Marginal Socities And Resistance Flashcards
1
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Lefebvre 1970
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‘Right to the city’
2
Q
Sassen 2011
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‘The city is a space where the powerless can make history.’
3
Q
Harvey 2010
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Capitalist developers and the state leading to urban social movements in 1968.
4
Q
TORRE DE DAVID, Caracas
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- 1993 stopped building the bank because of financial pressures. And the architect dying.
- 2007 people move in
- housing crisis meant it was safer in there 5,000 squatters
- tallest squat in the world
- evicted in 2014 after 2013 Chavez dies.
5
Q
Springer 2012
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Anarchy is not chaotic or violent.
It is no centralised mode of structure
Solidarity and mutual respect
6
Q
Vasudeven 2014
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Squatting seen as alternative 'cityness' Post capitalist: * survival Community Mutual aid No property ownership
7
Q
Schneider et al 2010
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De growth
‘Equatable downscaling of production and consumption’
Increase asking well being over economic stuff
Stopping the neoliberal route of saving a city
8
Q
McGuirk 2014
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Torre De David is a social phenomenon
Human ingenuity, adaptability and resourcefulness
Citizens exercising their right to the city
Post capitalist society in the heart of the financial capitalism
