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. Then we came here to my current camp where I have lived for three years. So, I came to Mogadishu five years ago.’ (Wiilo, Mogadishu, January 2018) Wiilo – whose experiences of rural to urban migration were introduced in the previous chapter – speaks about how her forced mobility continued after her arrival in Mogadishu from Lower Shabelle region. Over a period of five years, Wiilo lived in four camps, and had been evicted from three as the land was reclaimed by its purported owners. This chapter explores urbanization processes through the lens of settlement
Introduction This chapter applies global South ideas to an examination of planetary urbanization in an urban area conventionally located in the global North – Hartford, Connecticut. Southern concepts are highly relevant to understanding and remapping Hartford as a global urbanism. Developing an historical geography from indigenous, postcolonial, and Southern angles gives opportunities for detailing the specificities of planetarizing processes. Scholars need to look at longer-term processes producing planetary urbanization from elsewhere, to erase blind
This book set out to explore the nexus of displacement and urbanization from the viewpoint of people living at the urban margins in four Somali cities. Building on narrative interviews and photovoice, and using a micro-sociological and micro-spatial lens, we explored what people actually do when they have been forced to flee and decide to come to and settle in a city. How do they find shelter and a place to stay? What do they (have to) do to sustain themselves and their families? What infrastructures and technologies do they use to manage their basic needs
-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State border. ( UNOCHA, 2001 , 1) Based on estimates that globally ‘80 percent of all IDPs are living in urban areas’ ( Muggah and Abdenur, 2018 , 1), internal displacement is increasingly discussed in the context of urban studies and the intersection of violence, mobility and urbanization ( Beall et al, 2011 ; Bartlett et al, 2012 ; Potvin, 2013 ; Sanyal, 2016 ; Darling, 2017 ; Büscher, 2018 ; Büscher et al, 2018 ; Pech et al, 2018 ; Muggah and Abdenur, 2018 ; Şimşek-Çağlar and Glick Schiller
45 THREE Gypsies, nomads and urbanisation: a social history Since the mid 19th century questions surrounding the urbanisation of Gypsies, the consequences of increasing contact with ‘gaje’/‘gorjer’ (non-Gypsy) society and the qualitatively different nature of such interactions in urban contexts, have been central to scholarly debates concerning the origins and destiny of this group. According to Mayall (2004), the most basic distinction in this debate is between two paradigms. The first provides racial, linguistic and ancestral explanations highlighting
89 TWO Rapid urbanization and the growing demand for urban infrastructure in Africa Charles Leyeka Lufumpa and Tito Yepes Introduction Achieving sustainable economic growth, as a means of lifting the continent out of poverty, is the principal objective of Africa’s infrastructure agenda. The achievement of this goal relies on the productivity of firms and on ensuring better living conditions for individuals across the continent. Accordingly, strengthening the foundations for higher productivity in the main cities and ensuring a more even distribution of
Introduction Urban theory still has a ‘Southern’ problem, despite two decades of sustained critique of global-North-centered theories of urbanization. The problem may be different in different schools of thought, but most paths leave an enduring lacuna where global South intellectual understandings and conceptualizations of urbanization and globalization processes would otherwise drive scholarly analysis. In the previous chapter , indigenous, postcolonial, and Southern approaches and ideas helped to ‘re-member’ the historical geography of the urbanization
Over the past half century, Penang has grown from a largely rural state into an almost completely urbanized conurbation. The explosive land-use changes, rising civil society and environmental vulnerabilities, including flooding and landslides, have intertwined with the dynamics of urban transformations spreading far beyond the city’s boundaries. In this sense, Penang is illustrative of Asia’s rapidly urbanizing and globalizing cities which pose significant challenges to the development of socially and ecologically just futures. As such, the book has sought to
