On Marx’s human significance, Harvey’s right to the city, and Nussbaum’s capability approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Basta
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Human Capability ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

In this article, I juxtapose David Harvey’s idea of the ‘right to the city’ and Martha Nussbaum’s central human capability of ‘control over one’s environment’, and I approach them from the perspective of their mutual convergence on Marx’s conception of human significance. In particular, I compare how Marx’s conception reverberates in Harvey’s right to the city as human right and in Nussbaum’s control over the environment as central human capability. I discuss how the language of capabilities through which the latter scholar articulates her political liberalism offers ‘important supplementations’ to the language of human rights through which the former scholar articulates his critical discourse. I conclude that the evaluative character of Nussbaum’s capability approach could advance a novel stream in planning theory centred on human development. To elaborate on such potential, I propose the notion of people’s ‘urban functionings’, and I discuss how this notion could provide new interpretative lenses through which to renew the idea of ‘right to the city’.

“The Right-To-The-City Question” and Indigenous Urban Populations in Capital Cities in Cameroon

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambe J Njoh
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This paper explores the implications of state land tenure modernization and urbanization-promotion initiatives for human rights in Cameroon. The aim is to promote understanding of the implications of these initiatives for the right-to-the-city of indigenous urban residents. It is argued that the implications are more severe in politico-administrative headquarters than elsewhere in the country. Three different cities have served, at some point, as national politico-administrative headquarters in Cameroon, the study’s empirical referent. The designation of any city as a politico-administrative headquarters invariably creates a land scarcity problem in that city. The problem is aggravated for the city’s indigenous population by colonial and post-colonial planning policies. For this reason, the policies are said to be in violation of basic human rights as stipulated by the UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights as well as the African Charter.

scholarly journals MORADIA NO SÉCULO XXI: ativo financeiro ou direito social?

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 839
Author(s):  
Sávio Silva de Almeida ◽  
Cristina Pereira de Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

O presente ensaio tem como objetivo analisar o aprofundamento da mercantilização do direito à moradia, sob a hegemonia neoliberal. A metodologia empregada envolve uma extensa revisão de literatura com vistas a contribuir com os estudos sobre a urbanização, movimentos sociais urbanos, direito à cidade e à moradia digna. Na primeira seção, o texto trata do processo de urbanização sob o capitalismo. Na segunda seção, aborda as lutas promovidas no âmbito jurídico pelos movimentos sociais brasileiros que construíram a moradia como um direito humano social. Na terceira seção, apresentauma reflexão sobre a financeirização da moradia. Conclui que o aprofundamento da financeirização da moradia representa o novo paradigma da urbanização capitalista a ser superado pelos movimentos sociais, para que o Estado possa atuar no sentido de garantir a moradia como um direito social.Palavras-chave: Urbanização. Direito à moradia. Neoliberalismo.HOUSING IN THE 21th CENTURY? Financial asset or social right?AbstractThe present essay aims to analyze the deepening of the commodification of the right to housing, under neoliberal hegemony. The methodology involves an extensive literature review that approach the proposed theme intending to contribute to studies on urbanization, urban social movements, right to the city and right to housing. In the first section, the text seeks to reflect on the process of urbanization under capitalism. In the second, brings to reflect on the struggles promoted in the legal sphere by the Brazilian social movements that built housing as a social human right. In the third, the text presents a reflection on the financialization of housing. It concludes that the deepening of the financialization of housing represents the new paradigm of capitalist urbanization to be overcome by social movements, so that the State can act in the sense of guaranteeing housing as a social right.Keywords: Urbanization. Right to housing. Neoliberalism.

scholarly journals EL DERECHO A LA CIUDAD CON PERSPECTIVA DE GÉNERO (THE RIGHT TO THE CITY WITH A GENDER PERSPECTIVE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (15) ◽  
pp. 104-131
Author(s):  
Claudia Elena Robles Cardoso ◽  
Carlos Muñiz Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Resumen: Las ciudades como catalizadores de derechos humanos han asumido la tarea fundamental de proveer el bienestar esencial para los ciudadanos. La responsabilidad de garantizar el derecho a la ciudad se ha abordado sin tomar en cuenta las diferentes necesidades que cada grupo poblacional requiere, en específico se ha omitido la perspectiva de género como un elemento fundamental para las políticas públicas de las ciudades, haremos un breve recorrido por la forma tan distinta en que hombres y mujeres viven las ciudades, así como las grandes deudas que requiere asumir el derecho a la ciudad.Palabras clave: Derecho a la Ciudad, Perspectiva de Género, Empoderamiento, Mujer, Seguridad y Movilidad. Abstract: Cities as catalysts for human rights have assumed the fundamental task of providing essential well-being for citizens. The responsibility of guaranteeing the right to the city has been addressed without taking into account the different needs that each population group requires, specifically the gender perspective has been omitted as a fundamental element for the public policies of the cities, we will take a brief tour because of the very different way in which men and women live in cities, as well as the large debts required to assume the right to the city.Keywords: Right to the City, Gender Perspective, Empowerment, Women, Security and Mobility.

scholarly journals THE PEOPLE’S BOUROUGH PLAN OF ACTION: A COUNTER-PROJECT OF INSURGENT CITIZENSHIP1

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-277
Author(s):  
Clarice de Oliveira ◽  
Camila Bellaver Alberti ◽  
Laura Boeck Silva ◽  
Gabriela Rosa Nodari
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
City Council ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Differential Spaces ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT Porto Alegre is divided in eight Boroughs of Planning. Each Borough has a representative in the Urban Planning City Council (UPCC). In 2018 social movements organized to conquer this. From this, some of the Boroughs’ councilors felt the need to better inform themselves on the terms and subjects discussed in the UPCC, and to ensure that their local issues would be discussed. For that manner, the People’s Borough Plan of Action (PBPA) project was created by a coalition of social movements, the architect’s association (IAB-RS) and the university to perform counter-hegemonic actions. The project is based on the insurgent planning theory, which understands urban development from the standpoint of the global south as being essentially performed by communities, activists and grassroots strategies. Thus, the project moves across both invited and invented spaces of action in a non-binary relationship, with the aim of providing the grassroots movements of insurgent citizenship with technical assistance to support their claims and desires over the city they live. Regarding the City’s Master Plan revision, the PBAP represents a counter-plan related to the creation of differential spaces. Therefore, they create a moment of realization of the right to the city.

The right to the city during gentrification

2020 ◽  
pp. 166-186
Author(s):  
Klisala Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Music Theater ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Downtown Eastside ◽  
Complete Obliteration ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

As important and sometimes troubling as the previously described music projects can be, they are threatened with complete obliteration during gentrification in such socioeconomically depressed urban neighborhoods as the Downtown Eastside. Gentrification transforms a socioeconomically depressed urban area for middle- and upper-class use. As urban poor are displaced, this threatens their right to the city, which refers to their abilities to exercise the human rights involved in living in their chosen city area. At the same time, funding becomes more available for capability building through the arts and for professional arts. Resultantly, popular music theater has flourished during the gentrification of the Downtown Eastside. What has been the role of urban poor, and particularly participants in jams and music therapy, in the music theater productions? Which human rights regarding the right to the city have those performances supported for urban poor?

A utopia do direito à cidade: Possibilidades de superação da dicotomia favela-bairro no Rio de Janeiro

GEOgraphia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Márcio Piñon de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The Other ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

A utopia do direito à cidade,  no  caso específico do Rio de Janeiro, começa, obrigatoriamente, pela  superação da visão dicotômica favela-cidade. Para isso, é preciso que os moradores da favela possam sentir-se tão cidadãos quanto os que têm moradias fora das favelas. A utopia do direito à cidade tem de levar a favela a própria utopia da cidade. Uma cidade que não se fragmente em oposições asfalto-favela, norte-sul, praia-subúrbio e onde todos tenham direito ao(s) seu(s) centro(s). Oposições que expressam muito mais do que diferenças de  localização e que  se apresentam recheadas de  segregação, estereótipos e  ideologias. Por outro  lado, o direito a cidade, como possibilidade histórica, não pode ser pensado exclusivamente a partir da  favela. Mas as populações  que aí habitam guardam uma contribuição inestimável para  a  construção prática  desse direito. Isso porque,  das  experiências vividas, emergem aprendizados e frutificam esperanças e soluções. Para que a favela seja pólo de um desejo que impulsione a busca do direito a cidade, é necessário que ela  se  pense como  parte da história da própria cidade  e sua transformação  em metrópole.Abstract The right  to the city's  utopy  specifically  in Rio de Janeiro, begins by surpassing  the dichotomy approach between favela and the city. For this purpose, it is necessary, for the favela dwellers, the feeling of citizens as well as those with home outside the favelas. The right to the city's utopy must bring to the favela  the utopy to the city in itself- a non-fragmented city in terms of oppositions like "asphalt"-favela, north-south, beach-suburb and where everybody has right to their center(s). These oppositions express much more the differences of location and present  themselves full of segregation, stereotypes and ideologies. On  the other  hand, the right to  the city, as historical possibility, can not be thought  just from the favela. People that live there have a contribution for a practical construction of this right. 

Water for Life

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeline Baer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
State Capacity ◽  
National Level ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
The Right

Chapter 5 provides a case study of the human rights-based approach to water policy through an analysis of the Bolivian government’s attempts to implement the human right to water and sanitation. It explores these efforts at the local and national level, through changes to investments, institutions, and policies. The analysis reveals that while Bolivia meets the minimum standard for the human right to water and sanitation in some urban areas, access to quality water is low in poor and marginalized communities. While the Bolivian government expresses a strong political will for a human rights approach and is increasing state capacity to fulfill rights, the broader criteria for the right to water and sanitation, including citizen participation and democratic decision-making, remain largely unfulfilled. This case suggests political will and state capacity might be necessary but are not sufficient to fulfill the human right to water and sanitation broadly defined.

Is There a Right to Free Movement across Borders?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Song
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Free Movement ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Right ◽  
Logical Extension

Chapter 6 examines three rights-based arguments for freedom of movement across borders. Three rights-based arguments have been offered in support of freedom of international movement. The first claims that freedom of movement is a fundamental human right in itself. The second adopts a “cantilever” strategy, arguing that freedom of international movement is a logical extension of existing fundamental rights, including the right of domestic free movement and the right to exit one’s country. The third argument is libertarian: international free movement is necessary to respect individual freedom of association and contract. This chapter shows why these arguments fail to justify a general right to free movement across the globe. What is morally required is not a general right of international free movement but an approach that privileges those whose basic human rights are at stake.

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