In Urban Regimes of Dispossession, the authors examine how urban elites organize dispossession and govern the urban dispossessed. They also explore the ways the urban dispossessed experience and resist dispossession. Additionally, they analyse the role of dispossession in re-producing capitalist systems or transforming urban societies in the global south.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Figures, Tables, and Photos
Notes on Contributors
1 Towards a New Debate on Urban Dispossession in the Global South
Lipon Mondal and David L. Brunsma
Part 1 The Formal Regime of Dispossession
2 Innovative Finance and Urban Dispossession: A Plan for Everyone for a
Better Life in Honduras
Adrian Murray, Karen Spring, and Susan Spronk
3 Legitimized Evictions: Ambiguous Uses of Legal Instruments for
Displacement in Urban Nigeria
Julian Walker, Victor Udemezue Onyebueke, and Barbara Lipietz
4 The Legal Regime of Dispossession in Urban India: a Study of Slum Evictions
in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam
Lakshmi Jahnavi
Part 2 The Informal Regime of Dispossession
5 Punishing the Urban Poor: a Violent Logic of Dispossession in Neoliberal
Bangladesh
Lipon Mondal and David L. Brunsma
6 Illegalism, Dispossession, and Urban Space Production: the Case of the
Militialization of Rio de Janeiro
Orlando Alves dos Santos Junior, Taķsa Sanches, and Tarcyla Fidalgo
Ribeiro
7 The Politics of Urban Planning and Dispossession in Kampala, Uganda
Fred Bidandi
Part 3 The Subaltern Regime of Dispossession
8 Contesting Urban Dispossession in Postwar Cities: Civic Protest in Beirut
Ana Maria Kumarasamy and John Nagle
9 Staging Dispossession: Struggles for Eviction and Inclusion among Brazils
Roofless Population
Marie Kolling
10From Dispossession to Repossessions: Indigenous Retomadas in the
Fragmented City
Luanda Vannuchi
Index
Lipon Mondal, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Dhaka. He has published nearly a dozen articles in top-notch journals, including Urban Studies, the Journal of World-Systems Research, and the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. His research focuses on global political economy, world-systems analyses, urban sociology, labour control, and sociological theory.
David L. Brunsma, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. He was founding co-Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and is founding co-Editor of the book series by the same name at University of Georgia Press. He studies race, racism, whiteness, and racialization.
