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AGENCY AND POWER OF COASTAL COMMUNITIES: Assembling Micro Infrastructures as Everyday Resistance and Resilience in North Jakarta’s Port
The rise of the global supply chain has intensified the circulation of goods and capital across the world. While the body of literature on the politics and political-economy aspects of logistical expansion has grown, little attention has been given to understanding how coastal fishers’ communities interact with the...
CLIMATE-JUST HOUSING: A Socio-spatial Perspective on Climate Policy and Housing
Focusing on the nexus of climate and housing policy, this article analyzes the socio-spatial consequences of urban climate mitigation policies and the resultant need to broaden the concept of climate justice. By using the example of energy retrofitting in a low-income district in Kiel, Germany, the article examines...
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...
MAY ISSUE
One of three security gates forming an enclave in the neighbourhood of Onike, Lagos. The gate is painted in the distinctive colour of the Pentecostal church MFM (Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries), reflecting the church’s significant influence on the local urban landscape, infrastructure and everyday governance (photo by David Garbin, November 2022)
Section 17 of the South African Constitution guarantees a right to housing; this banner quotes that right and is on display in Cassie Gool House in Woodstock, a suburb of Cape Town (photo by Amanda Tattersall, June 2018)
A clothing store that sells fake branded clothes illustrates one of many forms of entrepreneurship present in the peripheries of São Paulo (photo by Leonardo Fontes taken in Ângela Jardim, São Paulo, September 2015)
