غیررسمی‌های شهری: تأملاتی بر رسمی و غیررسمی

Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, this book addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and informal urbanism. This collection critically interrogates both the ways in which 'informal' and 'formal' are put to work in the governing and politicisation of cities, and their conceptual strengths and weaknesses. It does so by focusing on a wide variety of topics, from specific forms of housing and labour often traditionally linked to the formal/informal divide, to urban political negotiations, cultural practices, and ways of being in the city. The book takes stock of and reflects on how contemporary urban informality/formality relations are being produced and are/might be understood, and puts forward an enlarged and comprehensive understanding of urban informality. La quatrième de couverture indique : "Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, this book addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and informal urbanism. This collection critically interrogates both the ways in which 'informal' and 'formal' are put to work in the governing and politicisation of cities, and their conceptual strenghts and weaknesses. It does so by focusing on a wide variety of topics, from specific forms of housing and labour often traditionally linked to the formal/informal divide, to urban political negotiations, cultural practices, and ways of being in the city. The book takes stock of and reflects on how contemporary urban informality/formality relations are being produced and are/might be understood, and puts forward an enlarged and comprehensive understanding of urban informality." Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 List of Contributors 10 Acknowledgements 14 Introduction: The Informal-formal Divide in Context 16 1 Juggling with Formality and Informality in Housing: Some Lessons from the New South Africa 28 2 Urban Informality Reconsidered in a Neoliberal Context 44 3 ‘Informal Moral Economies’ and Urban Governance in India 66 4 Bajji on the Beach: Middle-Class Food Practices in Chennai’s New Beach 82 5 Informality as a Strategy: Street Traders in Hanoi Facing Constant Insecurity 104 6 Informality as Borrowed Security: Contested Food Markets in Dhaka, Bangladesh 126 7 Hip-hop and Sociality in a Brazilian Favela 144 8 The Mode of Informal Urbanisation 164 9 Conceptualising Informality 186 Index 210 Reflections on the Formal and Informal