Everyday urbanism and the everyday state: Negotiating habitat in allotment gardens in Berlin

Hanna Hilbrandt

Urban Studies, 2019, vol. 56, issue 2, 352-367

Abstract: This paper is an inquiry into the powers at play in the everyday practices of making the city, and the social and spatial relations through which those who inhabit its margins put these powers to work. This exploration is based on a case study that considers informal housing practices and their regulation in allotment gardens in Berlin. To trace the mechanisms through which residents work to stay put in these sites, despite regulations prohibiting residency therein, the paper relates a debate on the transformative potential of the everyday to anthropological literature on the workings of the state, embedding this discussion in relational approaches to power and place. Joining these perspectives, I argue that the gardeners’ possibilities to stay put depend on the ways in which they meditate the presence of regulatory practices through their relations to state actors or institutional frames. These mediations not only highlight that people co-construct the order that takes shape, but also point to the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion built up along the way.

Keywords: agglomeration/urbanisation; displacement/gentrification; governance; informality; power; state; theory; é›†è š/城市化; æµ ç¦»å¤±æ‰€/绅士化; æ²»ç †; é žæ­£è§„æ€§; æ ƒåŠ›; 国家; ç †è®º (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098017740304

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