Teddy Cruz and his Tijuana shanty paradigm get the full Ouroussoff exposa in the Sunday Times as shanty has a nice ring of irony for a new archetype for american suburbian. NYT
that's a sweet article. the border, not just as suture, but as medicine with reach far and beyond. the shanty de-stigmatized, the latinization of the U.S. as emergent cultural antibodies, not just a viral burden of immigration or rampant economic desease.
when the solutions to particular crisis can be seen as more than just micro and targetted healers, but having a more broad effect on the suture of the body as a whole. border shanties as future appeal of affordable housing, urban supportive housing as evolutionary living models for more than just the chronically homeless.
niche responses as unintended actuators of larger infrastructural doctoring.
just a random from my files.
(PDF) gecekondu paper.
Summary. This article aims to develop a critical approach to squatter (gecekondu) studies in
Turkey and investigates the various representations of the gecekondu people in these studies in different periods by placing them in their social, political and economic contexts. It details changes in the representation of the gecekondu population from the ‘rural Other’ in the 1950s and 1960s, to the ‘disadvantaged Other’ in the 1970s and early 1980s, to the ‘urban poor Other(s)’, the ‘undeserving rich Other(s)’ and the ‘culturally inferior Other(s) as Sub-culture’ between the mid 1980s and mid 1990s, and finally to the ‘threatening/varoslu Other’ in the late 1990s. It asserts that, while the approach to the gecekondu people varies from an elitist one, to one which is sympathetic to the gecekondu people, this group, nevertheless, has been consistently the ‘inferior Other’ for Turkish gecekondu researchers.
wow, i will have to check that out. helluva summary though, man.
i understand, gecekondu in Turkish means "it happened at night,", squatters taking advantage of an old law which said as long as construction took place at night before sunrise and the builders couldn't be seen building during the day, then they were safe. the land was theirs. and massive squatter cities outside Istanbul secured their own municipalities this way.
kinda blows me away.
millions of migrating phantom builders erecting corrugated cities over night. that's incredible. epic, actually. like survival on a nature show about nocternal squatters and stealth settlements.
its a well written paper bryan. i wish i could summerize like that.very fascinating. turkish gecekondus are some times grow up to 7 stories with elevators and all..
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that's a sweet article. the border, not just as suture, but as medicine with reach far and beyond. the shanty de-stigmatized, the latinization of the U.S. as emergent cultural antibodies, not just a viral burden of immigration or rampant economic desease.
when the solutions to particular crisis can be seen as more than just micro and targetted healers, but having a more broad effect on the suture of the body as a whole. border shanties as future appeal of affordable housing, urban supportive housing as evolutionary living models for more than just the chronically homeless.
niche responses as unintended actuators of larger infrastructural doctoring.
just a random from my files.
(PDF)
gecekondu paper.
Summary. This article aims to develop a critical approach to squatter (gecekondu) studies in
Turkey and investigates the various representations of the gecekondu people in these studies in different periods by placing them in their social, political and economic contexts. It details changes in the representation of the gecekondu population from the ‘rural Other’ in the 1950s and 1960s, to the ‘disadvantaged Other’ in the 1970s and early 1980s, to the ‘urban poor Other(s)’, the ‘undeserving rich Other(s)’ and the ‘culturally inferior Other(s) as Sub-culture’ between the mid 1980s and mid 1990s, and finally to the ‘threatening/varoslu Other’ in the late 1990s. It asserts that, while the approach to the gecekondu people varies from an elitist one, to one which is sympathetic to the gecekondu people, this group, nevertheless, has been consistently the ‘inferior Other’ for Turkish gecekondu researchers.
wow, i will have to check that out. helluva summary though, man.
i understand, gecekondu in Turkish means "it happened at night,", squatters taking advantage of an old law which said as long as construction took place at night before sunrise and the builders couldn't be seen building during the day, then they were safe. the land was theirs. and massive squatter cities outside Istanbul secured their own municipalities this way.
kinda blows me away.
millions of migrating phantom builders erecting corrugated cities over night. that's incredible. epic, actually. like survival on a nature show about nocternal squatters and stealth settlements.
its a well written paper bryan. i wish i could summerize like that.very fascinating. turkish gecekondus are some times grow up to 7 stories with elevators and all..
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