The Right to the City: The Land and Housing Movements

Balihar Sanghera () and Elmira Satybaldieva ()
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Balihar Sanghera: University of Kent
Elmira Satybaldieva: University of Kent

Chapter Chapter 7 in Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents, 2021, pp 149-183 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines how rural migrants and propertyless groups mobilised their right to the city through informal settlements in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Residents of informal settlements formed grassroots movements to protect their homes, politicise housing shortage, lobby for land for housing, and demand legalisation and improvements to informal settlements. They tried to resist the neoliberal commodification of land and real estate and its negative effects on their lives. They struggled against state and business elites, who viewed informal settlements as chaotic and uncivilised. The demolition and construction of informal settlements offered an opportunity for the rich and powerful to modernise the city and extract rent. The chapter discusses how housing and land struggles unfolded in each country, and how country-specific political structures were important for the social movements’ trajectories and achievements.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76303-9_7

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