Urban Regimes of Dispossession in the Global South

A New Debate
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-52217-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 333, 275 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

This edited volume develops a theoretical framework—what we call urban regimes of dispossession—for understanding how urban actors organize dispossession and govern the urban dispossessed, how the urban dispossessed arrange, experience and resist dispossession, and how urban dispossession contributes to creating/expanding capitalist systems or transforming urban societies in the global south. The book's main arguments are built on a survey of the nearly two-hundred-year history of global dispossession studies and solid empirical evidence from three continents—Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and seven countries— Bangladesh, Brazil, Honduras, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, and Uganda. Eighteen scholars bring diverse perspectives and realities on urban dispossession, which will appeal to students, scholars, planners, and practitioners across various social scientific disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, urban studies, political economy, international relations, political science, economics, gender studies, and geography.

Contributors are: Shapan Adnan, Orlando Alves dos Santos Junior, Fred Bidandi, David L. Brunsma, Tarcyla Fidalgo Ribeiro, Lakshmi Jahnavi, Marie Kolling, Ana Maria Kumarasamy, Barbara Lipietz, Lipon Mondal, Adrian Murray, John Nagle, Victor Udemezue Onyebueke, Taísa Sanches, Karen Spring, Susan Spronk, Luanda Vannuchi and Julian Walker.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brunsma, David L.

Mondal, Lipon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaft: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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, Taísa 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 Brazil’s Roofless Population Marie Kolling 10 From Dispossession to Repossessions: Indigenous Retomadas in the Fragmented City Luanda Vannuchi

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.