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Gendered dispossession and women's changing poverty by slum/squatter redevelopment projects: A case study from Turkey.
- Source :
- Environment & Planning A; Aug2023, Vol. 55 Issue 5, p1190-1206, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Informal settlements have been crucial sites of spatial dispossession and neoliberal urbanization with the displacement of the urban poor from profitable urban areas. This study examines the gendered implications of dispossession and changing dimensions of women's poverty as a result of slum/squatter redevelopment projects. Based on the research of the Kadifekale Urban Transformation Project in Turkey that resettled residents of a highly concentrated Kurdish migrant squatter settlement into a new mass housing estate, the study highlights the impacts of profit-driven urban development projects on women's access to affordable housing, support networks, care work, and employment opportunities. Kurdish women's experiences of displacement and resettlement illustrate in particular the intersectional aspects of gendered dispossession and asset erosion with their exclusion from affordable housing options, dispersal of their communities, and separation from their ethnic employment niches. Drawing upon dispossession and feminist development literature, the study sheds light upon the gendered experiences of displacement, changing livelihood opportunities, gendered access and control over resources, and strategies of resistance that result from slum redevelopment projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HOUSING
SQUATTER settlements
SLUMS
CITIES & towns
WOMEN'S programs
RURAL poor
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0308518X
- Volume :
- 55
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Environment & Planning A
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 171374024
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X211016864