Next meeting of the seminar « Territories and informalities in Cities » : Glyn Williams (Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield) : “Making Space for Women in Urban Politics? Leadership and Claim-making in a Kerala Slum Upgrade Project“.

 

Monday, 5th mai, 14h to 16h
Building Olympe de Gouges, room 268 (2nd floor)

The intervention will make reference to:

1. on the relationship between formal and informal politics:

Blom Hansen, T 2004 Politics as permanent performance: the production of political authority in the locality in A Wyatt, J Zavos and V Hewitt, (eds.) The Politics of Cultural Mobilisation in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 20-36.

Blom Hansen, T 2005 Sovereigns beyond the State: On Legality and Authority in Urban India in Blom Hansen, T and Stepputat, F  (eds.) Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants and States in the Postcolonial World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP. 169-191

Lund, C. (2006a). “Twilight Institutions: An Introduction.” Development and Change 37(4): 673-684

Lund, C. (2006b). “Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa.” Development and Change 37(4): 685-705

Partha Chatterjee, 2004. ‘Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World’ (Columbia University Press, 2004)

Partha Chatterjee 2011 The Debate Over Political Society Chapter 14 of Ajay Gudavarthy (ed), 2011, Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India: Interrogating Political Society. London: Anthem Press 305-322.

2. on the interface between ‘invited’ spaces for participation and urban politics in India:

Coelho, K., L. Kamath, and M Vijaybaskar (2011). Infrastructures of consent: interrogating citizen participation mandates in Indian urban governance. IDS Working Paper Series (Working Paper 362) Brighton, IDS.

3. for (hopefully!) accessible introductions to Kerala’s politics:

Heller, P 2001. Moving the State: the politics of democratic decentralization in Kerala, South Africa, and Porto Alegre. Politics and Society 29 (1), 131-163

Heller, P 2009 “Making Citizens from Below: India’s Emerging Local Government” in Gary Bland and Cynthia J. Arnson, editors Democratic Deficits: Addressing Challenges to Sustainability and Consolidation Around the World. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 85-1

Williams, G., Thampi, B.V., Narayana, D., Nandigama, S., and Bhattacharyya, D. (2011). Performing Participatory Citizenship: Politics and Power in Kerala’s Kudumbashree Programme, Journal of Development Studies 47(8): 1261-1280

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March, 14th, 2014, Lecture by Nicolas Bautès (with Véronique Dupont, IRD-CESSMA) to the seminar “Right to the City”  (coord. M. Morange, A. Spire) : “Mobilizations around Precarious Settlements in Delhi (India) and Rio de Janeiro  (Brazil): which Registers of Justification?”, CESSMA, Paris 7 Denis-Diderot University.

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Cultures Monde radio program on the Geography of the Night, May 27th 2013 with the participation of Jérôme Tadié.

The program can be podcasted on the website of the program

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Next meeting of the seminar « Territories and informalities in Cities » : Ayona Datta, the illegal city. Space, law and gender in Dehli’s slums.
Ayona Data, school of geography, university of Leeds
Friday, 26th April, 10h30 to 12h30, room 870, building Olympe de Gouges, University Paris-Diderot, rue Albert Einstein, 8e floor.
The intervention will make reference to :
– Appadurai, A. 2001. Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics. Environment and Urbanization,
13(2), 23–43.
– Benjamin, W. 1978. Critique of Violence. In Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by W. Benjamin and
P. Demetz, New York: Schocken Books, 277–300.
– Datta, A 2012. ‘Introduction’, in The Illegal City: Space, Law and gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement, Farnham: Ashgate. .
– Holston, J. 2008. ‘Chapter 6: Legalizing the Illegal’ in Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and modernity in
Brazil, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp 203-232.

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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013, 2-4pm:

Guillaume Sauloup: “Informality against Marginality, a Paradoxical Dynamic in the Streets of Greater Khartoum”

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Wednesday March 20th 2013, 10-12, Geography Institute of Geography, room 411

Judicaëlle Dietrich : « Informality and Power Structures in the Management of Poverty in Jakarta »

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 2-4pm:

Seminar « Territories and Informality in Cities »,  F.Dorso: “Relief Valves of the City, Cases of compromise around informal habits in France and Turkey”

Selected readings:

– G. Bachelard, 2009 (1957), La poétique de l’espace, Puf, Paris, pp 27-29.
– M. Blanc,1998, « La transaction, un processus de production et d’apprentissage du “vivre-ensemble” », in Blanc, M., Freynet,
M.F. et Pineau, G. (dir.), 1998, Les Transactions aux frontières du social, Chronique Sociale, Lyon, pp. 219-238.
– F. Dorso, 2007, « Batailles territoriales et symboliques autour de la muraille de Théodose II à Istanbul », Espaces et Sociétés,
n° 130, 3/2007, pp 103-117.

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J. Tadié, “Fires, Urban Environments, and Politics in Contemporary Jakarta”, in G.Bankoff, U. Lübken, J.Sand (ed.), Flammable Cities. Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World, Madison, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, p.372-389.

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« Gomorra, the Other Side of Appearances. Producing the City, Producing the Novel », by Fabrizio Maccaglia

 

Available here (in French)

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On the operations of pacification and on communitary police in Rio de Janeira, see the forthcoming article of Nicolas Bautès and Rafael Soares Gonçalves, “Improving Security in Poor Areas”, in Justice Spatiale-Spatial Justice end of 2011, http://www.jssj.org/

Abstract :

This paper analyses the recent measures taken by the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro concerning public security in the context of several international events being organised in the city, including the 2016 Olympic Games. Falling within the framework of the Federal Programme of Security and Citizenship (Pronasci), these measures aim first and foremost at improving security in several favelas of the city by establishing so-called Pacifying Police Units (UPP). With the study of spatial logics prevailing in the establishment of these units in strategically selected districts, associated with that of the daily practices of residents in several favelas of Rio alongside community-based police forces, we were able to characterise the close link between public security and urban policies. Beyond the displayed objectives of social peace preservation, we examine this link to question the permanence of social difficulties experienced by the majority of favela residents, and to question the underlying land and real estate stakes revealed by these actions. Does the evolution of intervention methods in urban public security, which appears to be closely related to territorial marketing strategies, reflect the unequal and possibly unfair treatment of some of the poorest areas of the city, or does it, on the contrary, lead to considering new means of security provision in areas highly affected by violence, poverty and a lack of public services?

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