mumbai’s SRA
Construct of tenements cross-subsidized by tenements sold on open market
Partnership model - 40% of land to sell to MC
Govs finding it ^ingly hard to find land for sites and services and other schemes in locations where income generating activities are near

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Burra

34
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80s - RSP of states and civil society
Donating serviced land so could build homes and RS when money
X - land allocation on city peripheries
Little take up and bought by wealthy

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Enabling Shelter Strategies

35
Q

Why India can’t plan its cities

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Roy 2009

36
Q

Legal expropriation of land in favour of public interests
This is an oxymoron
Territorialized flexibility
Convergence of legal and extralegal

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Vesting

37
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Why are some places deemed illegal and worthy of demolition?

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Ghernter

38
Q

Speculative urbanism

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Goldman

39
Q

Soft politicization of toilets

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Chatterjee

40
Q

Sani and urban geography
Shows why people some people use certain spaces e.g. divs of gender and class
And social rules that govern NBD - eth, relig
divide city due to social issues

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Jewitt

41
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Gender relations being destabilised by sanitation

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Bapat and Agarwall

42
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Urban geography has a holistic approach - ANT

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Latour 2010

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