The Patchwork City

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The Patchwork City

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ISBN: 9780226643144
écrit par: Marco Z. Garrido
édition: The University of Chicago Press
date de publication: 2019 -8
reliure: Paperback
prix: $30.00
nombre de pages: 288

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Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila

Marco Z. Garrido   

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In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitical pattern of Marco Z. Garrido’s “patchwork city.” Garrido documents the fragmentation of Manila into a mélange of spaces defined by class, particularly slums and upper- and middle-class enclaves. He then looks beyond urban fragmentation to delineate its effects on class relations and politics, arguing that the proliferation of these slums and enclaves and their subsequent proximity have intensified class relations. For enclave residents, the proximity of slums is a source of insecurity, compelling them to impose spatial boundaries on slum residents. For slum residents, the regular imposition of these boundaries creates a pervasive sense of discrimination. Class boundaries then sharpen along the housing divide, and the urban poor and middle class emerge not as labor and capital but as squatters and “villagers,” Manila’s name for subdivision residents. Garrido further examines the politicization of this divide with the case of the populist president Joseph Estrada, finding the two sides drawn into contention over not just the right to the city, but the nature of democracy itself.
The Patchwork City illuminates how segregation, class relations, and democracy are all intensely connected. It makes clear, ultimately, that class as a social structure is as indispensable to the study of Manila—and of many other cities of the Global South—as race is to the study of American cities.

contents

Acknowledgments
Glossary
Introduction
1 The Stakes and Approach
2 The Argument
Part One. From Urban Fragmentation to Class Division
3 Interspersion
4 Imposing Boundaries: Villagers
5 Boundary Imposition: Squatters
Part Two. From Class Division to Political Dissensus
Introduction to Part Two
6 The Politics of Electoral Siege
7 The Politics of Recognition
8 Dissensus
Conclusion
Appendix: Selecting Cases and Getting Access
References
Index

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