Urban resettlements in the Global South : : lived experiences of housing and infrastructure between displacement and relocation / / edited by Raffael Beier, Amandine Spire and Marie Bridonneau.

• Author: Huchzermeyer, Marie
• TeilnehmendeR: Beier, Raffael,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Routledge,, 2022.; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021; 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (243 pages)

"Urban Resettlements in the Global South provides new perspectives on resettlement through an urban studies lens. To date, resettlement has been theorized through development studies and refugee studies, but urban resettlement is also a major dimension of urban development in the Global South and may help to rethink contemporary urban dynamics between spectacular new town developments and rising incidences of eviction and displacement. Conceptualising resettlement as a binding notion between production/regeneration and destruction/demolition of urban space helps to illuminate interdependencies and to underline significant ambiguities within affected people's perspectives towards resettlement projects. This volume will offer an interesting selection of ten different case studies with rich empirical data from Latin America, North and SubSaharan Africa, and Asia, focused on each stage of resettlement (before, during, after) through different timescales. By offering a frame for analysing and rethinking resettlement within urban studies, it will support any scholar or expert dealing with resettlement, displacement, and housing in an urban context, seeking to improve housing and planning policies in and for the city"-- Provided by publisher.