Neither dead nor alive: Participatory slum governance as a zombie program

Article Regional & Urban Planning

The trajectory of the right to the city in Recife, Brazil: From belonging towards inclusion

Sven da Silva et al.

Summary: The article examines the trajectory of the Right to the City (RTC) in Recife, Brazil, utilizing Alain Badiou's set-theoretical ontology. It reveals the disjuncture between belonging and inclusion and argues that while the implementation of RTC led to some achievements in participation, subsequent incorporation into a discourse of inclusivity resulted in a decline in popular participation. However, the emancipatory and revolutionary potential of RTC can still be powerful as long as the contradiction between people's desire for belonging and capital's drive for inclusion is foregrounded.

PLANNING THEORY (2022)

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Article Geography

Exploring the connection between spatial justice and land tenure security: insights from inclusive urban (re)development schemes in Recife, Brazil

Ernest Uwayezu et al.

Summary: This study examines the relationship between spatial justice and land tenure security, and finds that pursuing spatial justice can enhance tenure security for all urban dwellers, especially the poor and low-income. By recognizing rights to land, housing, and basic urban amenities and involving marginalized groups in urban development planning, spatial justice can promote integration and improve perceived and de facto tenure security.

GEOJOURNAL (2022)

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Article Environmental Studies

Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert

Julia Sizek

Summary: This paper introduces the concept of "zombie infrastructure" to analyze the entangled histories of railroad colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, and corporate power in the California desert, using the Cadiz project as a case study. It argues that contemporary capitalists revive old infrastructures for new purposes, demonstrating the intersection of laws, monstrosity, and dispossession in modern infrastructure politics.

ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE (2021)

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Article Anthropology

The ambivalence of slum politics in reactionary times in Recife, Brazil

Sven da Silva et al.

Summary: By examining the politics of slums in Recife, Brazil, the paper highlights the ambivalence of slum politics in terms of solidarity and opportunism. It suggests that engaging in a politics of refusal based on memories of destitution, eviction, and struggle may be a better way for slum dwellers to address internal contradictions than the politics of negotiation proposed by reformist political forces.

DIALECTICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (2021)

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Article Environmental Studies