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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 315–348.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Michael McQuarrie; Naresh Fernandes; Cassim Shepard This essay examines the relationship between the changing organization of urban space and the evolving political culture of a Mumbai slum. Recent work emphasizes that the contemporary city is highly fragmented and poor people are incapable...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 115–141.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Stephen Graham; Renu Desai; Colin McFarlane This essay excavates the complex politics of water in contemporary Mumbai. In the context of a burgeoning water crisis in the city, it explores in detail how the city’s social and political elites demonize the efforts of inhabitants of Mumbai’s slums...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 385–392.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Irene Peano Abstract This essay explores the author's engaged research trajectory into several agro-industrial enclaves in contemporary Italy. Stemming from solidarity work in support of migrant laborers living in slums and camps, and of their demands for legal recognition and better living...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 21–47.
Published: 01 January 2002
..., Partha Chatterjee, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Christophe Jaffrelot, Elizabeth Jelin, Benjamin Lee, Achille Mbembe, Mariella Pandolfi, Charles Taylor, and Peter van der Veer. In a separate vein, I owe thanks to various members and supporters of the Alliance in India and the Shack/Slum Dwellers...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 181–192.
Published: 01 January 2005
... University Press. Clark, Timothy. 1973 . The absolute bourgeois: Artists and politics in France, 1845-1851 . Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society. Davis, Mike. 2004 . Planet of slums. New Left Review , no. 26 (March-April): 5 -34. Debord, Guy. 1998 . Comments on “The society...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 January 2005
... 193 Public Culture That we should assert this and employ a notion of sameness-as-worldliness to emphasize what we mean is seen by Watts as a failure to bear testimony to Africa’s difference constituted, in his view, by its slum life and chronic poverty...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 221–237.
Published: 01 May 2015
... widespread context for design and architecture in human life. The housing-related examples I discuss show that housing as materiality cannot be understood without reference to complex and highly varied practices of mediation. The first example comes from Mumbai, where I have done research on slum...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 349–367.
Published: 01 March 2013
... calculated that a third of the global urban population (over 820 million people) lives in “slum- like con- ditions,” while urban dwellers will continue to swell cities of the global South by 2050. In both Mexico City and Mumbai, for example, the same number of people who today live in New York City...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 313–348.
Published: 01 September 2021
....” Ever since the publication of the United Nations report The Challenge of the Slums (UN Human Settlements Program [Habitat] 2003 ), there has been a fear that this exploding population will overwhelm cities by relentlessly occupying public spaces, introducing crime and lawlessness, disorder...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 627–651.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... But it was unmistakable. Jobs became harder to get. More rural arrivals in the city found themselves economic refugees. Slums and shacks began to proliferate. The wealthy began to get nervous. The middle classes had to wrestle with overcrowded streets and buses, skyrocketing prices...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 593–609.
Published: 01 September 2007
... involved the resettlement and “rehabilitation” of slum-dwellers, allowed for large-scale demolitions to take place and allowed the occupation of space thus “freed” by real-estate capital.1 Like the riots and their fields of killing and death...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 79–112.
Published: 01 January 2017
... the Transformative Geographies of the International Indigenous Peoples’ Movement .” Social Movement Studies 1 , no. 1 : 31 – 46 . Francis Sheelu . 1994 . “ PALM Training Experience in India, ODA Funded Slum Improvement Projects .” TOP 18.4, PRC Archive at IDS . Freire Paolo . 2005 [1968...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 201–208.
Published: 01 March 2013
... in every respect — are expected to house 80 percent of the world’s urban population in 2030, over a billion of whom will be living in slums already by 2020 (UN-­Habitat 2008). Slums are set to become “normal” urban neighbor- 2030 to be accompanied by a tripling of the built-­up area...
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 83–113.
Published: 01 January 1997
..., unremitting spectacles of loyal self-abasement while ordinary people were awed by displays of immense wealth. Outside and within the interstices of this middle-class city lived a city of emerging slums from where the ordinary people served, in their turn, these servants of the European elites...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 393–407.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Surplus .” Antipode 43 , no. 5 : 1625 – 58 . Khanolkar Prasad . 2022 . Passages of Play in Urban India: People, Media, Objects, and Spaces in Mumbai's Slum Localities . Abingdon, UK : Routledge . King Tiffany Lethabo . 2019 . The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black...
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 129–134.
Published: 01 May 1990
... employs identi- fiable strategies. The first is to encourage a certain degree of voyeuristic slumming. This sometimes entails a Trillinesque appreciation of American regionalism. In the process, class slumming becomes translated into a search for superlatives. The working-class man goes...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 195–200.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., the Office, and the Apartment: Protest and Aspiration in a Mumbai Slum,” Michael McQuarrie, Naresh Fernandes, and Cassim Shepard take us to the slums of Mumbai to show how residents aim to remake their com- munity under their own terms...
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (3): 593–629.
Published: 01 September 1995
... the poorest slum areas with the most fragile economies described by Pain as "squatter zones whose allotments were defined by local land chiefs; undifferentiated and poorly structured neighborhoods easily recognizable by the mediocrity of the dwellings" (1984914; my translation). The houses in poor...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 347–372.
Published: 01 September 2004
... these commentaries has until recently been populated by “proletarians”: a generic term that encompasses slum dwellers, migrant workers, strikers, hawkers, prostitutes, domestic servants, squatters, criminal classes, and so on.20 Its “real story,” says van Onselen, revolves around “the contest between...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 9–19.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... These were primarily identified as Luo or Kikuyu. Clashes between such gangs were concentrated in the Nairobi slums, although similar clashes occurred in towns of the Rift Valley, such as Nakuru and Naivasha, between Kikuyu and Kalenjin...