Introduction

Author(s):  
Avner de Shalit

Immigration should be discussed within the context of the city rather than the state because cities are now quite autonomous political entities and because nearly all immigrants settle in cities. Hence the meeting between locals and immigrants take place in the context of urban life rather than as citizens of the state. The book’s three questions are presented: should cities be in charge of deciding whether to allow immigrants to settle in the city? If yes, what local political rights should be granted to immigrants? And is there a model of integration which is superior to other models? The latter involved a comparative study of three such models, in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Jerusalem.

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorena Muñoz

During the past 20 years, street vendors in various cities in the Global South have resisted aggressive state sanctioned removals and relocation strategies by organizing for vendors’ rights, protesting, and creating street vending member organizations with flexible relationships to the local state. Through these means, street vendors claim “rights in the city,” even as the bodies they inhabit and the spaces they produce are devalued by state legitimizing systems. In this article, I present a case study of the Union de Tianguistas y Comerciantes Ambulantes del Estado de Quintana Roo, a “bottom-up” driven, flexible street vending membership organization not formalized by the state in Cancún. I argue that the Union becomes a platform for street vendors to claim rights to the city, and exemplifies vending systems that combine economic activities with leisure spaces in marginalized urban areas, and circumvent strict vending regulations without being absorbed into or directly monitored by the state. Highlighting the Union’s sustainable practices of spatial transformation, and vision of self-managed spaces of socioeconomic urban life in Cancún, illuminates how the members of the Union claim rights to the city as an example of a process of awakening toward imagining possibilities for urban futures that moves away from the state and capitalists systems, and akin to what Lefebvre termed autogestion toward resisting neoliberal ideologies that currently dominate urban planning projects in the Global South.


Ethnography ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maziyar Ghiabi

The article provides an ethnographic study of the lives of the ‘dangerous class’ of drug users based on fieldwork carried out among different drug using ‘communities’ in Tehran between 2012 and 2016. The primary objective is to articulate the presence of this category within modern Iran, its uses and its abuses in relation to the political. What drives the narration is not only the account of this lumpen, plebeian group vis à vis the state, but also the way power has affected their agency, their capacity to be present in the city, and how capital/power and the dangerous/lumpen life come to terms, to conflict, and to the production of new situations which affect urban life.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9s11 ◽  
pp. 41-65
Author(s):  
Maarten Hendriks

Empirically focusing on the so-called anti-gang, a civilian policing group in the city of Goma (DRC), this article examines the nexus between the workings of the imagination and the politics of everyday policing. Four forms of political imaginations through which the anti-gang imagine themselves as everyday policing actors are identified: political imaginations around the state, citizenship, the father, and martial arts and action movies. The article makes two main arguments. First, political imaginations are not merely fantasies. Instead, the anti-gang harness them to do political work and impose themselves as street authorities. In doing so, they in turn contribute to giving form to these political imaginations, by making them tangible and experienced as real in everyday urban life. Second, the article asserts that the political imaginations that shape and are shaped by anti-gang practices show that they do not so much propose a new political order. Instead, they seek to be included in it, escape marginalisation and become politically significant.


2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 1013-1035
Author(s):  
Deborah Sutton

This article considers the relationship between the official, legislated claims of heritage conservation in India and the wide range of episodic and transitory inhabitations that have animated and transformed the monumental remains of the city, or rather cities, of Delhi. Delhi presents a spectrum of monumental structures that appear variously to either exist in splendid isolation from the rush of everyday urban life or to peek out amidst a palimpsest of unplanned, urban fabric. The repeated attempts of the state archaeological authorities to disambiguate heritage from the quotidian life of the city was frustrated by bureaucratic lapses, casual social occupations, and deliberate challenges. The monuments offered structural and spatial canvases for lives within the city, providing shelter, solitude, and the possibility of privacy, as well as devotional and commercial opportunity. The dominant comportment of the city's monuments during the twentieth century was a hybrid monumentality, in which the jealous, legislated custody of the state became anxious, ossified, and ineffectual. An acknowledgement and acceptance of the hybridity of Delhi's monuments offers an opportunity to reorient understandings of urban heritage.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Rafael Ademir Oliveira de Andrade ◽  
Estevão Rafael Fernandes

O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar as compreensões organizadas em torno da observação participante e do enfrentamento de leituras fundamentais sobre a questão das etnogêneses e identidades no Estado de Rondônia enquanto reorganizações dos elementos culturais do grupo aqui analisado, a etnia Cassupá, moradores de perímetro urbano na cidade de Porto Velho, estado de Rondônia. Assim, mesclando elementos observados, o que representa nossa metodologia, e aproximações teóricas sobre a organização cultural de indígenas em contexto urbano pretende-se levantar um discurso dialogado sobre a questão, apresentando no desenvolvimento e conclusão as observações traçadas neste contexto. Ethnicity and Identity in Urban Context: The Cassupá de Porto Velho (RO) The objective of this article is to present the understandings organized by the researchers around the participant observation and the confrontation of fundamental readings with the intention of apprehending the constituent elements on the ethnogenesis and indigenous identities in urban territory in the State of Rondônia while reorganizations of the elements cultural activities. The group analyzed here, the Cassupá ethnic group, is composed of urban perimeters in the city of Porto Velho, in the state of Rondônia, where they organize for their political rights and the continuity of their cultures. Thus, merging observed elements, which represents our methodology, and theoretical approaches on the cultural organization of indigenous people in an urban context is intended to raise a dialogue about the issue, presenting in the development and conclusion the observations drawn in this context.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Weberson Ferreira Dias ◽  
Sara Pereira De Deus ◽  
Geovanna De Lourdes Alves Ramos

O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar as compreensões organizadas pelos pesquisadores em torno da observação participante e do enfrentamento de leituras fundamentais com a intenção de apreender os elementos constitutivos sobre a questão das etnogêneses e identidades de indígenas em território urbano no Estado de Rondônia enquanto reorganizações dos elementos culturais. O grupo aqui analisado, a etnia Cassupá, é composto por moradores de perímetro urbano na cidade de Porto Velho, estado de Rondônia, onde se organizam pelos seus direitos políticos e pela continuidade das suas culturas. Assim, mesclando elementos observados, o que representa nossa metodologia, e aproximações teóricas sobre a organização cultural de indígenas em contexto urbano pretende-se levantar um discurso dialogado sobre a questão, apresentando no desenvolvimento e conclusão as observações traçadas neste contexto. Reterritorialization and Popular Culture: the Ritualistic Representations in the Auto of the Rosary Ox in Pirenópolis (Go) The objective of this article is to present the understandings organized by the researchers around the participant observation and the confrontation of fundamental readings with the intention of apprehending the constituent elements on the ethnogenesis and indigenous identities in urban territory in the State of Rondônia while reorganizations of the elements cultural activities. The group analyzed here, the Cassupá ethnic group, is composed of urban perimeters in the city of Porto Velho, in the state of Rondônia, where they organize for their political rights and the continuity of their cultures. Thus, merging observed elements, which represents our methodology, and theoretical approaches on the cultural organization of indigenous people in an urban context is intended to raise a dialogue about the issue, presenting in the development and conclusion the observations drawn in this context.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Nikita Desverose ◽  
Priyatmoko Priyatmoko

This research focuses on upholding political justice in elections for mentally disabled people, more precisely about how the state and its institutions seek to restore political rights and implement inclusive election policies for person with mental disabilities regarding their participation in elections and their right to vote when election. This research takes two main topics, namely restoration of political rights of mentally disabled people in elections through the regulation of the Election Law, and the making of special rules to accommodate the needs of mental disabled people in elections and the implementation of these policies in the 2019 elections in the city of Surabaya. Data obtained through the analysis of news content and interviews with sources that are then processed and explained qualitatively descriptive. The theory used in this research is electoral justice theory, with a focus on conformity in the field with elements of justice in the electoral justice system. The results obtained are in the first part, the regulation carried out by the government based on complaints from community organizations that focus on defending mental disability rights and electoral issues, meets the criteria for fulfilling rights and distributing justice first where the state gives equal rights for everyone to channel their voice in elections, without discriminating any group by giving them access to the right to be registered as DPT and entitled to participate in the election process. In the second part, it discussed the implementation of the policy in the city of Surabaya, specifically at the Menur Hospital and found that the state tried to accommodate the political rights of the mentally disabled in elections by providing more specific technical rules by adjusting the conditions and needs of the mentally disabled, which according to the elements election justice which requires electoral governance to protect citizens' voting rights. The final conclusion of this study illustrates how the state and its institutions fulfill the elements of the electoral justice system in distributing justice in elections, for people with mental disabilities in Indonesia, especially in the city of Surabaya in the 2019 Elections.


Slavic Review ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 847-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Hoffmann

When an eighteen-year-old peasant named Evgenii Mikhailovich Kostin stepped off a train in Moscow in October 1931 he felt overwhelmed by milling throngs of unfamiliar people and frightened by the commotion of the city. Yet his adjustment to urban life proved much less traumatic than his initial impression had portended; relatives housed him, an acquaintance from his village found him a job, and friends showed him around Moscow. Kostin was one of at least 23 million Soviet peasants who moved permanently to cities between 1926 and 1939—marking what demographers estimate to be the most rapid urbanization in world history. In the First Five-Year Plan alone Moscow’s population increased nearly 60 percent (an added 1,349,500 people) to reach 3,663,300 by the end of 1932. Scholars have portrayed peasant in-migration to Soviet cities during the 1930s either as a phenomenon tightly regulated by the state or, alternatively, as chaos and upheaval; but, as this article will demonstrate, the process by which peasants found their way to Moscow during the First Five-Year Plan was neither controlled nor chaotic.


1991 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 720-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susannah Foster Baxendale

Political exile punished an offending individual through public humiliation, deprivation of political rights, separation from family and friends, from business and property. This situation was difficult but manageable for an individual since he and his dependents could turn to members of the extended family for aid and comfort. However, if all the family's men were banished, the situation was potentially catastrophic. The Alberti, a prominent Florentine merchant-banking family, found itself in just such a situation. In January 1401, all Alberti men were exiled from the city of Florence for conspiracy against the state; they were not allowed to return until 1428. This paper will explore the consequences of their long and unusual banishment from Florence.


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