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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Land Occupations"”.
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The Political Economy of Social Reproduction and Survival: Urban Land Occupations in Stellenbosch, South Africa
Across the world, urban land occupations have emerged as prominent features and manifestations of contemporary global crises. This trend of land occupation continues to grow exponentially as intensified commodification, labour precarity, and immiseration deepen the crisis of reproduction faced by …
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Planning in Cape Towns interstices: case studies of informal land occupations in Cape Town, South Africa
… rights of others in the manner that informal land occupations do. Often characterised as a problem, informal land (whereby land is defined broadly to include vacant and under-utilised buildings) occupations and, consequently, the numbers of autoconstructed and retrofitted housing have not only …
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The apotheosis of the green revolution and the throes of landless peasant women in two Aegean villages of Turkey in the 1960s
… development project, the GreenRevolution, on landless peasant women in two Aegean villages, Göllüce and Atalan, in Turkey by focusing on the changing material conditions of production, the genderless class-based organization of land occupations, state policies targeting rural women, mutually …
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Land and identity in Zimbabwean fiction writings in English from 2000 to 2010 critical analysis
… voices across the racial divide explore the land-identity conundrum that is hotly contested in the aftermath of Zimbabwe's post-2000 land occupations and other redistribution processes. It aims to interrogate how the selected fictional narratives depict both long-held views and emerging …
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Within and Against the Market: The Guatemalan Campesino Movement under Neoliberal Peace
… movement, based in mostly indigenous small and landless farmers, has organized for agrarian reform since the 1970s. This dissertation explores the movement since the end of the Guatemalan armed conflict in 1996, weighing the impact of such factors as the peace process and a neoliberal …
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Water and sociality in Khayelitsha: an ethnographic study
… neighbourliness, water usage at communal points, land occupations, and strikes, amongst others. By combining the structural issues and aspects of social practices provided above, water is seen as a substance that constructs social formations through the phenomena of incompleteness and …
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Imagination in the public domain: The case of the homeless workers movement (MTST) in São Paulo, Brazil
… MTST’s documents, and participant observation of land occupations and meetings. Two conceptual poles guide this research: first, understanding future as a spatiotemporal layer in the city palimpsest. This means a set of images of the future ─ in tension with each other and with memories of the …