... Bhagidari and Prahalad C K resettlement displacement commodity fetishism speculation marginality informal sector squatters property rights tenure security land titling In the previous chapter, I described how government-issued resettlement plots became the primary medium through which residents...

... A Speke John Hanning squatters Stanley Henry Curr Edward Hobart Tasmania Van Diemen’s Land Victoria Australia Benyeo Dante Female Middle Class Emigration Society Georghesan Louisa Governesses Oliver M A Bank of Australia Canberra doctors Eden New South Wales happiness Mowle Mary...

..., and the establishment the People’s Republic in 1949, Hong Kong saw its population explode, with many people living in ramshackle squatters’ huts. Throughout the post-war period, Hong Kong’s relationship with China was its most important one, and the Colony’s economic miracle developed against the backdrop...

... construction squatters laborers migration citizenship dwelling building urban landscape neoliberalism “I want to take you to see the house I was born in.” It was this seemingly straightforward invitation that had brought me to Dakar’s SICAP Liberté III neighborhood one afternoon in June 2007. My kind...

.... It concentrates on the experience of the Bengali Housing Action Group, a squatters’ organisation coordinated by black radical activists from Race Today, and on anti-racist resistance spearheaded by second generation Asian Youth Movements. These campaigns succeeded in securing homes for many families...

...Farmerfield’s apartheid designation as a “black spot” in a white area transformed its residents into “squatters” who were among the millions forcibly removed and resettled in South Africa’s bantustans. Oral histories capture the poignant and painful stories of migration and dispossession...

...Land Law. Third Edition, Elizabeth Cooke, Oxford University Press (2020). © Elizabeth Cooke. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198854067.001.0001. This chapter is about relativity of title and the law relating to adverse possession (also known as squatters’ rights), which used to be fundamental to land law...

...The British governed Zanzibar through the Arab sultans. They left, rather abruptly, in December 1963. Africans had been largely excluded from political and economic power. They were divided between the hadimu or indigenous population, squatters most of whom were freed slaves...

...In a series of treaties between the late 1820s and the late 1830s, the United States asserted legal ownership of the entire Ho-Chunk homeland defined in the 1825 Treaty of Prairie du Chien. American squatters first took possession of valuable lead diggings, and when conflicts with Ho-Chunk...

...Few fires in slums and squatter areas have been studied. One documented case on the crucial relationship between urban fires and housing is the 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire in the city-state of Singapore. The inferno was historic in precipitating an expansive public housing program and forging...

... to its lands. The chapter then lists the six core elements of a traditional account of the Battle of Mussel Slough. The legal origins of the dispute, the movement of hundreds of squatters into land owned by the Southern Pacific, and the efforts of the Southern Pacific to reach a compromise...

...This chapter investigates the four narratives of place which exemplify the complex and ambiguous environmental, racial, social and ethnic semiotics that inflected the pastoral cartographies created by Scots and Irish squatters in Victoria and New South Wales. Charles Fetherstonhaugh, James Hamilton...

... born and bred Lower East Siders and immigrants from all over the world, a poet and a priest, activists and artists, former drug addicts and future rock stars, squatters and allies, those who have never before spoken publicly about their experiences and those who have been longtime spokespeople...

...One might believe that the authorities in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, which left some 70,000 rotting and abandoned buildings, would make a concerted effort to help the thousands of squatters who are now living in these buildings. However, help for the displaced comes down to two men...

.... A dizzying panorama of the Crescent City: for a moment it felt as if they were about to soar over all that lay beyond and around the skyscrapers, the 70,000 secret nooks where squatters dwell. The WWOZ radio station provided theme jazz music for this twelve-hour day and night. It was America with the lid...

... into a decades-old battle for land between planters and independent peasants and squatters. In this sense, Castro found a movement more than he founded one. The rural insurrection was complemented by an equally important urban uprising that helped destabilize and delegitimize a dictatorship beginning to crumble...

... of their social experiment than were our Russian subjects. ‘It was an exciting time you know … ’, Wolmar recalls, ‘there was a ferment of ideas and discussion but, as I say, within a slightly idealistic context that never, never quite worked itself out’. ⁶⁷ The squatter experiment of the 1970s would...

... in the 1960s, these endeavours are initiated not by the government, but from nationally organized groups of small squatters communities which is furthered by one of the most prominent grassroots organizations in the country — the Rural Landless Workers' Movement (MST). MST has already been able to establish...

...v For Mom, Dad, and my love Marika vi The term squatter is very ambiguous. D ictionary of Americanisms, 1848 Squatter Sovereignty. What do those terms mean? A braham Lincoln, 1858 1 Introduction A Tale of Two Squatters John H. Stringfellow arrived in Kansas soon after Congress opened...

...The previous chapter focused on enclave residents imposing boundaries; this one features slum residents’ (or “squatters’”) experience of boundary imposition. Boundary imposition takes different forms. Slum residents may be excluded outright, their presence within enclaves may be circumscribed...