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HERITAGIZATION AS AN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN PRACTICE IN CHINA: Insights from Lijiang
Heritage preservation practices continue to be adopted as a tool to promote the regeneration of historic areas in China. Taking the experience of the Old Town of Lijiang (Dayan) as its starting point, this essay considers heritagization both as a process of gentrification and as an authoritarian urban practice that...
NEIGHBOURHOODS AGAINST THE STATE: Reversing Territorial Stigma in Casablanca and Beyond
Neoliberal urban interventions are perceived as authoritarian by the people affected—regardless of whether they are implemented by an autocrat, a dynastic king or an elected government—because they are supported by narratives designed and imposed from outside which contrast with local perceptions of space and...
DID INDIA EVER HAVE A RIGHT TO THE CITY MOVEMENT? Rethinking Housing Justice in Violent Times
In this article I look into the weakening state of housing justice in India, especially in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and increased state violence. I ask how and why housing rights in India have mostly remained limited in their approach without being able to demand broader access to the city through right to...
SEPTEMBER ISSUE
Glovo Rider stands outside the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, waiting for more orders from one of the several fast-food chain restaurants in that corner (detail from a photo by Nicolás Palacios, March 2024)
Stop EACOP (African Crude Oil Pipeline) (detail from a poster photographed by Maren Larsen, June 2023)
A Taiwanese Public-Private Partnership Original Equipment Manufacturing factory where defective iPhone backs are being methodically destroyed under the watchful eye of local customs officials, offering a revealing look at the underside of China’s rapid urban and industrial expansion (detail from a photo by Yong Zhang, April 2019)
