Journal Article10.1016/J.GEOFORUM.2017.07.028
Forced (queer) migration and everyday violence: The geographies of life, death, and access in Cape Town
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the violent processes in which state-structured violence embedded in the heteronormative urban space impedes the survival of forcibly displaced queer people.
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About: This article is published in Geoforum. The article was published on 01 Feb 2018. The article focuses on the topics: Queer & Right to the city.
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What kind of right is the right to the city
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The ‘Right to the City’: Institutional Imperatives of a Developmental State
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors start from the proposition that a universal rights agenda can and should be fulfilled as an alternative to neoliberal aspirations, and that to achieve this development action will be needed on a series of different scales.
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The Geography of Survival and the Right to the City: Speculations on Surveillance, Legal Innovation, and the Criminalization of Intervention
Don Mitchell,Nik Heynen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on three trends that are simultaneously restructuring this geography of survival: the rise of automated surveillance (CCTV), innovations in trespass law, and the criminalization of sharing food in public.
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Augmented informality: South Africa's backyard dwellings as a by-product of formal housing policies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the new dimensions of informal backyard housing, both for landlords and tenants, as a consequence of South Africa's formal housing policies and found that a new class of cash-poor homeowners who are dependent on income from backyard dwellers' rent, thus ensuring a more equitable power pendulum between landlord and tenant.
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