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CLAIMING SPACE, LAND AND ECOLOGY: Mapping Geographies of Indigenous and Decolonial Urbanisms in Taipei
The city is often understood as the antithesis of Indigeneity. In Taiwan, a settler colony where the Han Chinese have colonized Austronesian Indigenous peoples, dominant understandings and representations situate Indigenous vibrancy outside large cities such as Taipei and Kaohsiung, despite the large-scale...
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Heterogeneous Governance, Claims Making and Forced Eviction in a Megacity
Residents of informal settlements worldwide face challenges defending their land tenure. In contexts with overlapping systems of governance these challenges are even more complex and claims to land tenure more precarious. How do heterogeneous systems of governance, a characteristic of some global South megacities,...
THE POWER OF IMPENDING ZONING: Governance through Inaction in a Secondary City in Burkina Faso
A comprehensive zoning plan has been under way for more than a decade for an urban informal settlement in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. In this article I explore the narratives and strategies of its residents in response to the impending restructuring, suggesting that the continual postponements of the zoning plan's...
JANUARY ISSUE
Detail from decolonizing urbanisms in the Taipei-Keelung metropolitan area of Taiwan through a collaborative art and countermapping project and exhibit by Indigenous artists and activists Chang En-man and Panai Runie Wang (detail from photo courtesy of Chang En-man, 2017)
A young girl walks through her neighborhood in the Otodo Gbame waterfront settlement in Lagos, Nigeria (photo © Brianna Castro, July 2016)
Detail from a municipality of Bobo-Dioulasso zoning plan superimposed on satellite image of the informal settlement of Sarfalao in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso (map data © 2010 Google maps, © 2010 Maxar Technologies)
