PLAN 211 Mid-term terms Flashcards
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A dual structure of care work
We now have a dual organization of care work in which those who can afford domestic help simply pay for it, while those who cannot scramble to take care of their families, often by doing the paid care work for the first group, and often at very, very low wages with virtually no protections…It is, after all, chiefly immigrant women of color, African American women, and Latino women who are doing this work.
(Nancy Fraser - Capitalisms crisis of care)
A global sense of place
Definition of places] can come, in part, precisely through the particularity of linkage to that ‘outside’ which is therefore itself part of what constitutes the place (p. 262) A [global] sense of place…can only be constructed by linking that place to places beyond
-(Massey -A global sense of place)
A new international division of labour
Cities are ranked – from core, global to peripheral, regional – according to their position within a “new international division of labor.” The most important cities within this hierarchy are those that carry out advanced economic functions, such as serving as a global financial center and headquarters for multinational corporations. A city’s standing within the global economic system, in turn, strongly influences a host of economic, social, and polit-ical changes that takes place within it, from types of employment to funding for parks or museums.
(Friedmann - The world city hypothesis)
A view from off the map
A view of the world of cities thus emerges where millions of people and hundreds of cities are dropped off the map of much research in urban studies, to service one particular and very restricted view of significance or (ir)relevance to certain sections of the global economy.
-(Robinson 2017- Global and world cities: a view from off the map)
Accumulation by dispossession
The growth of the big modern cities gives the land in certain areas, particularly in those areas which are centrally situated, an artificially and colossally increasing value; the buildings erected on these areas depress this value instead of increasing it, because they no longer belong to the changed circumstances. They are pulled down and replaced by others. This takes place above all with workers’ houses which are situated centrally and whose rents, even with the greatest overcrowding, can never, or only very slowly, increase above a certain maximum. They are pulled down and in their stead shops, warehouses and public buildings are erected
-(David Harvey - The right to the city)
Ananya Roy
Worlding cities/ post colonial critique
Command-and-control centres/functions
-The concentration of TNC’s headquarters and advanced producer services
a workforce of highly educated professionals who specialize in making complex business decisions
-(Friedmann - the world city hypothesis)
Community Opportunity to Purchase Act
-Gives qualified non-profit organizations right of first offer to purchase certain properties in the city.
-no author its a policy
Deindustrialization
-industrial areas replaced within cities as production shifts to other countries where labour is cheaper. In connection with neoliberalism and the fall of fordism.
-may want to look for an author who mentions
Developmental state
-Central to developmentalism is the developmental state
that “plans, orchestrates, or steers economic, political, and
societal strategies oriented to catch up with” advanced capitalist economies
(Jessop, 2016, p. 28)
Ethics of extended responsibilities
Looking at the connections between the places we have the responsibility to worry about even the people harmed in distant places due to our actions as they are affected as well not just those around us.
(Massey - A Global sense of place)
Filtering
As you build new housing so higher income can move in, and then the benefits can trickle down
Invest in infrastructure fro middle income groups and low-income can move to the middle income housing = move up and cycle of getting richer
Hermit crab switching shells or sibling hand me down
Trickle down economy
Critiqued by David Hulchanski who created the “Housing system perspective
Financialization
The use of something for its monetary value. In the case of housing financialization means that housing is treated as a commodity not necessity. Hyper financialization of housing is the investments into housing used purely for monetary gain i.e. its use is no longer a shelter but a way of making money.
“the increasing power and prominence of actors and firms that engage in profit accumulation through the serving and exchanging of money and financial
Instruments”
(Madden and Marcuse - the permanent crisis of housing)
Fordist regime
came before neoliberalism involves controlled markets.
Mass production & mass consumption
* Manufacturing and factories
* Living wage jobs
Friedrich Engels
“As long as the capitalist mode of production continues to exist, it is folly to hope for an isolated solution to the housing question or of any other social question affecting the fate of the workers.”
-the classic statement on the political-economic aspects of housing was written by Friedrich Engels in 1872
-Talked about by Madden and Marcuse - the permenant crisis of housing
Glen Courthard
Glenna Nullis
Global cities as ageing cities
The populations are ageing especially important is the lowered birth rate in modern times which leads to a crisis of care as there are so many seniors who need care and facilities and homes ect (Strauss and Xu 2018) - At the Intersection of Urban and Care Policy: The Invisibility of Eldercare Workers in the Global City
Global Displacement
the processes of local development in this packing town need to be
understood in conjunction with processes of dispossession and displacement
taking place in other global locations.
Miraftab - framing the global relationally
Grenfell
A fire written about by (Dandewid) - The fire this time: Grenfell, racial capitalism and the urbanisation of empire
Henri Lefebvre
wrote The Urban Revolution, which predicted not only that urbanization was central to the survival of capitalism and therefore bound to become a crucial focus of political and class struggle, but that it was obliterating step by step the distinctions between town and country through the production of integrated spaces across national territory, if not beyond.footnote4 The right to the city had to mean the right to command the whole urban process, which was increasingly dominating the countryside through phenomena ranging from agribusiness to second homes and rural tourism.
-Talked about by David harvey - The Right to the city
