2021
DOI: 10.1177/00420980211056226
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De-colonising the right to housing, one new city at a time: Seeing housing development from Palestine/Israel

Abstract: The right to housing is generally understood as a local struggle against the global commodification of housing. While useful for recognising overarching urbanisation processes, such understanding risks washing over the distinctive politics that produce the housing crisis and its ostensible solutions in different contexts around the globe. Situated in a settler-colonial context, this paper bridges recent comparative urban studies with Indigenous narratives of urbanisation, to re-think housing crisis solutions f… Show more

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“…The articles collectively signpost the potential for comparative methods to draw different contexts into analytical conversation to enable conceptual renewal in substantive topics of urbanisation: state agency in urban development (Robinson et al, 2022; Teo, 2022); the diverse circuits of planning and design which connect and explain different urban outcomes (Saraiva, 2022; Stanek, 2022); anti-colonial and nationalist mobilisations shaping urban politics (Haas, 2022; Kipfer, 2022); the territorialisations of transnational processes shaping urban development (Kanai and Schindler, 2022; Montero and Baiocchi, 2022); theorisation of urban development building distinctive insights from different contexts (Leitner and Sheppard, 2022; Robinson et al, 2022); developing concepts through attending to infrastructure diversity in urban contexts across the Global South and North (Niranjana, 2022).…”
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“…The articles collectively signpost the potential for comparative methods to draw different contexts into analytical conversation to enable conceptual renewal in substantive topics of urbanisation: state agency in urban development (Robinson et al, 2022; Teo, 2022); the diverse circuits of planning and design which connect and explain different urban outcomes (Saraiva, 2022; Stanek, 2022); anti-colonial and nationalist mobilisations shaping urban politics (Haas, 2022; Kipfer, 2022); the territorialisations of transnational processes shaping urban development (Kanai and Schindler, 2022; Montero and Baiocchi, 2022); theorisation of urban development building distinctive insights from different contexts (Leitner and Sheppard, 2022; Robinson et al, 2022); developing concepts through attending to infrastructure diversity in urban contexts across the Global South and North (Niranjana, 2022).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Even as framing comparisons and thinking with and across difference holds scope for the generation of new concepts, it takes place in a field of striated histories and contested power relations (Mbembe, 2017). This is most evident in the provocative article from Haas (2022) who explores two cases of housing production in Palestine/ Israel. Both are ostensibly neoliberal developments, oriented to privately owned housing and part of neoliberal governance regimes.…”
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“…Moreover, in the researcher’s sequential analysis and movement between the two sites, the comparative researcher is positioned to analytically interpret each site in terms of the other ‘without relying on a priori and contextually specific analyses of state entrepreneurialism or austerity localism as separate, perhaps incommensurable, theoretical frameworks for conceptualisation’ (Teo, 2021: 17). In contrast, Oded Haas offers an entirely different approach by beginning with the idea of contextual specificity, and starting with singularity in order to better understand settler-colonial contexts through the ‘specific narratives of the colonised’ (Haas, 2021). By centring the narratives of Palestinian citizens of Israel, Haas examines the cities of Tantour in Israel and Rawabi in the West Bank, both designed to deal with housing crisis.…”
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“…It is precisely this effort that distinguishes these papers from examples of ‘mere’ empirical variation, by drawing out theoretical findings for the nature of infrastructure, the process of policy learning or the meaning of housing crisis. For instance, learning about sumud (‘steadfastness’ in Arabic) as a way to understand resistance among Palestinians in Israel (Haas, 2021) prompted me to revisit the scholarship on ding-zi-hu (‘nail houses’ in Mandarin) in housing activism in China (Shin, 2013); these papers inspire new reflections about the global urban in terms of its practised and lived experience.…”
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“…Five of the papers implicitly draw on the first definition of tracing, by identifying and following a ‘thing’ that opens up possibilities for topographical and topological comparison. At the larger scale, the papers analyse the replication of urban development around the world (Haas, 2021; Kanai and Schindler, 2022; Robinson et al, 2022). These authors suggest that housing, infrastructure, and other forms of urban development travel alongside theoretical conceptualisations of global capital (Kanai and Schindler, 2022) and neoliberalism (Robinson et al, 2022), producing an ever-larger, variegated impact in each city.…”
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