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Transgressive City-Making and Governance
Housing Struggles, Occupations and Evictions in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 316/33
- New Scholarship in Political Economy, Volume: 316/33
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Transgressive City-Making and Governance delves into the pressing global issue of housing exclusion and forced evictions, using Lisbon as a case study. This book, based on a 15-month engaged ethnography, critically examines council housing occupations and evictions, revealing how these practices challenge neoliberal urban governance and put forward alternative forms of urban citizenship. Exploring gendered, classed, and racialised dynamics, it sheds light on the transformative potential of housing occupations and the role of social movements in contesting systemic exclusion. It is essential reading for those interested in housing rights, social justice, and urban governance.
Saila-Maria Saaristo, Ph.D. (2022), is an urban anthropologist based at ISCTE's DINÃMIA'CET. A researcher and a practitioner, she is working on the intersection of housing precarity, gender, and migration, with recent articles in Housing Studies and Radical Housing Journal.
Chapter IV
âA.âThe significance of the Arab presence in the Mediterranean from the perspective of the emergence of portolan charts
âB.âThe surviving Arabic portolan charts
âC.âPortolan charts and mathematical geography
âD.âThe foundations of coordinate grids on European world maps
Chapter V
âA.âArab nautical science in the Indian Ocean as evidence of a highly developed mathematical geography and cartography
âB.âArab-Islamic astronomical navigation among the Portuguese
Chapter VI
âA.âArabic cartography of the Indian Ocean according to non-Arab sources
âB.âArabic cartography of the Indian Ocean among the Portuguese
âC.âSummary
Bibliography
I: Index of proper names
II: Index of book titles
III: Tables of geographical coordinates
IV: Index of maps
V: Index of place names and terms
âA.âThe significance of the Arab presence in the Mediterranean from the perspective of the emergence of portolan charts
âB.âThe surviving Arabic portolan charts
âC.âPortolan charts and mathematical geography
âD.âThe foundations of coordinate grids on European world maps
Chapter V
âA.âArab nautical science in the Indian Ocean as evidence of a highly developed mathematical geography and cartography
âB.âArab-Islamic astronomical navigation among the Portuguese
Chapter VI
âA.âArabic cartography of the Indian Ocean according to non-Arab sources
âB.âArabic cartography of the Indian Ocean among the Portuguese
âC.âSummary
Bibliography
I: Index of proper names
II: Index of book titles
III: Tables of geographical coordinates
IV: Index of maps
V: Index of place names and terms
This book is targeted towards researchers, teachers and students in urban studies, anthropology, sociology, human geography and political science, as well as practitioners in housing policy and housing and social rights advocacy.