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“The cultural invention of the “shanty towns”.
Thursdays 10:00am‐1:00pm
Instructor: Jorge Francisco Liernur
I. INTRODUCTION
• Meeting 1, September 6th, part 1.,
Introduction . Ideas, premises and methodology of the seminar. Considerations about the ideas of
“cultural construction”.
Suggested Readings:
Gertrude Himmelfarb; “The idea of Poverty”; New York; 1985
M. Tafuri, ‘Introduction. The Historical “Project”’. In The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and
Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970's, Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 1987 [1980].
Susan D. Moeller; The cultural construction of Urban Poverty: Images of Poverty in New York City, 1890‐
1917. In Journal of American Culture Volume 18, Issue 4, pages 1–16, Winter 1995
• Meeting 1, September 6th,, Part 2.
Definitions, types, dimensions and main tendencies of the problem. The working program of the
Seminar
Suggested Readings:
Alan Gilbert; The return of the slum: does language matter?, in “International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research”, Vol 31.4 December 2007.
Mike Davis “Planet of slums”, chapters 2 and 3.
http://abahlali.org/files/Return%20of%20the%20Slum_0.pdf
Hari Srinivas; Defining Squatter Settlements. Complete version in
http://www.gdrc.org/uem/squatters/define‐squatter.html
Jean‐Charles Depaule: Les mots de la stigmatization urbaine. 2003
General information in http://www.le‐cartographe.net/index.php/dossiers‐carto/monde/67‐bidonvilles
II. THEORETICAL APPROACHES
• Meeting 2, September 13th, Part 1.
The sociological apparatus: approaches to theories of modernization and marginality
Requested Reading:
Mercedes González de la Rocha and alt.; From the marginality of the 1960s to “New Poverty” today; in
“Latin American Research Review”, Vol. 39, No. 1, February 2004
Suggested Readings:
Gino Germani , “Marginality”, 1980.
http://lasa‐2.univ.pitt.edu/LARR/prot/fulltext/vol39no1/Gonzalez.pdf
Lander, Edgardo; Theory of marginality from a Marxist perspective (Thesis)
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Perlman, Janice; “The myth of marginality; urban poverty and politics in Rio de Janeiro”, 1976.
Explosion in Latin America; Symposium The role of the city in the modernization or Latin America. Cornell.
1965‐66.
De Soto, Hernando; “The other path; the invisible revolution in the Third World”, 1980
Peter Lloyd; Anthropology in the Shanty‐Towns? ; in Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and
Ireland, , N°7. Mar.‐Apr. 2007.
• Meeting 2, September 13th, Part 2.
Marxist approaches
Requested Reading:
Frederik Engels, Florence Wischenwetzky; “The condition of the working class in England in 1844”
Suggested Readings:
David Harvey; “The right to the city”, New Left Review N53 2008.
Roger Paden; Marxism, utopianism, and modern urban planning; Utopian Studies V14 N1 2003.
Andy Merrifield; “Metromarxism: a Marxist tale of the city”
Henri Lerebvre; La Pensée marxiste et la ville. 1971.
Xing Quan Zhang; Chinese housing policy 1949‐1978: the development of a welfare system ; Planning
Perspectives, 12, 1997.
H. Handelman; The political mobilization of Urban squatter settlements. Santiago’s recent experience and its
implications for urban research, en Latin American Research Review; Vol 10 N°2
Timothy Sosnovy; The soviet housing situation today; Soviet Studies, V11 N1 1959.
Sangeeta Kamat; The privatization of public interest: theorizing NGO discourse in a neoliberal era; en Review
of International Political Economy, Vol 11 n°1 febrero 2004
James Petras; NGOs: in the service of imperialism; en Journal of Contemporary Asia, dic. 1999, vol 29 n°4
Lefebvre, Henri (1974). La production de l'espace. Paris, Anthropos. 4ª ed., 2000.
• Meeting 3, September 20th, Part 1.
Religious viewpoints
Requested Reading:
Michael Pacione; The Ecclesiastical Community of interest as a Response to Urban Poverty and
Deprivation; in “Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers”, New Series, Vol.15, N° 2 (1990).
Suggested Readings:
John O’Grady; Catholic interest in housing for low‐income families, Washington, 1950.
Leslie Toke; The housing problem, London, 1912.
Magdalen Murphy; The church and non‐profit housing: a survey; Washington, 1972.
Regional Church Planning Office; The church and public housing, Cleveland, 1961.
Robert De Simone; The church and the housing problem,Cambridge Ma. , 1967
L.C. Repland; Abbé Pierre speaks; New York, 1956
Jay William Hudson; Abbé Pierre’s people, New York, 1928
Bernard Marrey; L’Abbé Pierre et Jean Prouve; Paris 2010.
Richard Osborne; The theoretical writings of Abbé Pierre; 1966
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• Meeting 3, September 20th, Part 2.
Contemporary viewpoints
Requested Reading:
Robert Neuwirth, Prologue, “Shadow cities. A billion squatters a new urban world”; New York London,
2005
Suggested Readings:
Mark Kramer, Dispossessed. Life in our world’s urban slums, Maryknoll NY, 2009
Mike Davis, Planet of slums; London New York 2006
Isabelle Milbert; “Slums, Slum Dwellers and Multilevel governance; en The European Journal of Development
Research, Vol18, N2, Junio 2006.
Jean‐Claude Bolay; Slums and Urban Deveopment; questions on society and globalization; Jean‐Claude Bolay;
en The European Journal of Development Research, Vol 18, N2, 2006.
Diana Mitlin, David Satterthwaite; "Empowering Squatter Citizen. Local Government, Civil Society and Urban
Poverty reduction”.
Carl Patton; “Spontaneus shelter: international perspectives and prospects”
Marie Huchzwemwywe, Aly Karam “Informal settlements: a perpetual challenge?”
Francesca De Filippi; “Slum[e]scape: a challenge for sustainable development projects”
Michael Stone; “Shelter poverty: new ideas on housing affordability”
Lusiana Loanakadavu Browing; “Self help housing: the geographic impact of Habitat for Humanity”
Ananya Roy, Nezar Alsayyad (eds.); “Urban Informality. Transnational perspectives from the Middle East,
Latin America and East Asia”
Peter Cutt Lloyd; “Slums of hope?: Shanty towns of the third World”
Carmen Gonzalez; Squatters, pirates, and entrepreneurs: is informality the solution to the urban housing
crisis?, en The University of Miami Inter‐American Law review; V40 N2, 2009 (JSTOR)
B. Ferguson, Mainstreaming microfinance of housing, Housing Finance International, 2000.
Housing microfinance a key to improving habitat and the sustainability of microfinance
institutions. Small Enterprise Development, 2003.
S. Mills, The Kuyasa fund: housing microcredit in South Africa, 2007.
F. Obeng‐Odoom, Has the Habitat for Humanity Housing Scheme achieved its goals? A Ghanian case study.,
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2009.
M. Greene, Incremental construction: a srategy to facilitate Access to housing, Environment and
Urbanization, 2008
Wyayanthi Rao; Slum as theory: the South/Asian city and globalization. In International Journal of Urban &
Regional Research; Mar. 2006, Vol.30. Issue 1.
UN Habitat reports and edited documents.
• Meeting 4 September 27th, Part 1.,
III. HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS
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XIXth Century. The beginnings.
Requested Reading:
Enid Gauldie; Chapter 6. Overcrowding; in “Cruel habitations. A History of Working‐CLass housing 1780‐
1918”.
Suggested Readings:
J.A. Yelling; London County Council Slum Clearance Policies, 1889‐1907¸en “Transactions of the Institute of
British Geographers”, New Series, Vol.7, N°3, 1982
David Ward; The Victorian Slum: An enduring myth?, en “Annals of the Association of American
Geographers”, Vo.66, N° 2Junio 1976
James Yelling; “Housing and slum clearance in London”
James Yelling; “Slums and redevelopment: policy and practice in England, 1918‐1945 with particular
reference to London”.
Anthony S. Wohl; “The eternal slum:housing and social policy in Victorian London”.
J. M. Powell; The squatting occupation of Victoria (Australia) 1834‐60; en Australian Geographical Studies V7
N1 1969
James Whitelaw; An essay on the population of Dublin,
Booth map of London Poverty on line http://booth.lse.ac.uk/
Ann‐Louise Shapiro; Housing the poor of Paris, 1850‐1902, 1985
Frank M. Snowden Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884‐1911
Robert Archey Woods The Poor in Great Cities
John Burnett; “A social history of housing, 1815‐1985”.
Sophie Spalding; The Myth of the Classic Slum: Contradictory Preceptions of Boyle Heights Flats, 1900‐1991;
en “Journal of Architectural Education”, Vol.45, N°2, Feb. 1992
Lawrence Meir Friedman; “Government and slum housing”.
Jacob Riis; How the other half lives.
The battle with the slum.
• Meeting 4 September 27th, Part 2.
Early XXth Century.
Requested Reading:
Appendix A. Hooverville: a social document; The Story of Seattle’s hooverville”, Jesse Jackson, “mayor” of
the Hooverville; in “University of Washington Publications in the Social Sciences”. Vol 14, October 1944.
“Social trends in Seattle” by Calvin F. Schmid .
Suggested Readings:
Jay Winter,Jean‐Louis Robert;Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914‐1919.
Gail Radford, Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era
Richard Pommer; The architecture of urban housing in the United States during the early 1930s en Journal of
the Society of architectural Historians, V37 N4, 1978.
John Rierney II War Housing: The emergency fleet corporation experience, en The Journal of Land and Public
Utility economics, V17 N3, 1941.
Gwendolin Wright; “Building the dream: a social history of housing in America”.
Robert Wagner; “The cesspools of our civilization‐The slums”
Nathan Straus; “End the slums”
George Warnecke; Financing slum clearance; en Law and Contemporary Problems, V1, N2 1934
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N. Bouchier, K. Cruikshank; The war on the squatters, 1920‐1940: Hamilton’s beathouse community and the
re‐Creation of recreation on Burlington Bay; en Labour/Le Travail, V51, N4, 1996.
Robert de Forest; A brief history of the housing movement in America; en Annals of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science, V51, January 1914
Robert McElvaine; The Depression and New Deal. A history in Documents
Eric Sandeen; The design of public housing in the New Deal: Oskar Stonorov and the Carl Mackley Houses; en
American Quarterly, V37 N5, 1985
Clarence Stein; Housing and the depression; en The Octagon. A Journal of the American Institute of
Architects, Junio 1933
William Reed; New homes for old; public housing in Europe and America; 1940.
Simon Pepper; Peter Richmond; “Homes unfit for heroes. The slum problem in London and Neville
Chamberlain’s Unhealthy Areas Committee, 1919‐1921
S. Henderson; Self‐help housing in the Weimar Republic: The Work of Ernst May, en Housing Studies, V14, N3
1999
S. Henderson; Ernst May and the campaign to resettle the countryside: rural housing in Silesia, 1919‐1925;
en Journal of the Society of architectural Historians, V61, N2, 2002
Dan Silverman; A pledge unredeemed: the housing crisis in Weimar Germany, en Central European History,
V3. N1/2, 1970
Michael Honhardt; Company housing as urban planning in Germany, 1870‐1940; en Central European
History V23, N1, 1990
U. Salmela; Happy homes and stable society. Otto‐Ivari Meurman and omakoti in interwar Finland en
Planning Perspectives V22 N4 2007
• Meeting 5 October 4th, Part 1
Emergency housing after WWII
Requested Reading:
Alec G. Hargreaves, Introduction; in Azouz Begag: “Shantytown Kid”, Nebraska, 2007.
Suggested Readings:
Public Housing Administration. Housing and home finance agency. Washington DC; “What and why public
low‐rent housing”; 1947
Cicely Watson; Housing policy and population problems in France en Population Studies V7 N1 1953
Brian Newsome; The rise of the Grands Ensambles: government, business, and housing in postwar France
Colin Ward; The hidden history of housing en “History and Policy”
http://www.historyandpolicy.org/papers/policy‐paper‐25.html
Malissa K. Byrnes (dissertation) “French like us? Municipal policies and North African migrants in the Parisian
banlieues, 1945‐1975
Susan Reid; The Khruschev Kitchen: domesticating the scientific‐technological revolution, en Journal of
Contemporary History, V40, “Domestic Dreamworlds: Notions of Home in Post‐1945 Europe” N2 2005
Greg Castillo; Domesticating the Cold War: household consumption as propaganda in Marshall Plan
Germany; en Journal of Contemporary History, V40, “Domestic Dreamworlds: Notions of Home in Post‐1945
Europe” N2 2005
Jacob Crane, Edward Paxton; The World‐Wide housing problem; en Town Planning Review V22 N1 1951
Robert Wertheimer; The miracle of german Housing in the Postwar Period Land Economics V34 N4 1958
Lawrence Friedman; Public Housing and the poor: an overview; en California Law Review V54, N2, 1966
Sidney Bertheim; Housing in France, en Land Economics V24 N1, 1948
Wilson Wyatt (statement); Veterans Emergency housing program; 1946
Andrew Shanken; 194X, Architecture, planning, and consumer culture on the American front; 2009
“Building for defence”; Architectural Forum ,julio 1941
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Ministry of Construction; “Seven years’s housing in Japan. 1945‐1952”
R. Haerder; The Housing programme of the London County Council. Annals of collective economy. VXXII, N4.
1950.
Elain Harwood; Post war landscape and public housing; Garden History, V28 N1. 2000.
Paul F. Went; Post World‐War‐II housing policies in Italy; en Land Economics, V38 N2, 1962.
Jacob Paskins: Vague terrain: bidonvilles, run‐downhousing, and the stigmatisation of (sub)urban space in
and around Paris during the1960s, in Moveable Type Vol. 5 2009:
• Meeting 5 October 4th , Part 2
III. FIELDS OF REPRESENTATION
Shanty towns in the movies
Requested Reading:
Ivana Bentes The sertão and the favela in contemporary Brazilian film, en Lucia Nagib (ed.) “The new
brazilian cinema”.
Suggested Readings:
On French Taudis : http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=14213691
Slum flim festival: http://slumfilmfestival.org/
B.R. McElderry jr. ; The grapes of wrath: in light of modern critical theory; College English, V5 N6 1944.
George Henderson; John Steinbeck’s spatial imagination in ‘The grapes of wrath’: a critical essay; California
History, V68 N4 1989/90.
Eric Carlson; Symbolism in the grapes of wrath ; College English V19 N4 1958.
Peter Lisca; The grapes of wrath as fiction; PMLA V72 N1 1957.
Vivian Sobchack; The grapes of wrath (1940): thematic emphasis through visual style; American Quarterly
V31 N5 1979.
Tia Malkin‐Fontecchio, “The ‘New Marginality’:Representations of the Favela in recent Brazilian cinema”; en
Jonathan C. Friedman; “Performing difference: representations of "the other" in film and theater”.
R. Stamm, I.Xavier; Recent Brazilian Cinema: allegory/metacinema/carnival, en Film Quaterly, V41, N3, 1988
Mitu Sengupta; “A million dollar exit from the Anarchich slum‐world; Slumdog Millinaire’s hollow idioms of
social justice”, “Third World Quaterly” Vol.31, N°4, 2010
Dr. A.J. Sebastian; “Voicing slum‐subaltern in Slumdog Millionaire”, “Journal of Alternative Perpectives in the
Social Sciences”
Ranjani Mazumdar; Bombay Cinema. An archive of the city
Bülent Diken, City of God; City, V9 N3 2005.
A. Traverso, Contemporary Chilean Cinema and Traumatic Memory: Andrés Wood's Machuca and Raúl
Ruiz's Le domaine Perdu, Interactive Media, 2008
Filip De Boeck, Koen Van Synghel; Kinshasa on Film; between Dystopia and Utopia, Institute for
Anthropological Research of Africa, 2012. E. Bernini; Politics and the documentary film in Argentina during
the 1960s; Journal of Gender Studies, 2004 Paula Rabinowitz; They must be represented: the politics of
documentary, London,New York, 1994.
Peter Bondanella, Neorealist Aesthetics and the Fantastic: "The Machine to Kill Bad People" and
"Miracle in Milan". . Film Criticism. Winter78, Vol. 3 Issue 2, p24‐29. 6p.
J. Foot; Migration and the 'miracle'at Milan. The neighbourhoods of Baggio, Barona, Bovisa and Comasina in
the 1950s and 1960s; Jorunal of Historical Sociology, 1997.
Hardy Fredricksmeyer; Black Orpheus, Myth and Ritual: A Morphological Reading, International Journal of
the Classical Tradition. Summer2007, Vol. 14 Issue 1/2, p148‐175. 28p. 6
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Michael Chanan; Latin American Cinema in the 90s. Representational space in recent Latin American cinema.
In “Estudios interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe”; Vol. 9, N°1, Jan.‐June 1998.
• Meeting 6 October 11th, Part 1.
Shanty towns in the visual and performance arts
Requested reading:
Patricio del Real; Slums do stink: artists, bricolage and our need for doses of ‘real’ life; en Art Journal
Suggested readings
G. Wald; Community arts and health promotion: a case study in a photography workshop in “Ciudad Oculta”
(Hidden City), the shanty town N° 15 of the City of Buenos Aires”; in Salud Colectiva, 2009.
Diana Maltz; “British aestheticism and the urban working classes, 1870‐1900 : beauty for the people”;
Basingstoke [UK] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Giles Waterfield (ed.); “Art for the people : culture in the slums of late Victorian Britain”, London, 1994.
J. Radrigán; Shanty Town Theatre; in “Index on Censorship”, N° 14, February 1985.
Polly Savage; The Germ of the Future, Ghetto Biennale, Port au Prince, Third Text; Critical Perspectives on
Contemporary Art and Culture; Vol.24, N° 4, July 2010.
David Simon; Situating slums. Discourse, scale and place; in “City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory,
policy, action”; Vol.15, Issue 6, 2011.
Susan Levine; The creators: South Afirca through the Eyes of its Artists: in “African Conflict & Peacebuilding
Review”, Vol.2, N° 1, Spring 2012.
Marijke du Toit¸The General View and Beyond: From Slum‐yard to Township in Ellen Hellmann’s Photographs
of Women and the African Familial in the 1930s en Gender & History, Vol.17 No.3 November 2005 (EBSCO)
Keith Gandal; The virtues of the vicious : Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the spectacle of the slum ; New
York, 1997.
Andrew Graham‐Yooll; Cumbia villera; the sound of the slums, en Index on Censorship. Vol34, N3, 2005.
Marissa Moorman; Dueling bands and good girls: gender, music and nation in Luanda’s Musseques, 1961‐
1974, en International Journal of African Historical Studies, 37,2, 2004.
Top selling slum poverty poor posters, in
http://www.redbubble.com/shop/slum+poverty+poor+posters
• Meeting 6 October 11th, Part 2.
Shanty towns in literature
Requested reading:
Ryszard Kapuscinsky; My Alleyway, 1967, in “The shadow of the Sun”, New York 2001
Suggested readings
Dina Al‐Kasim; The shantytown: Uku hamba’ze! Grey Room N24, 2006.
Charles Palmer; “adventures of a Slum Fighter”. (GBc)
Carolyn Whitzman, Vikas, Swarup; “Slumdog millionaire; a novel”
Matthew K. McKean; “Rethinking late –victorian slum fiction: the crowd and imperialism at home”
Trevor Blount; Dickens’a slum satire in ‘Bleak House’; en The Modern Language Review, V60, N3 1965
(JSTOR)
Keith Gandal; Class representation in modern literature and film; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Daniel Siegel; Charity & condescension : Victorian literature and the dilemmas of philanthropy; Athens
(Ohio); 2012.
Kevin Swafford; Class in late‐Victorian Britain : the narrative concern with social hierarchy and its
representation ; Youngstown, NY, 2007.
Victoria Tillson; From myth to Borgata : Rome in postwar Italian narrative; 2009.
Aluisio Azevedo, The slum: a novel, Oxford NY, 2000
Om Mathur; Dehli housing: facts & fiction. New Dehli, 1968
N. Gordimer; The black interpreters: notes on African writing; Ravan, South Africa, 1973
G. Baines; On location: narratives of the South African city of the late 1940s and 1950s in film and literature;
South African Historical Journal, Vol. 48, issue 1, 2003
Lynne Strahan; A voice from Shanty Town, Meanjun Quarterly, Vol.24, N°3, 1965.
F. Recchia; Immigration, politics and violence in urban France; between fiction and facts; Information,
Society and Justice. Volume 2.1, December 2008.
Cheryl Mwaria, Silvia Federici, Joseph McLaren (eds.); African visions : literary images, political change, and
social struggle in contemporary Africa Westport, Conn., 2000.
Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm (eds.).; Urbanization and African cultures; Durham , N.C.; 2005.
• Meeting 7 October 18th, Part 1
Shanty towns in the mass media
Requested reading:
Alan Mayne; The imagined slum. Newspaper representation in three cities, 1870‐1914
Suggested readings:
Anjali Puri (ed.); Poverty in Asia: media challenges and responses, Singapore, 2002.
Diana Elizabeth Kendall, Framing class: media representations of wealth and poverty in America, Lanham,
Md., 2011
Cara Finnegan; Picturing poverty: print culture and FSA photographs, Washington 2003.
Pradip Ninan Thomas; Political economy of communications in India: the good, the bad and the ugly; New
Dehli, 2010.
Eoin Devereux; Devils and Angels: Television, Ideology and the Coverage of poverty, Luton, 1998.
Shanto Iyengar; Is anyone responsible?. How television frames political issues, Chicago, 1991.
Sharyn Kennedy, Stephen Hill ; Global Poverty, Aid Advertisements, and Cognition: Do Media Images of the
Developing World Lead to Positive or Negative Responses in Viewers?; in New Zealand Journal of
Psychology Vol. 39, No. 2, 2010
Sei‐Hill Kim, John P. Carvalho, and Andrew G. Davis; Talking about poverty: News framing of who
Is responsible for causing And fixing the problem; in J&MC Quarterly Vol. 87, Nos. .V4 AutumnlWinter 2010
With E.J. Dionne Jr, Keeping Poverty on the Page Covering an old problem in new ways, in Columbia
Journalism Review, January/February, 2008.
C. Squire; White trash pride and the exemplary black citizen: Counter‐narratives of gender," race" and
the trailer park in contemporary daytime television talk shows; Narrative Inquiry, 2002.
Diana Kendall; Framing Class. Media representations of Wealth and Poverty in America; Maryland , 2011.
• Meeting #7 October 18th, Part 2
Shanty town tourism
Requested reading:
Steinbrink, Malte (2012). ‘We did the Slum!’ – Urban Poverty Tourism in Historical Perspective.
Tourism Geographies Vol. 14 No. 2: 213‐234.Londres
Suggested readings:
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Cultural Tourism: Global And Local Perspectives
Greg Richards Pranill Ramchander Township tourism‐Blessing or blight? The case of Soweto in South Africa
Poverty tourism Regina Scheyvens, Massey University Development Bulletin 55
Intercultural Communication Studies XV: 2 2006
Ellen Ross (comp.); “Slum travelers: ladies and London poverty”
Mónica Inés Cejas ,Tourism in Shantytowns and Slums: A New “Contact Zone” in the Era of Globalization
, El Colegio de México.
Kim Dovey & Ross King; Informal Urbanism and the Taste for Slums. Tourism Geographies Vol. 14 No. 2: pp.
275‐293. 2012, London
Seth Koven; Slumming: sexual and social politics in Victorian London. Princeton, 2004
Eveline Dürre; Encounters over Garbage:Tourists and Lifestyle Migrants in Mexico. Tourism
Geographies Vol. 14 No. 2: pp. 339‐355. 2012, London.
Peter Dyson; Slum Tourism: Representing and Interpreting ‘Reality’ in Dharavi, Mumbai.
Tourism Geographies Vol. 14 No. 2: pp. 254‐274. 2012; London.
Freire‐Medeiros, Bianca "The favela and its touristic transits." Geoforum Vol. 40(No. 4): pp.
580‐588; 2009.
Fabian Frenzel & Ko Koens; Slum Tourism: Developments in a Young Field of Interdisciplinary Tourism
Research. Tourism Geographies Vol. 14 No. 2: pp. 195‐212; 2012, London.
Linke, Uli (2012). Mobile Imaginaries, Portable Signs: Global Consumption and Representations of
Slum Life. Tourism Geographies Vol. 14 No. 2: pp. 294‐319.Londres
Robert Dowling; Slumming in New York : from the waterfront to mythic Harlem; Urbana, Illinois; 2007.
Seaton, Tony (2012). Wanting to Live with Common People? The Literary Evolution of Slumming.
Slum Tourism: Poverty, Power and Ethics. F. Frenzel, K. Koens and M. Steinbrink. Abingdon,
Routledge: pp. 21‐48.
Toweill, James (2010). Slumming and the 19th century geographical imagination Tesis para optar al grado
de Master of Arts, Dept. of English, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
• Meeting 8 October 25 th. Part 1
Shanty towns and the International Financing Institutions
Requested reading:
Herbert Werlin ; The slum upgrading myth; en Urban Studies, V36, N9, 1999 (EBSCO)
Suggested readings
Office of International Affairs, Department of housing and Urban Development; “How to build a
house…using self‐help housing techniques.
National Federation of housing societies; “Review of Self‐help housing”. 1954.
Richard Margolis; “Self‐Help housing in urban areas”. International Self‐Help housing association; 1968.
Department of Housing and urban development. Office of International Affairs; “Special report on
techniques of aided self‐help housing….some examples of US and overseas experience”.
International Federation for Housing & Planning, Interamerican Planning Sociery; World PLanning and
Housing Congress, may 28. 1960 SAN Juan PR; “Housing in PR under the mutual aid and self‐help program”.
Planning board of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico + United States housing and home finance Agency/
United States foreign operations administration; “Faith in People”. 1954.
James Midgley; Community participation, social development and the stat.
Donn Hart; Low cost housing in south and south‐east Asia. By Department of Social Affairs, UN, Review en
Pacific Affairs, V25 N2, 1952.
John Amstrong; The attitude toward UNESCO; en International Organization, V8 N2 1954.
Robert Jordan; Boycott Diplomacy: The US, the UN and UNESCO en Public Administration Review, V44 N4
1984.
S.E. Graham; The (Real)politiks of Culture: US Cultural Diplomacy in UNESCO, 1946‐1954; en Diplomatic
History, V30 N2, 2006.
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Jerry Kalarickal, Kate Owens, The evolving world Bank support for shelter.
Alexandre Apsan Frediani; The World Bank Urban Policies, from housing sector to ‘sustainable cities´. The
urban poor of Salvador da Bahia, Brazi.,
Robert Davison; Technological Potentials in Home Construction; en Law and Contemporary Problems, V12,
N1, 1947.
Eduardo Gudynas; “La desigualdad y la fatalidad tropical. Las ideas del desarrollo del BID”; en Tercer Mundo
Económico, Montevideo, N131, 2000.
David Horowitz; The Alliance for progress en The Socialist Register, 1964.
Jose Bolívar Fresneda; The Development Bank and the initial failure of the industrial program in Puerto Rico,
1942‐1948 en Centro Journal, VXX N2 , 2008.
Robert M. Buckley, Jerry Kalarickal; “Thirty years of World Bank shelter lending: what have we learned?”.
Augusto De la Torre, Alain Ize, Sergio Schmukler; “Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean:
the road ahead”.
Richard Grant y Jan Nijman “The global crisis in foreign aid”.
UN Seminar on Housing and Comnunity improvement in Asia and the Far East; New Dehli,
Housing and home finance agency. Office of the administrator. International housing service. Washington,
DC; Catalog of projects of international cooperation in housing and town and country planning. 1957.
International Cooperation Administration . Department of State Publication 6815. Economic Cooperation
Series 52, Julio 1959. Public Services Division Bureau of Public Affairs; “Technical Cooperation; The dramatic
story of helping others to help themselves”.
United Nations; “United Nations programs of technical assistance. A cooperative effort to aid under‐
developed countries”.
United Nations; Technical Assistance Committee; “Eighth report of the Techincal Assistance Board”; 1956.
UN Economic Commission for Africa. Standing Committee on Housing and physical planning; “Pilot enquiry
into housebuilding costs (working paper by the secretariat)”; 1964.
UN Economic Commission for Africa. Standing Committee on Housing and physical planning; “Housing policy
in over‐all development planning (working paper by the secretariat)”; 1964.
United Nations Economic and social Council. Committee on housing, building and planning. First, Second,
Third and fourth sessions; 1963/4/5/6.
International Federation for housing and planning; 27th World Congress for Housing and Planning;
Jerusalem, “Housing policy in regions of rapid population growth” 1964.
“Information on UN activities in the fields of building, housing and town and country planning”; 1951
UN. Bureau of Social Affairs; “First report on the current activities of the UN, its regional economic
commissions and the specialized agencies in the fields of housing, building and planning; 1957.
UN. Bureau of Social Affairs; “Current activities of the UN, its regional economic commissions and the
specialized agencies in the fields of housing, building and planning. Second Annual report”; 1958.
UN. Economic and social council. Economic Commission for Latin America; Committee of the whole,
“Expanded program of the technical assistance for economic development. Assistance to countries and
territories in the Latin American Region During 1953”; Santiago; 1954.
UN.Economic and Social Council (ESC); “Seminar on Urbanization Problems in LA. Some Policy implications of
Urvanization”; 1958.
Jeffrey Taffet; Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy. The alliance for Progress in Latin America.
Francis Adams; Dollar Diplomacy. US economic assistance to Latin America.
World Bank Housing Subsidies: the political economy of reform in a best situation
Text of Act of Bogota, recommending Measures for Social Improvement and Economic Development within
the Framework of Operation Pan America, adopted by the Council of the Organization of American States on
September 13, 1960, and approved by the Council in a resolution dated October 11, 1960
Roberto Porzecanski; Alliance for Progress or Alianza para el progreso. A reassessment of the Latin American
contribution to the Alliance for Progress. 2005.
The Charter of Punta del Este, Establishing an Alliance for Progress Within the Framework of Operation Pan
America; August 17, 1961;
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• Meeting 8 October 25th. Part 2
Shanty towns and the discourse of architects and urban planners
Requested reading;
Rem Koolhaas et alt.; Lagos; in Mutations, Bordeaux 2001.
Suggested readings:
Vikram Bhatt, Bhusham Pathare; “How the other half builds” 1984. Centre for Minimum Cost Housing,
Montreal
Chris Abel; Architecture and identity: towards a global eco‐cujlture.
Dwyer, D.J.; The city in the Third World.
Rudofsky, Bernard; Architecture without architects: a short introduction to non‐pedigreed architecture.
Steele, James; Architecture for a changing world.
Theoharis, David; Search for identity: contemporary Third World architecture.
Turner, John; Housing priorities, settlement patterns, and urban development in modernizing countries.
Turner, John; The housing problem in Latin american countries.
Tzonis, Alecxander; Tropical architecture: critical regionalism in the age of globalization.
Leonardo Benevolo: The history of the city, 1981.
Payne, Geoffrey K.; Urban Housing in the third world; London: Leonard Hill, 1977 . ‐ XIV, 242 p. : il.
Christopher Alexander; The Timeless Way of Building 1979)
Christopher Alexander; A New Theory of Urban Design (1984)
Turner, John F. C. (1968). "The Squatter Settlement: An Architecture that Works". Architectural Design 38:
355‐360.
Turner, John F. C.; Fichter, Robert, eds. (1972). Freedom to Build, dweller control of the housing process. New
York: Macmillan.
John Turner; Housing by people: towards autonomy in building environments 1977 (SIBUC)
Sharif S Kahatt; PREVI‐Lima’s Time: Positioning Proyecto Experimental de Vivienda in Peru’s Modern
Project; Architectural Design; Special Issue: Latin America at the Crossroads;
Volume 81, Issue 3, pages 22–25, May/June 2011
Alejandro Aravena; Elemental: A Do Tank (pages 32–37); in ; Architectural Design; Special Issue: Latin
America at the Crossroads; Volume 81, Issue 3, May/June 2011
Interview with, Alfredo Brillembourg and Adriana Navarro‐Sertich; From Product to Process: Building
on Urban‐Think Tank’s Approach to the Informal City (pages 104–109); in ; Architectural Design;
Special Issue: Latin America at the Crossroads; Volume 81, Issue 3, May/June 2011
Elisa Silva; Interpreting Design Knowledge Through Latin American Slum Upgrading Efforts; Arthur W.
Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship 2011; Harvard University Graduate School Of Design
March I 2002.
IV. CONTEMPORARY SITUATION WORLDWIDE
• Meeting 9 November 1st. Part 1
The case of Argentina
Requested reading
Javier Auyero, Débora Alejandra Swistun; Villas del Riachuelo. Life amid Hazards, Garbage, and Poison; in
“Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown”; Oxford New York, 2009
Suggested readings
F.Adams, S. Riemer, R. Isaacs, R. Mitchell, G. Breese; [s/Jorge E. Hardoy‐Harvard]; Panel I: The neighborhood
Concept in Theory and Application; en Land Economics, V25, N1, 1949.
A.F. Corwin; Argentina’s War on Poverty: A lesson for Tio Sam? En Urban Affairs Review, V5 N4, 1970.
Daniel James; The peronist left, 1955‐1975; en Journal of Latin American Studies, V8 N2, 1976.
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Adalbert Krieger Vasena; Comments on the influence of Raul Prebisch on Economic Policy‐Making in
Argentina, 1950‐1962; en Latin American Research Review V23 N2, 1988.
Javier Auyero; ‘This is a lot like the Bronx, isn’t it?’ Lived experiences of marginality in an Argentine
slum; in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; Volume 23, Issue 1, pages 45–
69, March 1999.
Scott L. Goldstein; Planning from the grassroots: the urban shantytown in Argentina; 1992.
Rachel Arin Samuels; Shantytown Dwellers and Neoliberalism in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Rethinking Slum
Life; Pennsylvania; 2009.
Meeting 9 November 1st , Part 2
The case of India
Requested reading:
Introduction; in Laxmi Nrusingha Prasad Mohanty, Swati Mohanty; “Slum in India”, New Dehli, 2005.
Suggested readings:
Anupurna Rathor; “Slum dwellers, curse on development”.
Shirish Patel; Slum rehabilitation in Mumbai: possible if done differently en Economic and Political weekly
V31 N18 1966.
Shirish Patel; Slum rehabilitation: 40 lakh free lunches? ; Economic and Political Weekly V30 N40 1995.
Ashok Ranjan Basu; “Urban squatter housing in Third World”
Vinit Mukhija, “Squatters as developers?: slum redevelopment in Mumbai”
R.L. Sehgal; Slum upgradation : emerging issue & policy implications; New Delhi : Bookwell Publications,
1998.
Andréa Menefee Singh; The urban poor : slum and pavement dwellers in the major cities of India; New
Delhi : Manohar, 1980.
Satish Sinha; Slum eradication and urban renewal; New Dehli, India, 1985.
• Meeting #10 November 8th , Part 1
Cases of Africa
Requested reading:
Jacqueline M. Klopp; Remembering the destruction of Muroto: slum demolitions land and democratization
in Kenya”, en African Studies, 67,3, December 2008.
Suggested readings
Susan Parnell; Race, power and urban control: Johannesburg´s inner city slum‐yards, 1910‐1923 Journal of
Southern African Studies, V29 N3 2003.
Tania Kaiser; Between a camp and a hard place: rights, livelihood and experiences of the local settlemenbt
system for long term refigees in Uganda; The Journal of Modern African Studies, V44 N4 2006.
Kinuthia Macharia; Slum clearance and the informal economy in Nairobi; The Journal of Modern African
Studies, V30 N2 1992.
Daniel Immerwahr;The politics of architecture and urbanism in postcolonial Lagos, 1960‐1986; Journal of
African Cultural Studies, V19 N2 2007.
Donald W. Griffin; Urban development in Africa: the case of Lagos;
Liora Bigon; Between local and colonial perceptions: the history of slum clearances in Lagos (Nigeria), 1924‐
1960; African and Asian Studies 7; 2008.
A. Graham Tipple; The need for New Urban Housing in Sub‐saharan Africa: Problem or Opportunity; Affrican
Affairs, V93 N373, 1994.
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Leroy Vail; The Making of and Imperial Slum: Nyasaland and its railways. 1895‐1935 ; The Journal of African
History, V16 N1, 1975.
Richard Grant; “Globalizing city: the urban and economic transformation of Accra, Ghana”
Sara Candiracci, Raakel Syrjänen; “UN‐Habitat and the Kenya slum upgrading programme: strategy
document”
UN‐Habitat; “Analytical perspective of pro‐poor slum upgrading frameworks”
Livison Mutekede, Noah Sigauke; “Housing finance mechanisms in Zimbawe”
George Owusu, Samuel Agyei‐Mensah & Ragnhild Lund; Slums of hope and slums of despair: mobility and
livelihoods in Nima, Accra” Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift, Vol.62, Oslo.
George Owusu, “Small towns in Ghana: justifications for their promotion under Ghana’s decentralization
programme”; en African Studies Quarterly, Vol.8, N°2 , 2005.
M. Tamarkin; Tribal associations tribal solildarity and tribal chauvinism in a Kenya town; en Journal of
African History, XIV, 2, 1973
Tony Seymour; “Squatter settlement and class relations in Zambia”, en Review of African Political Economy;
N°3 mayo‐oct 1975.
Public works department headquarters, Lagos, Nigeria. Architectural branch; “Information book. Low‐cost
housing in colonial territories”; 1949
Kwadwo O . Konadu‐Agyemang; Reflections on the absence of squatter settlements in west african cities:
the case of Kumasi, Ghana; en Urban Studies V28 N1 1981
• Meeting #10 November 8th Part 2
Favelas and other cases in Latin America
Requested reading:
William Mangin; Latin American Squatter Settlements; a problem and a solution; Latin American Research
Review; Vol2 N°3, Verano 1967.
Suggested readings:
Michael Doran, Renee Landis; Origin and persistence of an Inner‐city slum in Nassau; Geographical Review
V70 N2 1980;
Richard P. Schaedel (review) The new urban populations. Case studies and analysis. en Journal of
Interamerican Studies and World Affairs V17 N1 1975
Charles Sargent; (Review) Urbanization in Latin America. Approaches and issues. By JE Hardoy; en The
Hispanic American Historical Review, V56 N4, 1976
J.R. Hardoy; Conclusions and Evaluation of the Symposium on ‘The process of urbanization in America since
its origins to the present time; en Latin American Research Review, V2 N2 1967.
Richard Morse; Trends and issues in Latin American Urban Research, 1965‐1970; Latin American research
Review, V6 N1 1971.
Lloyd Rogler; Slum neighborhoods in Latin America; Journal of Inter American Studies, V9 N4, 1967
Christoph Stadel; Squatter settlements in Medellin, Colombia; a Reply, en Area Vol 10 N°1, 1978
M. Solaun, W. Finn, S. Kronus; “Renovation of a squatter settlement in Colombia; en Land Economics, Vol. 50,
N°2 , mayo 1974
P. Buksmann, G. Towley;”Squatter settlements in Medellin, Colombia; a Rejoinder”, en Area, Vol 10 N° 1,
1978
Felipe Hernández, Peter Kellett y Lea K. Allen; “Rethinking the inormal city. Critical perspectives from Latin
America”
Dennis Rodgers; “Slum wars of the 21th century: Gangs, Mano Dura and the new urban geography of
conflicto in Central America” en “Development and Change” 40(5); 2009
Kees Koonings & Dirk Kruijt; “Fractured cities. Social exclusion, urban violence & contested spaces in Latin
America”
Janice Perlman “Favela. Four decades of living on the edge in rio de Janeiro”
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Peter M. Ward; The squatter settlement as slum or housing solution: evidence from Mexico City, en Land
Economics, Vol 50, N°2 Mayo 1976
P. M. Ward, Self‐help housing in Mexico City: social and economic determinats of success en The town
planning review, Vol 49, N°1, enero 1978
A. Portes; The urban slum in Chile: Types and correlates; en Land Economics, Vol 47, N°3, agosto 1971
Alejandro Portes; Housing Policy, urban poverty and the state. The favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1972‐1976; en
Latin American Research Review, V14 N2 1976
Alejandro Portes, Migration, poverty and the city in Latin America; en Latin American Research Review; Vol
16 N°3, 1981
Janice Perelman; Marginality from myth to reality. The favelas of Rio de Janeiro. 2007
Janice Perelman; The metamporphosis of Marginality: Four generations in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro; en
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and social science, V606 N1 2006.
• Meeting #11 November 15th Part 1
An introduction to Asian cases
Requested reading:
J.Dwyer; Urban squatters: the relevance of the Hong Kong experience; en Asian Survey, V10 N7 1970.
Suggested readings:
On-Kwok Lai; The logic of urban development and slum settlements: the Peoples Republic of China; in Housing
the Urban Poor; 1995/11/15.
Lan Yu‐yun; Causes of "Slum‐like" Dwelling Places in China:The Floating Population Community in the
"Village in City”; in Jinlin University Journal Social Sciences Edition; 2007‐05.
Zhou Yigang; The Comparison between Two "Urban Disease”. Urban Villages in China and the Western Slum
Problem around 19th Centuries; in New Architecture, 2007‐02.
Nguyen, Hien Phuong, The urbanization of Hanoi under neoliberalism and its effects on slum settlements;
Thesis. Mount Holyoke College; 2010.
Richard Ulack; Migration to the Slum and Squatter Communities of Cagayan de Oro City, The Philippines
International Migration Review, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 355‐376
Shlomo Angel; Upgrading Slum Infrastructure: Divergent Objectives in Search of a Consensus; in Third World
Planning Review; Liverpool, Volume 5, Number 1 / 1983:Feb.
Shahadat Hossain; “Urban poverty in Bangladesh: slum communities, migration and social integrations”
S.V. Sethuraman; “The urban informal sector in Asia: an annotated bibliography”
Sabina Faiz Rashid; “Strategies to reduce exclusion among populations living in urban slum settlements in
Bangladesh”; en Journal of Health Population and Nutrition. 2009 August; 27(4)
The 2005 census and mapping of slums in Bangladesh: design, select results and application; en International
Journal of Health Geographics; 8:32, 2009. Completo en http://www.ij‐
healthgeographics.com/content/pdf/1476‐072X‐8‐32.pdf
S. Robert Aiken; Squatters and Squater settlements in Kuala Lumpur; en Geographical Review, Vol71, N°2
Verano 1967.
Jan Nijman; “A study of space in Mumbai’s slums”, en Tikdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie,
2010, vol 1001, N° 1
Peter Druijven; Comments on Nijman´s ‘A study of space in Mumbai’s slums’. Ferom slumdog to Mumbaikar:
a space odyssey? en Tikdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2010, vol 1001, N° 1 .
Vinit Mukhija; Enabling Slum Redevelopment in Mumbai: Policy Paradox in Practice; en Housing Studies, Vol.
16, No. 6, 791–806, 2001.
in The Economist ; A flourishing slum. The residents of Dharavi, allegedly Asia’s biggest slum are thriving in
hardship.
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G. Angeles,P. Lance, J.Barden‐O’Fallon, N. Islam, A.Mahbub, N.Islam; The 2005 census and mapping of slums
in Bangladesh: design, select results and application; en International Journal of Health Geographics, 8: 32,
June 2009.
Edmund Cheng City slums as a recognition of migrant’s rights en Current Affairs N°4 2008.
United Nations. Habitat; Slum trends in Asia in
http://www.unhabitat.org/documents/media_centre/APMC/Slum%20trends%20in%20Asia.pdf
Qin Hui; China Slums: When will the poor get a break?; in
http://www.eeo.com.cn/ens/biz_commentary/2011/04/08/198295.shtml
Vyjayanthi Rao; “Slum as Theory. The South Asian city and globalization”; en “International Journal of Urban
and Regional Research 30:1. 2006.
• Meeting #11 November 15th Part 2
Ghettos and camps
Requested reading:
Gaim Kibreab; Why governments prefer spatially segregated settlement sites for urban refugees , in Home,
Vol 24, N°1, 2007.
Suggested readings:
Marwan Khawaja, “Migration and the reproduction of povwrty: The refugee camps in Jordan”, in
International Migration vol 41, #2 2003.
Vakerie Kaussen; “States of Exception. Haiti’s IDP Camps” in Monthly Review, February 2011.
Vernon Cisney, “Categories of Life: The status of the Camp in Derrida and Agamben” , in The southern
Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLVI, 2008.
Richard Ek, “Giorgio Agamben and the spatialities of the camp: an introduction” in Sweedish Society of
Anthropology and Geography, 2006
Giorgio Agamben; State of Exception. Homo Sacer II, 1 (2003),
Z Zameret, J Chipman The Melting Pot in Israel: The commission of inquiry concerning education in
the immigrant camps during the early years of the state, New York, 2002
D Bernstein, Immigrant transit camps. The formation of dependent relations in Israeli society
‐ Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1981.
David M. Hughes Refugees and squatters: immigration and the politics of territory on the Zimbabwe‐
Mozambiqueborder. Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 25, Issue 4, 1999
A. Hansen, Once The Running Stops: Assimilation Of Angolan Refugees Into Zambianborder Villages, in
Disasters Special Issue: Refugees Volume 3, Issue 4, pages 369–374, December 1979
Sarah K. Lischer, Dangerous sanctuaries: refugee camps, civil war, and the dilemmas of humanitarian aid,
Ithaca, 2006
• Meeting #12 November 29th
Student papers presentations