Urban Resettlements in the Global South

<p><em>Urban Resettlements in the Global South</em> provides new perspectives on resettlement through an urban studies lens. To date, resettlement has been theorised through development studies and refugee studies, but urban resettlement is also a major dimension of urban development in the Global South and may help to rethink contemporary urban dynamics between spectacular new town developments and rising incidences of eviction and displacement. Conceptualising resettlement as a binding notion between production/regeneration and destruction/demolition of urban space helps to illuminate interdependencies and to underline significant ambiguities within affected people’s perspectives towards resettlement projects. This volume will offer an interesting selection of ten different case studies with rich empirical data from Latin America, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, focused on each stage of resettlement (before, during, after relocation) through different timescales. By offering a frame for analysing and rethinking resettlement within urban studies, it 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.</p> <p>1. Introduction. Positioning ‘Urban Resettlement’ in the Global Urban South <em>Raffael Beier, Amandine Spire, Marie Bridonneau, and Corentin Chanet </em><strong>PART 1: Neoliberal Governance and Spatial Reordering </strong>2. Slum redevelopment, differentiated resettlement and transit camp. The Kathputli Colony rehabilitation project in Delhi <em>Véronique Dupont and M.M. Shankare Gowda </em>3. The politics of urban resettlement: spatial governmentality, soft constraints and everyday life in Lomé, Togo <em>Amandine Spire and Francesca Pilo </em>4. Transforming political subjectivities through resettlement in Córdoba, Argentina: from poor citizens to poor consumers <em>Juliana Hernández Bertone, Candela de la Vega, and María Alejandra Ciuffolini </em><strong>PART 2: Experiencing Change Through Notions of Home and Shelter </strong>5. Narratives of Home and Neighbourhood: Rethinking risk in informal and state-delivered settlements in Durban <em>Sogen Moodley and Kira Erwin</em> 6. "The house is nice, but …" Looking beyond shelter in shantytown resettlement in Casablanca, Morocco. <em>Raffael Beier</em> 7. Resettlement and the everyday production of lived space: urban informality as a way of life in Tehran, Iran <em>Toktam Ashnaiy and Erhard Berner</em> <strong>PART 3: Long-term Perspectives </strong>8. The production of (re)settlements in Maputo, Mozambique: hovering between habitats and inhabited spaces <em>Sílvia Jorge and Vanessa Melo </em>9. Experiencing the politics of resettlement in Lalibela (Ethiopia) through time: from displacement to the impossible rebuilding of ordinary lives <em>Marie Bridonneau </em><strong>OUTLOOK </strong>10. Rethinking urban resettlement and displacement from the perspective of ‘home’ in the interruption and uncertainty brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic <em>Marie Huchzermeyer </em>Index</p>