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==Assignment 2== | |||
Explore a range of possible disciplines, contexts and approaches to the issues of informality. Analyse contexts and implications of the study of informality in the literature on the basis of google scholar cross referencing. Make a summary for a chosen field. | |||
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|Name of the field/discipline | |||
|Urban studies, development studies | |||
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|Give definition | |||
|Informality is associated with illegal settlements in urban development | |||
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|How universal is it? | |||
|Associated with poverty, city planning, development issues, limited access to infrastructure | |||
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|In which countries/industries/ contexts is it spread? | |||
|Spread in the countries of Latin America, Asia etc. | |||
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|Identify analogous practices, named differently in different countries | |||
|Ab bashi – Afghanistan | |||
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|How does it function? | |||
|Give example, case here | |||
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|How does it relate to other informal practices (discuss similarities and differences if appropriate) | |||
|Similarity is limited access to resources (water, sanitation), poverty levels, economic and political frameworks. Differences could be of socio-historical nature | |||
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|Indicate key sources in which it is analysed? | |||
|Roy, A. ‘Why India cannot plan its cities: informality, insurgence and the idiom of urbanization,’ Planning theory, 2009. | |||
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|Provide abstract of the best article/book/source (from Amazon or JSTOR) | |||
|... The state is an informalized entity, or informality from above. I argue that informality has to be understood not as a grassroots phenomenon, but rather as a site of extra-legal discipline, continuous with formal systems of regulation (Roy, 2003). ... | |||
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|What are the implications of the chosen understanding of informality for politics/economy/ society? | |||
|“Informality from the above” reassesses the notion of the state | |||
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|Which other concepts is it linked with? | |||
|“Hybrid formal” | |||
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|Which method was or can be used for researching this practice? | |||
|Ethnography, city planning and urban policy analysis | |||
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|Give examples of the practice | |||
|Ghana, China – give examples | |||
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|How can the informality be measured? | |||
|Size of informal settlements | |||
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==Informality simulation game== | |||
Coming soon. | |||