Identity, Justice and Resistance in the Neoliberal City
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- References -- 2: Facing Commodification: Subaltern Tactics in a Working-Class Tokyo Neighbourhood -- Everyday Life and Political Practices -- Getting by at the Margins of the Commodified Urban Society -- Reversal of Power Relations -- Negotiation -- Bypassing -- Encroachment -- Decommodification and the Building of Autonomy -- The Building of Autonomous Spaces -- Emancipation -- References -- 3: Coping with the Threat of Evictions: Commercialisation of Slum Development and Local Power Play in Ahmedabad, India -- Introduction -- The Research Areas in the Context of Neoliberal Exclusion -- The Changing Slum Policies in Ahmedabad -- Slum Renovation Towards Growth: Antecedents of the SNP -- Roles of NGOs and CBOs -- Slum Policies after 2005: Infrastructural Development and Rehabilitation -- The Rise and Fall of Community Organising in the Slums -- Neighbourhood Social Fragmentation and Local Power Play -- Rebuilding Life after the Communal Violence, and Unmet Expectation from NGOs -- Negotiation with Political and Civil Societies -- Power of the Leaders in a Fragmented Settlement -- Privatisation of the Slum Land: Whither the Residents and NGOs? -- Conclusions -- References -- 4: Refounded Neighbourhoods and Spatial Justice: The Inhabitants' Attitudes Towards Urban Segregation -- Refusing Critique: Futility of Individual Pursuit of Spatial Justice and Reductio Ad Barbarum -- Dealing with Critique: Moral Arbitrations Concerning the Avoidance of Social Diversity -- Redirecting Critique: Focusing on the Perverse Effects of Aggregation in the Refounded Neighbourhoods -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Urban Rent Speculation, Uncertainty and Unknowns as Strategy and Resistance in Istanbul's Housing Market -- Introduction: From Neighbourhoods to Towers