“We Closed Down Mpape on the Judgement Day”: Resistance and Place-Making in Urban Informal Settlements in Abuja, Nigeria
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Abstract Informal settlements in major urban areas are often derided through discourses as pockets of poverty, disorder, and marginalisation. Consequently, city planning officials seek to eliminate or reduce such for more ordered planned settlements. Yet, informal continue remain a part life have, many places, increased size density. This paper provides an ethnographic account the place-making activities deployed by settlement dwellers Abuja, Nigeria, who face constant threats displacement eviction. We use analytic lens with which explore discursive, political, material strategies used individuals communities resist displacement. Through fieldwork Mabushi Mpape, we identify, on one hand, key include incremental improvement dwellings, planting economic trees, physical confrontations. On other formation associations active involvement local politics its attendant alliance-making have contributed development meanings, senses togetherness, belonging Our findings show agency how they both processes discursive narratives generate new meanings place, tenure security, right city. enables them from environment. conclude that approach exploring is fruitful understanding complexity change Nigerian context.
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عنوان ژورنال: Urban Forum
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1874-6330', '1015-3802']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-023-09492-0