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- Title
Reconfiguring Manila: Displacement, Resettlement, and the Productivity of Urban Divides.
- Authors
Jensen, Steffen; Hapal, Karl; Quijano, Salome
- Abstract
As one of the densest cities in the world, Manila suffers from constant population overflow. Hardly any spot in the urban landscape is unpopulated. Successive governments argue that the population overflow has crippled or arrested the potential of Metro Manila. In response, governments have resorted to resettlement, displacing urban poor populations and emplacing them often in far-flung and desolate sites. While the justifications for resettlement projects have gradually changed in the past half-century, we argue that its practice constitutes certain continuities—the conscious and constant attempt to establish and maintain urban divides around binary notions of order/disorder, purity/danger, and wealth/poverty. While resettlement projects often fail to produce the desired outcomes, they still have effects. In the paper, we hone in on different scales of effects, namely the transformation of progressive politics; reconfigured class relations in Manila as well as in the resettlement sites; and the transformation of spatial-temporal configurations and modes of belonging.
- Subjects
MANILA (Philippines); LAND settlement; CITY dwellers; INVOLUNTARY relocation; URBAN poor; CITIES &; towns in art; GLOBALIZATION
- Publication
Urban Forum, 2020, Vol 31, Issue 3, p389
- ISSN
1015-3802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12132-020-09399-0