Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Dialogues (Transforming Capitalism)
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Julie Cupples (Contributor) Tom Slater (Contributor)
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In Mexico City, as in many other large cities worldwide, contemporary modes of urban governance have overwhelmingly benefited affluent populations and widened social inequalities. Disinvestment from social housing and rent-seeking developments by real estate companies and land speculators have resulted in the displacement of low-income populations to the urban periphery. Public social spaces have been eliminated to make way for luxury apartments and business interests. Low-income neighbourhoods are often stigmatized by dominant social forces to justify their demolition.
The urban poor have however negotiated and resisted these developments in a range of ways. This text explores these urban dynamics in Mexico City and beyond, looking at the material and symbolic mechanisms through which urban marginality is produced and contested. It seeks to understand how things might be otherwise, how the city might be geared towards more inclusive forms of belonging and citizenship.
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Julie Cupples is Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UKTom Slater is Reader in Urban Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK
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- Contributor: Julie Cupples
- Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International
- ISBN13: 9781786606419
- Number of Pages: 246
- Packaged Dimensions: 153x224x19mm
- Packaged Weight: 376
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
- Release Date: 2019-10-24
- Series: Transforming Capitalism
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Julie Cupples is Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UKTom Slater is Reader in Urban Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK
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