Geographies of Forced Eviction Dispossession, Violence, Resistance

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 a...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brickell, Katherine (Editor), Fernández Arrigoitia, Melissa (Editor), Vasudevan, Alexander (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Struggling for the Right to be Recognized
  • 2. The Right to Adequate Housing Following Forced Evictions in Post-Conflict Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • 3. Unsettling Resettlements
  • 4. “It Felt Like You Were at a War”
  • 5. Domicide and the Coalition
  • <6. Work, Power, and Resistance in Eviction Enforcement
  • 7. Home eviction, Grassroots Organizations and Citizen Empowerment in Spain
  • 8. Zwangsräumungen in Berlin