Women's Right to the City - The Family as a Dispositive in Urban Settlements in Mexico

This work analyses how women connected their political claims for housing with 'the family' as a political category in the configuration of urban spaces in Sinaloa, Mexico, during the mid-1970s and 1980s. Women challenged and reinforced the cultural and political significance of their subordination, while trying to fulfil their urgent housing needs, obtain a piece of land for their children and legalise their ownership of land. This co-generative relationship between women's political participation and the family as a political category shows that the family was a crucial aspect of varying intensity and significance in the development of settlements. Women's political involvement took place throughout their entire struggle to access housing: seizing land, organising new settlements and obtaining legal possession of their plots. Hence, women's individual and collective experiences reveal a dynamic process of them becoming political subjects based on their claim for a piece of land for their families.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Cruz Armando González Izaguirre
• Editore: Nomos
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 07.12.2019
• EAN: 9783848762972
• ISBN: 978-3-8487-6297-2
• Pagine: 387
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 227 mm x 27 mm
• Peso: 556 g
• Serie: Studien zu Lateinamerika | Latin America Studies
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche comparate e internazionali; Urbanistik, Lateinamerika, Mexiko, Frauen, Politik, Urbanität, Städte, Stadtgemeinden, Mexico, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Latin America, Feminism, Stadtsoziologie, Urban Studies, NG-Rabatt, Land, Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Land Grabbing, Genderforschung, Family, Landnahme, Social Movement, Stadtforschung, Subjectivation, Subjektivierung, Frauenrecht, Social Space, political participation, Family studies, Sinaloa, Dispositive, spatial practices, Women‘s political participation, Political involvement