Elizabeth Andrade Huaringa, Camila Cociña, Ana Sugranyes
{"title":"Ejerciendo derechos desde abajo: Vivienda, género, migración y derecho a la ciudad desde Antofagasta, Chile","authors":"Elizabeth Andrade Huaringa, Camila Cociña, Ana Sugranyes","doi":"10.54825/ghbc9957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/ghbc9957","url":null,"abstract":"Elizabeth Andrade Huaringa es una mujer, migrante, activista y líder social del asentamiento informal de Los Arenales en Antofagasta, en el borde costero del Desierto de Atacama, Chile. En 2022 fue galardonada con el Premio Nacional de Derechos Humanos precisamente por su trabajo en derechos sociales, derechos de las mujeres, derechos de los migrantes y, sobre todo, su trabajo en el derecho a la vivienda y a la ciudad. En esta Conversación con Camila y Ana, Eli reflexiona sobre su historia personal y colectiva, sobre la construcción del derecho a la vivienda y a la ciudad desde los asentamientos precarios, populares o informales, sobre la organización de las mujeres en contextos de crisis y violencia, y sobre el progreso y ampliación de los derechos humanos a partir de su ejercicio cotidiano.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124625512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Here to Stay: Building a Tenant Association Against Displacement","authors":"Ana Vilenica, Katrina M. Albright","doi":"10.54825/oclf5321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/oclf5321","url":null,"abstract":"The Flower Drive Tenants Association (La Asociación de inquilinos de Flower Drive) is an entire block of tenants organising against displacement in South Central Los Angeles. Members of the Los Angeles Tenants Union since March 2021, Flower Drive tenants have fought to stay put in the face of a multi-billion dollar development plan to replace hundreds of rent controlled apartments with luxury housing. In the process they have transformed their block of working class Black and Latino tenants into what one comrade described as a “semillero” – a seedbed of tenant organising across South Central Los Angeles. The señoras who lead the Flower Drive TA have also turned their weekly meeting into a co-learning space for the wider community. As many as 60 tenants from across South Central LA gather each week in a parking lot behind the Flower Drive buildings to discuss their rights, share their experiences, and plan direct actions. Tenants support each other through protesting landlords, reversing lockouts, and even confronting domestic abusers. Tenants have also begun to discuss their deeper political conditions, drawing connections to popular land struggles across the world.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132526136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review - Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers' Fight for Municipal Socialism by Shelton Stromquist. 2023","authors":"Hannes Rolf","doi":"10.54825/uteo9421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/uteo9421","url":null,"abstract":"Shelton Stromquist has written a long and very rich account of the international history of local socialist activism, often called municipal socialism. Drawing on various examples, Stromquist wants to shift the focus from national parliamentary politics and centrist narratives to the local level, where the labour movement was built. At a time when local struggles such as affordable housing are once again on the agenda of progressive activists, this book offers important insights into the early local history of labour politics and inspiration for contemporary activists and municipal socialists.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122914668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth Andrade Huaringa, C. Cociña, Ana Sugranyes
{"title":"Exercising rights from below: Housing, gender, migration and the right to the city from Antofagasta, Chile","authors":"Elizabeth Andrade Huaringa, C. Cociña, Ana Sugranyes","doi":"10.54825/rqjh3553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/rqjh3553","url":null,"abstract":"Elizabeth Andrade Huaringa is a woman, migrant, activist, and housing leader of the informal settlement of Los Arenales in Antofagasta, on the coastal edge of the Atacama Desert, Chile. In 2022, she was awarded the National Human Rights Award precisely because of her work on social rights, women’s rights, migrants’ rights, and above all, her work on the right to housing and to the city. In this Conversation with Camila and Ana, Eli reflects on her personal and collective history, on the construction of the right to housing and the city from precarious, popular or informal settlements, on the organisation of women in the context of crisis and violence, and on the progress and expansion of human rights from their everyday exercise.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129158036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous organizing for housing justice: Lessons and challenges","authors":"Bianet Castellanos","doi":"10.54825/kxju5752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/kxju5752","url":null,"abstract":"What are the particular challenges to organizing for housing justice in Cancún, Mexico? How has the pandemic altered strategies? In January 2023, anthropologist M. Bianet Castellanos met with Magda (a pseudonym), a Maya activist who was one of the leaders of the quest for housing justice in the Colonia Mario Villanueva in Cancún. Castellanos documented this struggle in her book Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico (Stanford University Press 2021). This conversation was an opportunity for Magda to provide an update on the status of the informal settlement’s longstanding battle to procure formal land titles to their plots. They discuss the lessons learned from this decade-long struggle in the hope that this case will resonate and inform housing struggles in other parts of the world.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"14 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116431009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Food distribution as solidarity and as a tool for building tenant power in Los Angeles","authors":"T. Román, Bryan Quintanilla, Ana Vilenica","doi":"10.54825/tjpl9321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/tjpl9321","url":null,"abstract":"In this conversation, Teresa Roman, Latina organizer and member of Accion Comunitaria and Los Angeles Tenant Union, shares her observations and analysis about the ongoing struggles in communities of Los Angeles. She discusses the use of food distribution as a means of building solidarity and tenant power, organizing against police harassment in migrant communities, and the role of women in tenant struggles.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115329666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review - From Shelters To Dwelling: The Zaatari Refugee Camp by Ayham Dalal, 2022","authors":"L. Zibar","doi":"10.54825/mees6156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/mees6156","url":null,"abstract":"Ayham Dalal offers us a spatial repertoire on the radicality of the ‘housing’ question regarding refugees and their built environments. By focusing on the ‘tension between the shelter and the dwelling’, this book offers an exceptional reading of the imposed temporary materiality of the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Dalal introduces ‘dwelling’ as a spatial practice, highlighting refugees' spatial agency in resisting and subverting the idea of liminality and, as Malaki (1992) proposes, falling outside the ‘natural order of things’. Through detailed case studies and visual representation, this book brings to the fore the dismantling and reassembling of given temporary structures to describe Syrian refugees' spatial agency in transforming the tent-furnished desert into ‘the third largest city in Jordan’.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121071870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of black women in urban housing struggles in Brazil: From land occupations to the institutional policy","authors":"Thalles Vichiato Breda","doi":"10.54825/majr9896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/majr9896","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, housing movements and their activists have gained more prominence as housing has become increasingly unaffordable. In Brazil, land occupations, a tool for housing access, are mainly composed of Black women—the most vulnerable societal group. Black women have developed a vital role in the housing struggle, being responsible for the occupations’ management and their victories. Still, they are invisible to part of society and to some scholars. This article analyzes the role of Black women in land occupations organized by the MTST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto—Homeless Workers Movement). It discusses how they became activists, accessed leadership positions, and more recently, how they push to access positions in institutional and party politics. The research is based on ethnographic field work in an MTST occupation in São Carlos during 2018 and 2021 and analyses of the movement and its leaders’ social media profiles.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"70 19","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113992585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weaving a Queer Space of Refuge, Resistance and Autonomy in Mexico City","authors":"Miranda Amatista, Ana Vilenica","doi":"10.54825/qhiv4972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/qhiv4972","url":null,"abstract":"La Comune Lencha-Trans is a unique women-only space that combines the functions of a home, a shelter, and a cultural center. It was established in January 2020 with the intention of hosting poetry events and serving as a public kitchen. In this conversation Miranda Amatista shares the history of the space, which is organized and led by a group of lesbian, trans, and queer women, deeply connected to other feminist, trans, prisoner-rights, women vendors, and anti-capitalist political and social movements.Miranda emphasized their belief in the power of creating alternative spaces and ways of life as a form of resistance against the system. The commune is one such alternative, where they strive to foster a sense of community, empowerment, and solidarity.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"89 3‐4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120854673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rufina Galindo, Ana Vilenica, Pedro Montes de Oca Quiroz
{"title":"From Quiet Life to Political Activism: Memories of tenants rebellions in Mexico","authors":"Rufina Galindo, Ana Vilenica, Pedro Montes de Oca Quiroz","doi":"10.54825/parz4621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54825/parz4621","url":null,"abstract":"The Red de Desalojados de la Ciudad de México is a group led by people affected by forced evictions, that has been resisting evictions and revealing ways in which different real estate groups, in collaboration with the authorities, prioritize economic interests over the rights of the inhabitants. In conversation with Rufina Galindo a member of the Network of Evicted in Mexico City, we talked about the effects of the earthquake on the living conditions of people, frauds and corruption that make the complex struggles of people for life and home even herder, organizing against eviction violence, including networking and coalition building.","PeriodicalId":321208,"journal":{"name":"Radical Housing Journal","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131781589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}