Urban Informality and the Spatial Politics of Street Vending: The Case of BIFF Square, Busan

Yoonseo Yang; Kyusang Kwon

doi:10.21189/jkugs.23.1.6

Urban Informality and the Spatial Politics of Street Vending: The Case of BIFF Square, Busan

Journal of the Korean Urban Geographical Society ◽

10.21189/jkugs.23.1.6 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 71-85

Author(s):

Yoonseo Yang ◽

Kyusang Kwon

Keyword(s):

Urban Informality ◽

Spatial Politics ◽

Street Vending

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Introduction: re-spatialising urban informality: reconsidering the spatial politics of street work in the global South

International Development Planning Review ◽

10.3828/idpr.2019.2 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 3-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ilda Lindell

Keyword(s):

Global South ◽

Urban Informality ◽

Spatial Politics

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Digital territories: Google maps as a political technique in the re-making of urban informality

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1177/0263775818766069 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 449-467 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Andrés Luque-Ayala ◽

Flávia Neves Maia

Keyword(s):

Informal Settlements ◽

The Political ◽

Political Space ◽

Google Maps ◽

Urban Informality ◽

Spatial Politics ◽

Digital Maps ◽

Media Technologies ◽

Digital Mapping ◽

Political Category

This article examines the mobilisation of spatial media technologies for digitally mapping informal settlements. It argues that digital mapping operates politically through a re-configuration of circulation, power, and territorial formations. Drawing on Stuart Elden’s understanding of territory, where space is ‘rendered’ as a political category, the coming together of digital mapping and the geoweb is uncovered as a political technique re-making territory through computational logics – operating as a calculative practice that, beyond simply representing space, is productive of the political spatiality that characterises territory. The article is based on an analysis of recent attempts by ICT corporates, particularly Google, to map favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, critically examining the claim that digitally mapping informal settlements is a mechanism for socio-economic inclusion. Providing a counterargument to claims around the power of digital maps to incorporate favelas, provide recognition, legitimacy, visibility and citizenship, we discuss how in the interface between digital and urban worlds, territory as a political space is constructed through economic incorporation. In doing so, the article unpacks the spatial politics of digital and smart urbanisms and the emerging sovereignties of digital territories, particularly in the context of the tension between inclusion and exclusion experienced by those who live in informal settlements in cities in the global South.

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Curb Cuts: Crip Displacements and El Edificio de Enfrente

Somatechnics ◽

10.3366/soma.2016.0191 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 198-215

Author(s):

Robert McRuer

Keyword(s):

Mexico City ◽

Global Capitalism ◽

Poor People ◽

Spatial Politics ◽

Cultural System ◽

Good Will ◽

British Embassy ◽

The Uk

Theorists of neoliberalism have placed dispossession and displacement at the centre of their analyses of the workings of contemporary global capitalism. Disability, however, has not figured centrally into these analyses. This essay attends to what might be comprehended as the crip echoes generated by dispossession, displacement, and a global austerity politics. Centring on British-Mexican relations during a moment of austerity in the UK and gentrification in Mexico City, the essay identifies both the voices of disability that are recognized by and made useful for neoliberalism as well as those shut down or displaced by this dominant economic and cultural system. The spatial politics of austerity in the UK have generated a range of punishing, anti-disabled policies such as the so-called ‘Bedroom Tax.’ The essay critiques such policies (and spatial politics) by particularly focusing on two events from 2013: a British embassy good will event exporting British access to Mexico City and an installation of photographs by Livia Radwanski. Radwanski's photos of the redevelopment of a Mexico City neighbourhood (and the displacement of poor people living in the neighbourhood) are examined in order to attend to the ways in which disability might productively haunt an age of austerity, dispossession, and displacement.

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