Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality - Interdisciplinary and Comparative Dialogues

This book explores these urban dynamics in Mexico City and beyond, looking at the material and symbolic mechanisms through which urban marginality is produced and contested.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality, Tom Slater

Part 1: Conceptual Terrains

2. An Explanatory or Mystifying Concept? The Use Value of Gentrification Theory, Edwar Calderon, Neil Gray, Hamish Kallin, and Ebru Soytemel

3. Oscillations in Housing Policy: Comparative Urbanism Across Delhi and Rio de Janeiro, Héctor Becerril Miranda and Kavita Ramakrishnan

4. The Calais Jungle: A City In-between Urban Worlds, Oli Mould

Part 2: Everyday Marginalities

5. Contrasting 'Ghetto' Pride: A Comparison of the Sense of Belonging for People who Live Outside of their Local Neighbourhoods: London and Mexico City, César Rebolledo and Joy White

6. Music Neotribes: Moving from the Margins, Catherine Wilkinson and Joseline Vega

7. Popular Religiosity and Struggles for Urban Justice in Mexico: A Decolonial Analysis of Santa Muerte, Julie Cupples and Kevin Glynn

Part 3: Marginality by Design and Designing out Marginality

8. Cultural Marginality and Urban Place Making: The Case of Leicester and Ouro Preto, Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos and Tom Hulme

9. Marginalized Development and Ad-hoc Tactics for Growth, Lucía Martín López, Christoph Lueder, and Almudena Cano

10. San Miguel de Allende: Tackling Marginality in the False-Utopian City, Mario López González Garza

11. Conclusion: Urban Research and the Pluriverse: Analytical and Political Lessons from Scholarship in Varied Margins, Julie Cupples

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Edited by Julie Cupples and Tom Slater

Summary

This book explores these urban dynamics in Mexico City and beyond, looking at the material and symbolic mechanisms through which urban marginality is produced and contested.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Slater Cupples
• Assisted by: Julie Cupples (Editor), Cupples Julie (Editor), Tom Slater (Editor), Slater Tom (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781786606402
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-640-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Transforming Capitalism
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Caribbean islands, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America