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Subaltern Governance: Reimagining Citizenship in Urban Spaces<\/strong><\/p>\n Occupied Resistance in the Shadows of Neoliberalism<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Project Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n Since the 1970s, people experiencing or at risk of homeless in the US have increasingly responded to housing insecurity via squatting (Loftus-Farren 2011), occupying abandoned buildings, vacant lots, and other liminal spaces without legal authorization (Prujit 2012). Beyond satisfying material needs, squatting assumes numerous political forms, allowing residents to collectively mobilize against unaffordable housing (Pruijt & Roggeband 2014). These communities thus often function as sites of \u201csubaltern political action\u201d (Vasudevan 2015:339), whereby \u2018occupiers\u2019 collectively claim a \u201cright to the city\u201d (Uitemark et al<\/em>. 2012) and reimagine propertied citizenship (Sparks 2017).<\/p>\n Given this context, this project poses the following questions: (1) how do squatting communities resist (albeit illegally) both the lack of affordable housing and ideals of private property?<\/em>; (2) how might these settlements produce novel notions of citizenship and governmentality?<\/em>; and (3) how do such movements rearticulate the right to urban space?<\/em> Drawing upon scholarly and popular articles, I will briefly explore the history of informal housing in the US, thereafter examining various squatting movements, including homesteading in New York City, \u2018guerrilla\u2019 occupations in Detroit, and west coast \u2018tent cities.\u2019 Lastly, I will assess how the 2011 Occupy movement recently embraced squatting to conceptualize a new post-neoliberal social contract.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Potential References:<\/strong><\/p>\n Bibliography<\/strong><\/p>\n Arnold, Eric K. 2012. \u201cForeclosure Crisis Meets Occupy Effect.\u201d Race, Poverty & the Environment<\/em> 19(1). Retrieved March 1, 2019 (https:\/\/urbanhabitat.org\/files\/19-1.arnold.pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n Durst, Noah J. & Jake Wegmann. 2017. \u201cInformal Housing in the United States.\u201d International Journal of Urban and Regional Research <\/em>41(2):282-97. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1468-2427.12444<\/a>).<\/p>\n Fairbanks, Robert P. 2011 \u201cThe Politics of Urban Informality in Philadelphia\u2019s Recovery House Movement.\u201d Urban Studies<\/em> 48(12):2143-59. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0042098011411943<\/a>).<\/p>\n Herbert, Claire W. 2018. \u201cSquatting for Survival: Precarious Housing in a Declining U.S. City.\u201d Housing Policy Debate <\/em>28(5):1-17. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10511482.2018.1461120<\/a>).<\/p>\n Herring, Chris. 2014. \u201cThe New Logics of Homeless Seclusion: Homeless Encampments in America\u2019s West Coast Cities.\u201d City & Community<\/em> 13(4):285-309. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/cico.12086<\/a>).<\/p>\n Jaleel, Rana. 2013. \u201cA Queer Home in the Midst of a Movement? Occupy Homes, Occupy Homemaking.\u201d In Periscope: Is This What Democracy Looks Like?<\/em>, Eds. Bauer, AJ., Cristina Beltran, Rana Jaleel & Andrew Ross. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7916\/D8FJ2SXZ<\/a>).<\/p>\n Kinder, Kimberly. 2014. \u201cGuerrilla-style Defensive Architecture in Detroit: A Self-provisioned Security Strategy in a Neoliberal Space of Disinvestment.\u201d International Journal of Urban and Regional Research<\/em> 38(5):1767-84. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1468-2427.12158<\/a>).<\/p>\n Loftus-Farren. 2011. \u201cTent Cities: An Interim Solution to Homelessness and Affordable Housing Shortages in the United States.\u201d California Law Review <\/em>99(4):1037-1081. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15779\/Z38HH6C<\/a>).<\/p>\n Prujit, Hans. 2012. \u201cThe Logic of Urban Squatting.\u201d International Journal of Urban and Regional Research<\/em> 37(1):19-45. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1468-2427.2012.01116.x<\/a>).<\/p>\n Prujit, Hans & Conny Roggeband. 2014. \u201cAutonomous and\/or institutionalized social movements? Conceptual clarification and illustrative cases.\u201d International Journal of Comparative Sociology <\/em>55(2):144-65. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0020715214537847<\/a>).<\/p>\n Sparks, Tony. 2017. \u201cCitizens without property: Informality and political agency in a Seattle, Washington homeless encampment.\u201d Environment and Planning A<\/em> 49(1):86-103. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0308518X16665360<\/a>).<\/p>\n Starecheski, Amy. 2014. \u201cSquatting History: The Power of Oral History as a History-Making Practice.\u201d Oral History Review<\/em> 41(2):187-216. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ohr\/ohu030<\/a>).<\/p>\n Vasudevan, Alexander. 2015. \u201cThe makeshift city: Towards a global geography of squatting.\u201d Progress in Human Geography<\/em> 39(3):338-59. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0309132514531471<\/a>).<\/p>\n Wegmann, Jake. 2015. \u201cResearch Notes: The Hidden Cityscapes of Informal Housing in Suburban Los Angeles and the Paradox of Horizontal Density.\u201d Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum <\/em>22(2):89-110. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.5749\/buildland.22.2.0089<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Other Sources of Information<\/strong><\/p>\n Burns, Rebecca. 2012. \u201cNo Vacancies: Squatters Move In.\u201d In These Times<\/em>, April 19. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/13037\/no_vacancies_squatters_move_in<\/a>).<\/p>\n Gabbet, Adam & Ryan Devereux. 2011. \u201cWall Street protestors to occupy foreclosed homes.\u201d The Guardian<\/em>, December 6. Retrieved March 1, 2019. (https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/dec\/06\/occupy-wall-street-occupy-foreclosed-homes<\/a>).<\/p>\n Pratt Center & CHHAYA CDC. 2008. New York\u2019s Housing Underground: A Refuge and Resource<\/em>. New York: Pratt Center for Community Development. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (https:\/\/prattcenter.net\/sites\/default\/files\/housing_underground_0.pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n Lopez’s comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n Brandon, I’m really excited about the project you propose. I think a way to potentially frame the subaltern politics associated with squatting is through use of James C. Scott’s theory of infra-politics. According to Scott, infrapolitics are the subaltern forms of resistance taken by subordinate subjects that are largely invisible to those who dominate them. While, for instance, state officials may know that squatters exist and where they live, it may be that they do not forcibly remove them because the state would then have to offer them housing. Also, Scott believes that squatting gives homeless people some type of freedom because it gives them housing, however, when normal requests are made to legalize their status the state then turns to criminalize squatters. This is a romantic view by Scott squatting, but it may give you something to think through as you start this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Subaltern Governance: Reimagining Citizenship in Urban Spaces Occupied Resistance in the Shadows of Neoliberalism Project Summary: Since the 1970s, people experiencing or at risk of homeless in the US have increasingly responded to housing insecurity via squatting (Loftus-Farren 2011), occupying abandoned buildings, vacant lots, and other liminal spaces without legal authorization (Prujit 2012). 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