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...: a reciprocal exchange of resources and services for mutual benefit done in conjunction with social movements demanding transformative change. Many of the young organizers were also ordained ministers in extra-ecclesiastical “street churches” described in chapter 2. urban renewal mutual aid War...

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... de Janeiro and São Paulo, encouraging European immigration and implementing reforms that pushed poor and working-class residents out of city centers, illustrated journalism charted the spatial and social divides of an urbanizing Brazil. Topical narratives of violence acknowledged the human toll...

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... Chapter 2 describes how student activists laid claim to the city through spectacular displays of political participation, most evident in organized marches and demonstrations. Student expertise brought together middle-class university activists with rural and urban poor in a reformed nationalist...

... the harms wreaked by their own former employers, turning many industry consultants into agents of the new apartheid. Their resources vastly exceed those of the communities, artists, activists, and social scientists who seek to remediate the spatial injustices of apartheid. urban planning land reform...

... This chapter explores cross-dressing law’s legal operations and effects as it developed as a flexible tool for policing multiple gender offenses, including those of feminist dress reformers, female impersonators, fast young women who dressed as men for nights out on the town, and people whose...

... to the process of mestizaje or miscegenation and the impact of gender differences. The role of the Catholic Church in the colonial order and the relationship between urban spaces and the rest of the territory, where the Spanish presence was weak, are also examined. The resistance of the indigenous peoples...

...” (i.e., the racial integration) of some city neighborhoods. With the demise of influx controls in 1986, African in-migration pushed demand for urban housing. Yet most attempts to accommodate African people came in the form of site-and-service schemes, which by confining blacks to the city limits only...

... The conclusion situates Mumbai’s hydraulic infrastructure in a larger conversation about technology, the environment, and personhood in the Anthropocene. It urges an attention to the ways in which distribution is conducted with the materials and politics of modern urban infrastructures...

... of governmentality, one based in bureaucratic authority and surveillance. The chapter shows how the bureaucratization of government in Bandung was accompanied by a step-by-step shift in the colonial gaze on urban spaces: from a view from the carriage, to a view from above, to a view in depth. Driven in part...

... Chapter 2 is concerned with absorption between persons and urban space. Moving from the scales of the globe and nation toward the scale of the street, it addresses how metabolism is spatial, and how biomedical sciences and the science of urban politics overlap. Mumbai’s famous fried street food...

... “degrees of freedom” provided a normative structure for southern society as a whole, allowing temporary release to prisoners as a reward for good behavior made sense. Prisoners treasured furloughs as opportunities to maintain connections with the outside world. By the 1950s, penological reformers perceived...

... invective and ridicule from the anonymous authors of the pasqui-nades, and pleaded unsuccessfully to resign his post. The public warning reproduced here played with the word gallo , which means “rooster” in Spanish. This popular urban unrest against the Bourbon reforms clearly contributed to the outbreak...