Urban Regimes of Dispossession in the Global South : A New Debate /

Urban Regimes of Dispossession in the Global South : A New Debate /

This edited volume develops a theoretical framework-what we call urban regimes of dispossession -for understanding how urban actors organize dispossession and govern the urban dispossessed, how the urban dispossessed arrange, experience and resist dispossession, and how urban dispossession contribut...

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Other Authors: Brunsma, David L. (Editor), Mondal, Lipon (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 333.

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Asian Studies.
Social Sciences.

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Call Number: HN65

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures, Tables, and Photos
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Towards a New Debate on Urban Dispossession in the Global South
  • Lipon Mondal and David L. Brunsma
  • Part 1 The Formal Regime of Dispossession
  • 2 Innovative Finance and Urban Dispossession: 'A Plan for Everyone for a Better Life' in Honduras
  • Adrian Murray, Karen Spring, and Susan Spronk
  • 3 'Legitimized' Evictions: Ambiguous Uses of Legal Instruments for Displacement in Urban Nigeria
  • Julian Walker, Victor Udemezue Onyebueke, and Barbara Lipietz
  • 4 The Legal Regime of Dispossession in Urban India: a Study of Slum Evictions in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam
  • Lakshmi Jahnavi
  • Part 2 The Informal Regime of Dispossession
  • 5 Punishing the Urban Poor: a Violent Logic of Dispossession in Neoliberal Bangladesh
  • Lipon Mondal and David L. Brunsma
  • 6 Illegalism, Dispossession, and Urban Space Production: the Case of the Militialization of Rio de Janeiro
  • Orlando Alves dos Santos Junior, Taísa Sanches, and Tarcyla Fidalgo Ribeiro
  • 7 The Politics of Urban Planning and Dispossession in Kampala, Uganda
  • Fred Bidandi
  • Part 3 The Subaltern Regime of Dispossession
  • 8 Contesting Urban Dispossession in Postwar Cities: Civic Protest in Beirut
  • Ana Maria Kumarasamy and John Nagle
  • 9 Staging Dispossession: Struggles for Eviction and Inclusion among Brazil's Roofless Population
  • Marie Kolling
  • 10 From Dispossession to Repossessions: Indigenous Retomadas in the Fragmented City
  • Luanda Vannuchi
  • Index.