The makeshift city: towards a global geography of squatting

This paper introduces a set of analytical frames that explore the possibilities of conceiving, researching and writing a global geography of squatting. The paper argues that it is possible to detect, in the most tenuous of urban settings, ways of thinking about and living urban life that have the po...

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Main Author: Vasudevan, Alexander
Format: Article
Published: SAGE 2015
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3197/
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description This paper introduces a set of analytical frames that explore the possibilities of conceiving, researching and writing a global geography of squatting. The paper argues that it is possible to detect, in the most tenuous of urban settings, ways of thinking about and living urban life that have the potential to reanimate the city as a key site of geographical inquiry. The paper develops a modest theory of ‘urban combats’ to account for the complexity and provisionality of squatting as an informal set of practices, as a makeshift approach to housing and as a precarious form of inhabiting the city.
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spelling nottingham-31972020-05-04T20:08:39Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3197/ The makeshift city: towards a global geography of squatting Vasudevan, Alexander This paper introduces a set of analytical frames that explore the possibilities of conceiving, researching and writing a global geography of squatting. The paper argues that it is possible to detect, in the most tenuous of urban settings, ways of thinking about and living urban life that have the potential to reanimate the city as a key site of geographical inquiry. The paper develops a modest theory of ‘urban combats’ to account for the complexity and provisionality of squatting as an informal set of practices, as a makeshift approach to housing and as a precarious form of inhabiting the city. SAGE 2015-06 Article PeerReviewed Vasudevan, Alexander (2015) The makeshift city: towards a global geography of squatting. Progress in Human Geography, 39 (3). pp. 338-359. ISSN 0309-1325 http://phg.sagepub.com/content/39/3/338 doi:10.1177/0309132514531471 doi:10.1177/0309132514531471
spellingShingle Vasudevan, Alexander
The makeshift city: towards a global geography of squatting
title The makeshift city: towards a global geography of squatting
title_full The makeshift city: towards a global geography of squatting
title_fullStr The makeshift city: towards a global geography of squatting
title_full_unstemmed The makeshift city: towards a global geography of squatting
title_short The makeshift city: towards a global geography of squatting
title_sort makeshift city: towards a global geography of squatting
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