Alvarez, MK;
(2019)
Benevolent evictions and cooperative housing models in post-Ondoy Manila.
Radical Housing Journal
(In press).
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Abstract
In this paper, I forward the concept of benevolent evictions to describe a new mode of dispossession, whereby expulsions from the urban core to the periphery are facilitated through the deployment of benevolence as a technology of eviction. Drawing on the experience of a community association in Pasig City, a part of Metro Manila in the Philippines, I examine how benevolent evictions, as materialized in The People’s Plan, reconfigured community participation and activist contestations. I distil the politics of participation by troubling practices of inclusion in housing affairs and exclusion in flood control matters; and critically assess the implications of non-transgressive coproduction models on organizing for housing justice. While democratizing housing solutions did not necessarily result in the democratization of participation, I argue that the contradictions that emerge present radical possibilities for rewriting the politics of participation toward the transformation of slum-state and citizen-state relations.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Benevolent evictions and cooperative housing models in post-Ondoy Manila |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/ |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Flooding, resilience, eviction, participation, Manila |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10097856 |
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