Wie beeinflussen zunehmende Bewegung und Mobilität die Produktion des Raums und ihre künftigen Chancen in urbanisierenden Regionen? Ausgehend von Feldforschungen in Bangladesch und Westbengalen präsentiert die Autorin die AlltagsLebensGeschichten von neun Individuen ohne festen Wohnsitz und verwebt sie mit den Ansätzen von Denker*innen wie Marc Augé, Walter Benjamin, Partha Chatterjee, Henri Lefebvre, Ananya Roy, Saskia Sassen, u.a.
How do increasing movement and mobility impact the production of space and its future chances in urbanising regions? On the basis of empirical research in Bangladesh and West Bengal, the author presents the everyday-life-stories of nine individuals without a fixed abode and intertwines them with the approaches of thinkers such as Marc Augé, Walter Benjamin, Partha Chatterjee, Henri Lefebvre, Ananya Roy, Saskia Sassen, et al.
ArchipelagosFrom Urbanisation to Translocalisation
Cause if and insofar as 'strange' settlement formations of the kind I got to see on the return journey from Bhola, deep in the 'rural', correlate with the augumented movement of people, the narrative of urbanisation as process of concentration–extension is called into question. If other, decentring of even ex-centric, forces are impacting urban growth and reshuffling all levels of social space—the near (habitation), the middle (the city) and the far (state and its macro-level connections)—the city-hegemonic views that dominate urban studies must be abandoned once for all, and the new norm of production of space called by name.
»[...] Bertuzzo’s book is a must-read for scholars engaging with questions of labour, migration and cities.«
Prasad Khanolkar, Indian Journal of Human Development (14/2020)