Introduction: Cities and public space

Leary-Owhin, Michael Edema

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“…Difference, as understood in Henri Lefebvre’s dialectic between space and power, helps identify practices with revolutionary potential. Differential space constitutes a politicised appropriation whereby the economic abstractions of exchange value are forced to give way to use value and concrete needs of those inhabiting the space (Leary-Ohwin, 2016). Buckley and Strauss (2016: 627) search for differential space in the ‘everyday’ and the ‘residual’, indexing ‘that which in no way [could be] explained fully or adequately through capitalocentric epistemologies’.…”

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Infrastructure-led development and the peri-urban question: Furthering crossover comparisons

Kanai

Schindler

2022

Urban Studies

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Contemporary development policy portrays enhanced connectivity as the key to fostering economic growth in lagging regions. This global policy consensus and consequent infrastructure scramble have resulted in a proliferation of new urban spaces. These are dispersed, fragmentary and often unrecognised as urban by projects and plans centred on large-scale connective infrastructures to integrate remote regions into circuits of capital. Whilst our understanding of infrastructure-led development is informed by critical engagements with planetary urbanisation, global infrastructure and logistics, this position paper seeks to reconcile political economy analyses with situated studies closer to lived forms of heterogeneous precariousness in emerging urban worlds. Addressing recent debates that frame these bodies of scholarship as antagonistic, we emphasise the supplementarity of perspectives from within and beyond urban studies. This pluralism can be practised through comparisons that will (i) trace the geo-economic relationality of mega-infrastructures, which conditions directly and indirectly their planning, financing, construction and management, and (simultaneously or independently) (ii) examine difference in the diverse experiences of and responses to emergent infrastructural urbanisms of precarity. The article shows that genetic and generative comparisons can inform a research agenda on (peri-)urban precariousness, engaging policies with unmistakable global moorings but complex multi-scalar politics, diverging outcomes and situated resistances and appropriations.

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Infrastructure-led development and the peri-urban question: Furthering crossover comparisons

Kanai

Schindler

2022

Urban Studies

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“…This is also where insight from critical scholars including Lefebvre (1991) or Harvey (2012) challenges us to expose the social construction of space, to articulate and address inequitable power relations. Leary-Owhin’s (2016: 328) recent examination of the contribution of community actors and collective political action in the creation of public space offers a counter-strike against ‘neoliberal provoked fatalistic pessimism’ when it comes to future consumption. Likewise, the potential, as well as the challenge, of urban transformation has been illuminated by recent critical examinations of the trend of leveraging culture, heritage and increasing tourism consumption as part of urban change (see Cowan, 2016; Markusen, 2014; Munzner and Shaw, 2015; Vivant, 2013; Waitt and Gibson, 2009).…”

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User-generated insight of Rio’s Rocinha favela tour: Authentic attraction or vulnerable living environment?

Wise

Polidoro

Hall

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Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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Urban transformations help shape new opportunities and create/re-create awareness in everyday living environments. It is not transformation in the infrastructural sense, but transformation in the form of a service industry producing socio-economic change that can result in inclusion and exclusion of people in the community, thus affecting the everyday living environment. Within this, we need to consider the tourist gaze and how users who visit/tour vulnerable living environments report perceptions of their experiences on forums such as TripAdvisor, which helps researchers frame understandings of commodification, opportunities/awareness and even authenticity (each addressed in this paper). This paper evaluates TripAdvisor posts of ‘Rio’s Rocinha Favela Tour’. In many respects, the notion of commodification, and even authenticity, runs through each theme, but the analysis and data posted to TripAdvisor challenges us to consider how a favela becomes a consumer product or a tourist attraction. The Rocinha Favela tour is widely publicised to prospective visitors as a chance to experience a living and working favela, the focus of the first theme presented in this paper. Given Rocinha has become a popular attraction in Rio, this leads to the second theme: opportunity or awareness. Opportunities do exist for people in the community to get involved in tourism, and turning the favela into a product helps shape and maintain awareness. The third theme builds on and relates to the previous two, but focuses more on the semblances of authenticity that emerges. To link the points highlighted in this paper, a discussion of soft power concerns relationships bonded through economic and cultural influence. Because favelas have become distinct attractions, it is cultural appeal and a different (residential) side of the city that persuades travellers to visit. Online and social media platforms for more than a decade now have played an important role today in projecting images and promoting authentic experiences based on user-perceptions, and this paper looks at how the users communicate their experiences.

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“…A number of these works and theoretical perspectives are referenced and discussed in papers in this special issue and in a number of recent contributions (e.g. Cowan, 2016; Hénaff, 2016; Herod, 2011; Leary-Owhin, 2016; Low, 2017; Manzo and Devine-Wright, 2014; Meade et al., 2016; Peck, 2013; Sanz Sabido, 2017; Wise and Clark, 2017; Wise and Harris, 2017).…”

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Local community and local economy: Place, policies and power at the micro-scale

Wise

2017

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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While much work today is concerned with globalisation and its impact on wider global trends, it is still important to assess local communities and local responses to these wider trends. By focusing our research on a micro-locale case study, we can better understand how a particular community builds a new economic base, promotes local income generation and/or informs inclusive public policies. The aim of this special issue is to bring together a collection of papers that focus on a very specific group of people, or a very specific place, neighbourhood or location, in an attempt to address issues at the micro-community scale. Various studies have evaluated micro-locales to develop a better understanding of how communities are impacted socially (e.g. Aguilar

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Introduction: Cities and public space

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Infrastructure-led development and the peri-urban question: Furthering crossover comparisons

Infrastructure-led development and the peri-urban question: Furthering crossover comparisons

User-generated insight of Rio’s Rocinha favela tour: Authentic attraction or vulnerable living environment?

Local community and local economy: Place, policies and power at the micro-scale

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