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When Diverse Norms Meet Weak Plans: The Organizational Dynamics of Urban Rubble Clearance in Post‐Earthquake Haiti
In the face of rapid global urbanization, cities are increasingly at risk from major disasters. While considerable attention has been given to other aspects of urban post‐disaster recovery, less has been dedicated to rubble clearance. This article examines the dynamics of rubble clearance through a study of how the...
Problematizing Urban Shit(ting): Representing Human Waste as a Problem
Shit(ting) as a problem is not an a priori position. It is made a problem through socially mediated discursive and non‐discursive practices. Problematizations of human waste promoted by formal governance institutions have dominated the conversation, while the ways in which slum residents experience shit(ting) as a...
Urban Waterscapes: The Hydro‐Politics of Flooding in a Sinking City
The threat of flooding in cities is often compounded by political and economic decisions made on watershed management, land development and water infrastructure and provisioning. It has also become a point of conflict between cities’ objectives for development and modernization, and the struggles of marginalized...
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Detail from a view of one of the many impromptu tent cities set up by residents of Port-au-Prince following the 2010 Haiti earthquake (‘Haiti Earthquake’ © United Nations Development Programme, reproduced under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0)
A communal water pump in Agra, India (photo © Angela Oberg, 2012)
New sea wall under construction, Jakarta Bay (photo © Kian Goh, 2017)