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THE RIGHT TO THE CITY OR THE SOCIALISATION OF THE COMMONS?

International Journal of Management and Social Sciences

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Title THE RIGHT TO THE CITY OR THE SOCIALISATION OF THE COMMONS?
 
Creator Kuriakose, Mathew; PhD Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai, India.
 
Subject Social Science
Right to the city, Socialisation, Commons, Urban citizenship, Resource shifts, Liberal paradigm.
Literature, English Writing
 
Description The right to the city is perhaps the only strand of social science thought that goes uncontested. It is universally acclaimed by both its theorists (in the metropolises) and practitioners (in the third world slums). It has been presented as a new grounded way of reclaiming citizenship for the disenfranchised masses in the urban fringes. The approach is at once presented as a critique of an existing state of affairs and an alternative that promises a new inclusive urban future. The paper argues that the right to the city approach is not that radical as it made out to be. The concerns raised by the approach are certainly valid. However, an attempt to contain those concerns in a framework of rights is problematic. It is more productive to think of a new approach based on a call to socialising the commons.
 
Publisher SPEAK Foundation
 
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Date 2014-07-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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As a theoretical work, the paper draws from normative concerns on reclaiming space.
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.foundationspeak.com/index.php/ijmss/article/view/174
 
Source INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (IJMSS); Vol 4, No 1 (2014): IJMSS - July 4(1) 2014; 47-56
2349-9761
2249-0191
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.foundationspeak.com/index.php/ijmss/article/view/174/126
 
Coverage Worldwide
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The paper is discursive and explores the weaknesses of the discourse on the right to the city approach.
 
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