2016
DOI: 10.4324/9781315548814
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Urban Informalities

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“…Waibel and McFarlane discuss informality as a negotiability of value, shaped by shifting social relations, building new alliances, and establishing legitimacy through networking and collaboration. (26) The contested and fractured nature of inter-and intra-community relationships has considerable influence on this negotiation, and on the design, structure and execution of community development planning. Cirolia and Berrisford analyse spatial planning in three African cities and argue that much of the planning process happens outside the formal designated planning institutions, and is rather a negotiated undertaking -the essence of co-production.…”
Section: Co-production As a Product Of Rule Negotiationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Waibel and McFarlane discuss informality as a negotiability of value, shaped by shifting social relations, building new alliances, and establishing legitimacy through networking and collaboration. (26) The contested and fractured nature of inter-and intra-community relationships has considerable influence on this negotiation, and on the design, structure and execution of community development planning. Cirolia and Berrisford analyse spatial planning in three African cities and argue that much of the planning process happens outside the formal designated planning institutions, and is rather a negotiated undertaking -the essence of co-production.…”
Section: Co-production As a Product Of Rule Negotiationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is little scholarly consensus on a precise definition of “informality.” Indeed, the recently published Global Encyclopaedia of Informality opens with the claim that informality is indefinable, saying that “it would probably be difficult to agree on a definition of informality acceptable to all.” Instead, the publication uses the word “informality” as “an umbrella term for a variety of social and cultural phenomena that are too complex to be grasped in a single definition,” but which broadly refers to “the world’s open secrets, unwritten rules and hidden practices” (Ledeneva, Bailey, Barron, Curro, and Teague 2018, 1). McFarlane and Waibel (2012) discuss various ways in which informality has been conceived: as a spatial category (the “slum”), an organizational form (characterized by spontaneity and tacit knowledge rather than explicit rules), a governmental tool (which enables certain modes of intervention), and a “negotiability of value” (shaped through shifting social relations). To anthropologist Julia Elyachar (2005), “informal” practices “have a legitimacy that is not the state’s,” even though the state may be implicated in perpetuating informality (pp.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In chapter four she discusses informality of the garment workers’ lives that has resulted due to ‘rapid urbanization’ and ‘weak industrial wage’ (p. 89). The overall narratives of Werner’s informality seems to be ‘romanticizing’ (Iveson and Ruddick cited in McFarlane and Waibel, 2012) the marginal lives of the garment workers. An examination of ‘epistemological demarcation’ of urban informality which can be put to ‘work in different ways and contexts’ to think through the spatially contested and ‘urban development debates’ (McFarlane and Waibel, 2012: 3) could have further enhanced Werner’s arguments of uneven development in the Caribbean.…”
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“…The overall narratives of Werner’s informality seems to be ‘romanticizing’ (Iveson and Ruddick cited in McFarlane and Waibel, 2012) the marginal lives of the garment workers. An examination of ‘epistemological demarcation’ of urban informality which can be put to ‘work in different ways and contexts’ to think through the spatially contested and ‘urban development debates’ (McFarlane and Waibel, 2012: 3) could have further enhanced Werner’s arguments of uneven development in the Caribbean. Furthermore, the marginality of the garment workers could have been explained through an emergent yet contested lens of ‘precarity’ (see Bhan et al., 2018; Marques, 2018; Strauss and McGrath, 2016) and ‘precarious employment’ that interrogate various forms of job ‘insecurity’ and exploitation, particularly experienced by migrant workers and immigrants (Strauss and McGrath, 2016: 200).…”
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confidence: 99%