Geographies of Forced Eviction: Dispossession, Violence, Resistance (1st ed. 2017)

By: Katherine Brickell and Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia and Alexander Vasudevan

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Synopsis: This book offers a close look at forced evictions, drawing on empirical studies and conceptual frameworks from both the Global North and South. It draws attention to arenas where multiple logics of urban dispossession, violence and insecurity are manifest, and where wider socio-economic, political and legal struggles converge. The authors highlight the need to apply emotional and affective registers of dispossession and insecurity to the socio-political and financial economies driving forced evictions across geographic scales. The chapters each consider the distinct urban logics of precarious housing or involuntary displacements that stretch across London, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai and Colombo. A timely addition to existing literature on urban studies, this collection will be of great interest to policy makers and scholars of human geography, development studies, and sociology.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781137511270
Related ISBNs:: 9781137511263
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
Date of Addition:: 12/14/22
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Katherine Brickell
Edited by:: Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia
Edited by:: Alexander Vasudevan