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The makeshift city

Author(s) -

Alexander Vasudevan

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

progress in human geography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.283

H-Index - 146

eISSN - 1477-0288

pISSN - 0309-1325

DOI - 10.1177/0309132514531471

Subject(s) - squatting position , set (abstract data type) , sociology , key (lock) , urban theory , aesthetics , geography , economic geography , civil engineering , computer science , engineering , art , medicine , computer security , programming language , physical therapy

This paper introduces a set of analytical frames that explore the possibilities of conceiving, researching and writing a global geography of squatting. The paper argues that it is possible to detect, in the most tenuous of urban settings, ways of thinking about and living urban life that have the potential to reanimate the city as a key site of geographical inquiry. The paper develops a modest theory of ‘urban combats’ to account for the complexity and provisionality of squatting as an informal set of practices, as a makeshift approach to housing and as a precarious form of inhabiting the city

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