Jakarta, Drawing the City Near

Simone, AbdouMaliq

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“…The world may be increasingly urban and we may have entered what some herald as 'an urban age', but for growing numbers of residents the city is experienced, as Ananya Roy (2015b: 7) has put it, as "a geography of shards and fragments". For the one in four urban residents who reside in some form of 'informal settlement' -in 'slums', refugee camps, transit camps, pavements and other slithers that increasingly house the denizens of global urbanism -a great deal of everyday life is a surfacing of so many material fragments (Elwood et al, 2016;Moser, 2009;Peake, 2015;Simone, 2014).…”

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Fragment urbanism: Politics at the margins of the city

McFarlane

2018

Environ Plan D

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractFragmentation is a keyword in the history of critical urban thought. Yet the products of fragmentation -the fragments themselves -tend to receive less attention. In this paper, Idevelop a politics of urban fragments as a contribution to debates both in urban theory and in urban poverty and inequality. I examine inadequate and broken material fragments on the economic margins of the urban global South, and ask how they become differently politicized in cities. I develop a three-fold framework for understanding the politics of fragments:attending to, generative translation, and surveying wholes. I build these arguments through a focus on a fundamental provision -urban sanitation -drawing on research in Mumbai in particular, as well as Cape Town, and connecting those instances to research on urban poverty, politics, and fragmentation.2

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Fragment urbanism: Politics at the margins of the city

McFarlane

2018

Environ Plan D

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“…As noted by scholars [1,15], city dwellers have invented new means of accessing food beyond the market economy. This has included the sharing, growing, and bartering food as well as creating new pathways through new informal job opportunities or alternative income sources.…”

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“…In this way, the informal livelihood strategies are often as important as food outlets in the formal food economy. In this paper, informal food activities are defined by their non-formalized human and financial resource structure and their lack of trackable or registered activity with the state [1,5,15,16].…”

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“…Although some important recent studies have focused on the informal food economy in Southern Africa (see [20,21]), more scholarship is needed to understand the innovative ways that people navigate pathways to food. It remains unclear how informal livelihood strategies operate in conjunction with or against the state and food businesses, as urban residents utilize a range of the informal livelihood strategies at the micro-scale to counteract broader social processes [15]. Given the dynamic nature of these informal activities and the complex institutional context in which these social processes operate, it is crucial for scholars to develop methods which can generalize about the size, scope, and location of such activities [4] and follow the development of local processes in relation to broader structural processes [22,23].…”

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“…As noted by scholars [15], urban residents have engaged in innovative informal livelihood strategies to create order and survive in what is often a difficult living environment. This has often meant that city dwellers have developed new methods of accessing food outside the cash economy.…”

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Jakarta, Drawing the City Near

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