City & SocietyPub Date : 2021-04-19DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12389
Georgia Hartman
{"title":"“Homes with Value”: Mortgage Finance and the Reconfiguration of Home Value in Urban Mexico","authors":"Georgia Hartman","doi":"10.1111/ciso.12389","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.12389","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mexico is in the midst of a major urban transformation. State-subsidized mortgage credit has facilitated the emergence of an affordable housing market and transformed the urban periphery into vast tracts of tiny concrete “social interest” housing developments. Easily available credit has allowed millions of Mexican workers to pursue the cultural and moral imperative to possess “patrimonio” by becoming homeowners. Patrimonio can be understood as a kind of inalienable possession tied to gendered notions of the family, inheritance, and economic security. Yet ballooning mortgage debts associated with these homes inverts the promise of patrimonio, turning the home into a source of economic instability and insecurity. I argue that this paradoxical situation derives from the convergence of different logics for understanding a home’s value—as patrimonio, as social good, and as financialized commodity. The mortgage contract reconfigures the patrimonial desires of homeowners into a vehicle for marco-economic growth and a source of private profits. Drawing on twenty-two months of ethnographic field research in Mexico City and Cancún, I highlight frictions in the meanings of home as a cultural imperative, social good, and financial commodity that arise in the context of its mobilization as marketized commodity in contemporary urban Mexico.</p>","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"17-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ciso.12389","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85634281","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}
City & SocietyPub Date : 2021-04-17DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12394
Claudia Zamorano
{"title":"Appropriating the Concept of the Right to the City: Politics, Politicians, and Collective Actors in Mexico City☆","authors":"Claudia Zamorano","doi":"10.1111/ciso.12394","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.12394","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article takes into consideration the importance of the concept of right to the city in Mexico City politics and raises three main questions: How have center-left governments adapted the concept according to their own interests, in a neoliberalizing context marked by mandatory repositioning of planning and capital? How has the right to the city been taken up and modified by diverse social organizations aimed at influencing the production of urban space? To what extent has the concept, despite manipulations and misunderstandings, proved to be politically useful in bridging differences between government agencies and social movements? I focus on the social life of the concept. I suggest that its widespread dissemination has not meant its trivialization. On the contrary, the concept has taken on greater sociological complexity. It was not turned into a fixed concept, rather it became both a field of contention and a tool enabling political encounters.</p>","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"71-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ciso.12394","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75757825","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}
City & SocietyPub Date : 2021-04-09DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12386
Camille Frazier
{"title":"Positionality and the Transformative Potential of Discomfort","authors":"Camille Frazier","doi":"10.1111/ciso.12386","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.12386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ciso.12386","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84433040","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}
City & SocietyPub Date : 2021-04-05DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12378
Derek Pardue
{"title":"Introduction to City & Society Forum: Best Paper of 2019 Award Winner, Camille Frazier's “Urban Heat: Rising Temperatures as Critique in India's Air-Conditioned Cityˮ","authors":"Derek Pardue","doi":"10.1111/ciso.12378","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.12378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ciso.12378","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76704964","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}
City & SocietyPub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12381
Hemangini Gupta,
{"title":"What do we talk about when we talk about heat?","authors":"Hemangini Gupta,","doi":"10.1111/ciso.12381","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.12381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ciso.12381","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74120310","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}
City & SocietyPub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12388
Rebecca Louise Carter
{"title":"Acknowledging the 2020 Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology","authors":"Rebecca Louise Carter","doi":"10.1111/ciso.12388","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.12388","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"12-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ciso.12388","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91057169","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}
City & SocietyPub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12391
Siri Schwabe
{"title":"Order and Atmospheric Memory: Cleaning Up the Past, Designing the Future","authors":"Siri Schwabe","doi":"10.1111/ciso.12391","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.12391","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article is concerned with the relationship between atmosphere and memory in the context of rapid urban development. I explore this relationship by looking to the northeastern fringes of central Stockholm, where a new neighborhood is being constructed in extension of industrial and residential areas long established as integral albeit peripheral parts of the city. Known by its official English-language moniker as Stockholm Royal Seaport, this neighborhood-in-the-works occupies a unique location within the growing city. Meanwhile, the local environment is currently undergoing a process of cleaning up that allows for a multisensorial and imaginative engagement with both past and future. In interrogating this case, I argue that designing for the future has come to entail a curation of the past that obfuscates difference and creates order through <i>atmospheric memory</i>: memory that shapes and is shaped by atmospheres.</p>","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"40-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ciso.12391","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80180278","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}
City & SocietyPub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12385
Amy Zhang,
{"title":"Environmental quality and an urban politics of exclusion","authors":"Amy Zhang,","doi":"10.1111/ciso.12385","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.12385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ciso.12385","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74621091","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}
City & SocietyPub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12380
K. Sivaramakrishnan,
{"title":"The City in the Village: Notes on Urban Orientation from the Indian Himalaya1","authors":"K. Sivaramakrishnan,","doi":"10.1111/ciso.12380","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ciso.12380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46417,"journal":{"name":"City & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ciso.12380","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85901954","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}