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Squatters and the Politics of Marginality in Uruguay / by María José Álvarez-Rivadulla.

9783319545349
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9783319545332

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

English

1 online resource (XV, 224 pages 28 illustrations, 16 illustrations in color.) : online resource

10.1007/978-3-319-54534-9 doi

JL950-969

320.4

This book unveils the political economy of land squatting in a third world city, Montevideo, in Uruguay. It focuses on the effects of democratization on the mobilization of the poorest as well as on the role played by different types of brokers, from radical Catholic priests to local leaders embedded in political networks. Through a multi-method endeavour that combines ethnography, historical sources, and quantitative time series, the author reconstructs the history of the informal city since the late 1940s to the present. From a social movements/contentious politics perspective, the book challenges the assumption that socioeconomic factors such as poverty were the only causes triggering land squatting.

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ReferencesChapter 3 The Cycle of Land Invasions; Snapshot 1: A Story of an Accretion Invasion (1950s) ; Snapshot 2: A Story of a Planned Invasion (1990s) ; Snapshot 3: A Story of a Land Invasion by Subdivision and Sale (Early 2000s) ; Snapshot 4: Eviction (from 2004 Onwards) ; Making Sense of the Snapshots; When, How, and Where?; Accretion Invasions; Planned Invasions; Subdivision and Sale; Prevalence, Timing, Land Ownership, and Geography: A Panorama of Land Squatting in Montevideo; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4 Accretion Invasions. A Story of an Unlikely Contention (1979-1990).

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Latin American political economy.

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