Mobilizing to Stay Put: Housing Struggles in New York City

Maeckelbergh, Marianne

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01120.x

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“…By consenting to this practice, the dwellers contribute to a pitiful representation of their homes, inviting the visitors to have a closer look around in their humble shacks. As Maeckelbergh (2012, this issue) and Klaufus (2012, this issue) point out in their contributions, housing is a concept that goes beyond the physical structure of one's home, but comprises a sense of human dignity as well. In contrast to Klaufus's case, however, where the domestic space is used to counter images of being poor, the homes of the dump workers are used to work in the opposite way and to overtly display poverty and misery.…”

Section: The Dump Workers' Ambivalent Positioningmentioning

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Urban Poverty, Spatial Representation and Mobility: Touring a Slum in Mexico

Dürr

2012

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article draws attention to a controversial activity in poor urban neighborhoods. Slum tourism is a growing business worldwide and simultaneously it is a new form of encounter between the global South and the global North. Following the new mobilities paradigm, I investigate a particular form of slum tourism, which intertwines urban poverty and charity, representation and powerful imaginaries, tourist mobility and transnational lifestyles. This is the case in Mazatlán, Mexico, where a multidenominational church offers regular tours to the city's garbage dump. I scrutinize the various modes of (im)mobilities and their implications for peoples and places, interconnecting spheres which are conceived of as separate. In conclusion, I outline the ambiguous effects when marginalized spaces become integral parts of the urban representation. Résumé Cet article attire l’attention sur une activité discutable qui se déroule dans les quartiers urbains pauvres. Un tourisme de la misère se développe dans tous les pays et, parallèlement, constitue un type original de confrontation Nord‐Sud. Le nouveau modèle de la mobilité permet d’étudier une forme particulière de ‘tourisme des bidonvilles’, qui mêle étroitement pauvreté urbaine et charité, représentation et imaginaires profonds, mobilité des touristes et styles de vie transnationaux. C’est le cas à Mazatlán, au Mexique, où une Église multiconfessionnelle propose régulièrement des excursions à la décharge municipale. Les divers modes de mobilités et d’immobilités, ainsi que leurs implications pour les populations et les lieux, sont étudiés en interconnectant des sphères qui sont censées être séparées. La conclusion expose brièvement les effets ambigus lorsque des espaces marginalisés deviennent des parties intégrantes de la représentation urbaine.

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Section: The Dump Workers' Ambivalent Positioningmentioning

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Urban Poverty, Spatial Representation and Mobility: Touring a Slum in Mexico

Dürr

2012

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Nos recuerda que la investigación sobre la resistencia a la gentrifi cación puede incluir dimensiones diferentes a las tratadas recientemente en el mundo anglosajón, con respecto a la resistencia al desplazamiento (Newman & Wyly, 2006;DeVerteuil, 2012). Los debates en España y América Latina se encuentran cerca de aquellos que se comprometen directamente con las protestas contra la gentrifi cación (Papen, 2012), las demandas vecinales (Maeckelbergh, 2012) y los movimientos sociales contrahegemónicos (Pruijt, 2012;Thorn, 2012). Tal perspectiva ayuda a resignificar la gentrificación desde una perspectiva comprometida que restituye las demandas ciudadanas en los estudios de las ciencias sociales.…”

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Gentrificación en España y América Latina: Un diálogo crítico

Janoschka

Sequera

Salinas

2014

Rev. geogr. Norte Gd.

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RESUMENLas principales transformaciones sociales y políticas, así como la implementación de las políticas urbanas neoliberales han alterado profundamente la estructuración de las ciudades en España y América Latina. Entre sus consecuencias destaca la reconquista de los centros urbanos por las clases acomodadas, que conlleva la expulsión de los hogares con menores ingresos, un fenómeno generalmente abordado mediante el término de gentrifi cación. Hasta el momento y en comparación con la abundante literatura anglosajona sobre gentrifi cación, pocos investigadores han prestado atención al fenómeno en estas dos áreas geográfi cas. Este artículo responde a esta laguna y ofrece una exhaustiva revisión de los debates sobre gentrifi cación que se han producido en España y América Latina durante la últi-ma década, siguiendo dos presupuestos. En primer lugar, se hace hincapié en la necesidad de caracterizar los discursos de la gentrifi cación en España y América Latina, para conseguir una adecuada apropiación y contextualización del concepto. Y en segundo lugar, se afi rma que la gentrifi cación en España y América Latina difi ere sustancialmente de los procesos observados en el mundo anglosajón. A partir de este análisis se propone por tanto una reconsideración y repolitización del concepto de gentrifi cación a través de la visión territorial y lingüística de los investigadores españoles y latinoamericanos.Palabras clave: Gentrifi cación, neoliberalismo, revanchismo, resistencia. ABSTRACTMajor social and political transformations such as the shift towards neoliberal urban policies have widely altered the contemporary structuring of metropolitan areas in Spain and Latin America. One key consequence is the recapture of city centres by wealthy tenants and the eviction of poorer households, a phenomenon usually designated by the term gentrifi cation. In comparison to the comprehensive documentation of gentrifi cation in the Anglophone environment, few scholars 1 Este texto es la traducción del artículo "Gentrifi cation in Spain and Latin America -a Critical Dialogue" que fue publicado en la revista International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2014, Vol. 38, Nº 4, p. 1234-1265 (DOI:10.1111/1468-2427). Agradecemos a la editorial Wiley la cesión de los derechos de autor. La investigación fue apoyada por el Séptimo Programa Marco de la Comisión Europea (FP7-PEOPLE-PIRSES- GA-2012GA- -318944, 2012GA- -2016 Algunas evidencias sugieren que tanto las expresiones simbólicas y materiales de la gentrifi cación en España y América Latina, como los discursos científi cos al respecto difi eren marcadamente de aquellos que tienen lugar en el mundo anglosajón. A partir de esta premisa, el siguiente análisis desarrollará, desde una perspectiva holística, una visión común sobre la investigación de la gentrificación en las ciudades españolas y latinoamericanas. Al mismo tiempo, se mantendrá un diálogo con las demandas teóricas que sostienen que las 'geografías de la gentrifi cación' de las ciudades fuera del mundo anglosajón requiere...

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“…Marianne Maeckelbergh (2012, this issue) addresses residents' social struggle against displacement in a gentrification area in New York City's East Harlem, focusing on the Movement for Justice in El Barrio. The movement's first priority is to stay put in their neighborhood, making immobility their goal.…”

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Mobilities and Mobilizations of the Urban Poor

Jaffe

Klaufus²,

Colombijn

2012

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This introduction sets out the aims of the symposium on mobilities and mobilizations of the urban poor. Exploring the physical, social and imagined movements of the poor into, within and out of cities, and addressing how these movements connect to the dynamics of urban social mobilization, it argues for an incorporation of the 'mobility turn' in studies of the urban poor. The introduction proposes a number of relevant themes within this approach, starting with increased attention to the interconnections between physical and imaginative movements. This is followed by a discussion of representations of mobility and mobile representations: the ways in which physicalThis symposium explores the physical, social and imagined movements of the poor into, within and out of cities and addresses how these movements connect to the dynamics of urban social mobilization. The six articles presented here are the product of an international conference organized in September 2009 in Leiden, the Netherlands, in honor of the retiring urban anthropologist Peter J.M. Nas. The conference brought to light a number of cross-cultural insights that have been further elaborated for this symposium. The authors study the ways in which urban space is imagined and how this connects to the spatialization of the networks of the urban poor, both within and beyond cities. The contributors analyze instances when the urban poor coalesce to become visible, as well as when they strategically remain invisible, in both a physical and a symbolic sense. The articles start from the idea that, in a globalized world, virtual forms of travel and alliance can supplement or even replace physical movement. Following Cresswell (2010: 19), we understand mobilities here as the entanglement of three aspects: 'the fact of physical movement -getting from one place to another; the representations of movement that give it shared meaning; and, finally, the experienced and embodied practice of movement'. Physical movement can be taken as the 'raw material' from which mobilities are produced. A mobilities approach to migration, for instance, entails not only a study of the physical movement of people between and across places, but also entails considering the popular and official representations of these movements and the embodied practices involved. Virtual movement refers to the forms of communication, alliance and exchange enabled through the circulation of images and information. We see mobilization as the process, central to the formation of political actors, of making resources (such as manpower, money, information or images) available for the collective making of claims (Tilly and Tarrow, 2006: 74). By analyzing the flows, networks and imaginaries that influence possibilities for physical movement and social mobilization across and beyond the city, this symposium aims to share some fresh theoretical insights on the relationship between im/mobility and urban poverty. The rapid growth of the world's urban population over the past decades has spurred social scientists ...

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Mobilizing to Stay Put: Housing Struggles in New York City

Cited by 62 publications

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Urban Poverty, Spatial Representation and Mobility: Touring a Slum in Mexico

Urban Poverty, Spatial Representation and Mobility: Touring a Slum in Mexico

Gentrificación en España y América Latina: Un diálogo crítico

Mobilities and Mobilizations of the Urban Poor

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