To the dispossessed men, women, and children across the urban world, who— lose land and independent livelihoods, experience violence and forced eviction, lack social, political, and cultural capital, concentrate on precarious/abusive work, face hunger, malnutrition, and short life, suffer a collective trauma of pauperism, reinforce formal and informal capitalism, lack trust, hope, a future, and dignity, find as “urban waste” or “urban nomads,” experience “social death” or “civic death,” and organize resistance against dispossession, create obstacles to capital accumulation, succeed in movements against dispossession, break the vicious cycle of dispossession, restore the dignity of human potential
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