Spatial Justice, Contested Governance Livelihood Challenges in - The Production of Counterspace

This book analyses the key livelihood and governance challenges that the urban poor experience while navigating public spaces in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It will be of interest to scholars in the field of Sociology, Development Studies, Planning, Geography and Anthropology.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Space, the Right to the City and Informality 3. Power, Governance, Planning and Resistance 4. Urban Governance, Planning and Informality in Dhaka 5. Urban Informality, Power and Resistance in Dhaka 6. Women, Space and Urban Informality 7 Conclusion

About the author

Lutfun Nahar Lata is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social Solutions research group at the Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Australia. Her research spans a number of areas, particularly she has developed an impactful program of research into the key social policy topics of precarious work, migration, poverty governance, urban marginality, housing and place-based disadvantage. Lata's recent work examines the impact of the gig economy on migrant workers in Australia.

Summary

This book analyses the key livelihood and governance challenges that the urban poor experience while navigating public spaces in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It will be of interest to scholars in the field of Sociology, Development Studies, Planning, Geography and Anthropology.

Product details

• Authors: Lutfun Nahar Lata
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.03.2023
• EAN: 9781032395159
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3239515-9
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Routledge Studies in Cities and Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Cultural Studies, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Anthropology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Social groups, Poverty & unemployment, The environment, Politics & government, Urban & municipal planning, Social discrimination & inequality, Politics and government, Human Geography, Development Studies, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Poverty and precarity, Social discrimination and social justice, Social groups, communities and identities