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- Baeten, Guy, et al.
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Crisis in the City: Emergency Urbanism
- 2011
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper deals with the question how urban crises – whether political, economic, financial, environmental or social – are defined, constructed, or discursively and materially appropriated by urban elites to serve their agendas of urban reform. Inspired by the work of Klein (2007), Smith (2005) and others, it will be argued that specific ‘emergency’ framings of urban decline, impoverishment, disaster, or moments of (violent) disagreement with existing regimes, become shock doctrines that ‘naturalise’ very peculiar policy solutions while eliminating alternatives. In the process, a unifying urban-wide consensus is sculpted that hides the interest-specific interpretations of crisis and highlights the unavoidable nature of policy measures following from it. The alleged urgency to save ‘the’ city from downfall obliterates deep-rooted social conflict around class, gender, or ethnicity. Based on evidence from several neighbourhoods in Malmö, the paper will try to provide a partial answer to the question how ‘disaster urbanism’, or ‘emergency urbanism’, rewrites urban problems of violence, unemployment, segregration and polarization, disinvestment, financial breakdown, political uproar, etcetera, to push through policy reform that would otherwise meet considerable protest and resistance.
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- Baeten, Guy, et al.
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Keeping Out the Poor : Banishment as an Urban Renewal Strategy
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Ingår i: Housing Displacement. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138385559 - 9780429427046
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter argues that measures herald a new era of urban population management and urban renewal in Sweden. It finds the term 'banishment' particularly useful to grasp the new urban renewal tactics that are unfolding in Landskrona. Based on an empirical study of Landskrona's rental policies, the chapter aims to develop banishment as a concept to capture a certain variation of displacement that is currently difficult to place in the available conceptual apparatus. It argues elsewhere that the reluctance of municipalities to accept citizens on low income may lead to the emergence of 'city-less citizens' who have nowhere left to go since no municipality is prepared to enrol them. Banishment may not have immediate tangible effects, but it forces the banned to consider whether they are worthy of being in a place and whether it is worth fighting for it.
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