Urban Regimes of Dispossession in the Global South

Lipon Mondal is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Dhaka. He has published nearly a dozen articles in top-notch journals, including Urban Studies, the Journal of World-Systems Research, and the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. His research focuses on global political economy, world-systems analyses, urban sociology, labour control, and sociological theory. David L. Brunsma is Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. He was founding co-Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and is founding co-Editor of the book series by the same name at University of Georgia Press. He studies race, racism, whiteness, and racialization.

“Since the early writings of Marx and Engels, scholars have analyzed capitalism’s dispossessing tendencies. As we enter an era of elite revanchism and state gangsterism at the commanding heights of world capitalism, understanding the causes of dispossession and the emergent politics of the dispossessed has become more urgent. Mondal and Brunsma’s Urban Regimes of Dispossession in the Global South sheds light on these dynamics through an impressive synthesis of 200 years of scholarly writing, the development of a novel theoretical framework of urban dispossession regimes, and case studies from leading experts on urban livelihoods in South and West Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. Collectively, this volume highlights the social forces driving the advanced marginality of the world’s urban poor, while drawing attention to an emergent subaltern politics of urban repossession and resistance in the 21st century.”— Phillip A. Hough, Florida Atlantic University, USA. Author of At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia (2022), and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Comparative Sociology

• Contents Foreword Acknowledgements List of Figures, Tables, and Photos Notes on Contributors 1 Towards a New Debate on Urban Dispossession in the Global South Lipon Mondal and David L. Brunsma Part 1 The Formal Regime of Dispossession 2 Innovative Finance and Urban Dispossession: ‘A Plan for Everyone for a Better Life’ in Honduras Adrian Murray, Karen Spring, and Susan Spronk 3 ‘Legitimized’ Evictions: Ambiguous Uses of Legal Instruments for Displacement in Urban Nigeria Julian Walker, Victor Udemezue Onyebueke, and Barbara Lipietz 4 The Legal Regime of Dispossession in Urban India: a Study of Slum Evictions in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam Lakshmi Jahnavi Part 2 The Informal Regime of Dispossession 5 Punishing the Urban Poor: a Violent Logic of Dispossession in Neoliberal Bangladesh Lipon Mondal and David L. Brunsma 6 Illegalism, Dispossession, and Urban Space Production: the Case of the Militialization of Rio de Janeiro Orlando Alves dos Santos Junior, Taísa Sanches, and Tarcyla Fidalgo Ribeiro 7 The Politics of Urban Planning and Dispossession in Kampala, Uganda Fred Bidandi Part 3 The Subaltern Regime of Dispossession 8 Contesting Urban Dispossession in Postwar Cities: Civic Protest in Beirut Ana Maria Kumarasamy and John Nagle 9 Staging Dispossession: Struggles for Eviction and Inclusion among Brazil’s Roofless Population Marie Kolling 10 From Dispossession to Repossessions: Indigenous Retomadas in the Fragmented City Luanda Vannuchi Index