Journal
GEOFORUM
Volume 101, Issue -, Pages 182-191Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.09.008
Keywords
Body politics; Urban precarity; Housing struggle; Processual methodology; Roma people; Bucharest
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- Urban Studies Foundation, Glasgow (UK)
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The paper provides a nuanced reading of the ways in which conditions of precarity arising from forced evictions are 'made' and 'unmade' in their unfolding, offering a way to appreciate their performative politics. Grounded in an activist ethnography of evictions against Roma people in Bucharest, Romania, the work provides a reading of urban precarity as not only an embodied product, but also a producer of the urban political. It advances an innovative methodology to investigate the politics of urban precarity, which focuses around four intersecting processes: the historical pre-makings of precarity; the discursive and material displacement of its in-making; embodied resistance as a form of un-making; and authoritarian responses as its re-making. Through its theoretical and methodological insights, the paper contributes to scholarship interested in a critical understanding of embodiment, politics, and urban precarity beyond the analysed case.
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