Housing is no longer about having a place to live - but about state pressures to conform, norms and policies regarding citizenship, and practices of surveillance and security. Breaking new ground in the field of urban politics and international relations, Securitization of Prope…
Evasion
Squatting is currently a global phenomenon. A concomitant of economic development and social conflict, squatting attracts public attention because - implicitly or explicitly - it questions property relations from the perspective of the basic human need for shelter. So far neglec…
Introduction: global perspectives on squatting / Freia Anders and Alexander Sedlmaier -- Crossing hemispheres : beyond historiographical divides -- Squatting, North, South and turnabout : a dialogue comparing illegal housing research / Thomas Aguilera and Alan Smart -- Squatting…
The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urban corollary: it caused the proliferation of unplanned parts of the cities that are identified by a plethora of terminologies such as…
Review: "A study of local-level social and political organizations during the early years of military rule and of the protest between 1983-86. The author points to the presence (or absence) of a strong Communist party nucleus and a historical tradition (pre-1973) of political in…
