Gebundenes Buch

Urban Resettlements in the Global South

Lived Experiences of Housing and Infrastructure between Displacement and Relocation

Herausgeber: Beier, Raffael; Bridonneau, Marie; Spire, Amandine

Beschreibung

By offering a frame for analysing and rethinking resettlement within urban studies, this book 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.

Autor

Raffael Beier is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the department of International Planning Studies at TU Dortmund University, Germany. During the time of co-editing and writing, he was working as the coordinator of the PhD programme in International Development Studies at the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy at Ruhr University Bochum and was further associated with the Centre for Built Environment Studies (CUBES) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Currently, he is leading a research project on dropout and post-resettlement mobilities in state-led affordable housing projects, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Amandine Spire is Assistant Professor in Geography at the Centre for Social Sciences Studies on Africa, America and Asia (CESSMA) of the University of Paris, where she researches migration and urban issues and leads courses on urban and social geography. Her current research focuses on power relations and city dwellers' subjectivities in cities in the Global South, particularly in Lomé (Togo) and Accra (Ghana). From 2014 to 2019, she led a research program on the right to the city in the Global South and she focused her research on the relocation and urban resettlement of city dwellers in Africa. Marie Bridonneau is an Assistant Professor in Geography at the University of Paris-Nanterre and a member of the LAVUE research unit. She has also been the director of the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) since September 2018. Her research deals with urban dynamics (involuntary displacements, small towns, urban peripheries) and politics of cultural heritage in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780367644444
• ISBN-10: 0367644444
• Artikelnr.: 62232611