Laura Weinstein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 223576 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laura Weinstein |
| NOMBRES | Laura |
| APELLIDO | Weinstein |
| FIRMA | WEINSTEIN L |
| AFILIACIONES | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-8948-0712 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 237 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1967 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The real estate turn in the slum
This article contributes to scholarship on Asia’s “real estate turn” through a comparison of in situ “slum redevelopment” programs underway in Delhi and Mumbai that reveals the institutional underpinnings and character of state involvement in each city. Comparative research on state-led financialization in Asia, has typically tended to treat China as the paradigmatic case, with its centralized land regimes and relatively autonomous state land man…
Bringing nationalism into global urban studies
This critical commentary investigates the resurgence of nationalist politics through a global urban studies lens, arguing that cities are critical arenas in which contemporary nationalist projects are enacted, negotiated and contested. While scholarship on nationalism, geopolitics and international relations remains largely state-centric, global urban studies has tended to treat cities as denationalised nodes embedded in transnational networks of…
Missing maps and elastic eligibility
This article contends with illiberal modes of territorial securitization as forms of urban governance that secure authority through bureaucratic practices that destabilize territorial archives and the presumed fixity of property, land, and planning. Drawing on cases from Ho Chi Minh City and Mumbai, it examines the disappearance of a ratified planning map in the Thủ Thiêm New Urban Area and the recalibration of eligibility lists in Mumbai's Slum …
Reflections on Critical Urban Studies in Perilous Times
Delivery as Dispossession
Spatializing stigma-power
In disadvantaged neighborhoods such as informal settlements (or “slums” in the Indian context), infrastructural deficits and social conditions have been associated with residents’ poor mental health. Within social determinants of health framework, spatial stigma, or negative portrayal and stereotyping of particular neighborhoods, has been identified as a contributor to health deficits, but remains under-examined in public health research and may …
In This Issue
In this Issue
At the start of 2022, the newest peaks of COVID cases associated with the Omicron variant remind us that the pandemic is far from over and the challenges we face remain significant. From climate disasters and the imperatives of rapid decarbonization, to ethno-racial marginalization and the displacement of the world's most vulnerable populations, the complex challenges facing humanity and the planet require political will, radical imagination, and…
Historicising Housing Rights
This article traces the historical roots of contemporary housing struggles in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata, emphasising the long-term impacts of post-Partition refugee resettlement. Analysing Partition as a ‘critical event’, we discuss the distinct ways in which local administrators, political leaders and city residents responded to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees, traumatised, impoverished and made homeless by Partition. As they re…
Grounding urban production
Mumbai's slum redevelopment projects have emerged as key sites for financial investment. Yet, while residents' claims-making has shaped the manner in which slum lands have been converted into financial investments, their interests and actions have rarely been viewed as part of the financialization processes. This paper situates local residents and developers in the networks of intermediaries increasingly used to study housing financialization. Ba…
Toward a Global Urban Sociology
Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from the Northern, particularly American, cities on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them in terms of a standard urban vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way of seeing. We need a vocabulary that is able to accommodate their different urban experience. This special issue contributes to the work of building that vocabulary. We sele…
Evictions
Resilient Growth
Academic and policy literatures on urban climate resilience tend to emphasize 'good planning' as the primary means for addressing the growing risk of flooding in Asia's coastal megacities. Cities have come to rely on disaster and climate resilience plans to future-proof their landscapes and protect vulnerable populations. Yet while data is collected, models are built and plans are drafted, environmentally destructive development practices continu…
Insecurity as confinement
A growing literature on contested urban politics has revealed the political agency of seemingly marginal urban residents, including those experiencing the threat of eviction. Yet with much of this work highlighting single instances of successful resistance, the agency of informal urbanites can be overstated and much of what is understood as resistance may actually be confinement. This article addresses this issue by situating an ethnographic anal…
Street Corner Secrets
One-Man Handled
This article considers the fractured nature of state power in contemporary Mumbai. Based on a case study of the ongoing Dharavi Redevelopment Project, a 2-billion US dollar initiative to redevelop Mumbai's most infamous 'slum' settlement as a mixed-use, mixed-income township, it details the new state strategies emerging to support urban development efforts in India today. Identifying the structural weaknesses that have traditionally hindered deve…
Demolition and Dispossession
The Politics of Government Expenditures in Tanzania, 1999-2007
What allocation strategy do hegemonic party regimes pursue in order to increase their level of electoral support? Although the literature has established that targeting resources to marginally supportive districts is the most effective distributive strategy for competitive democracies, it has not been possible to make a clear prediction about the best strategy for hegemonic party regimes. This article seeks to address this puzzle by examining the…
Exposing the Zenana
This paper explores a group of photographic portraits taken by the Jaipur maharaja Ram Singh II of female inhabitants of his zenana. These largely unexplored portraits of upper-class Rajput women who lived in purdah inhabit a peculiar intermediate zone between orientalist ‘harem’ photography and Victorian studio portraiture, upsetting our expectations of both. In order to elucidate the unique character of these portraits, this paper sets them wit…
The Changing Right to the City
This article examines the changing housing rights regimes amidst the urban renewal currently underway in Shanghai and Mumbai. We examine the policies and regulations that govern residential security and housing tenure, the alteration of policy implementations by electoral and extra–electoral contestations, and the opportunities and strategies for housing activism in each context. We find that political contestations have enabled the construction …
Democracy in the Globalizing Indian City
Transformations under way in Indian cities have begun to alter the opportunities for democratic participation among the urban poor. Highlighting efforts to promote globally oriented urban developments in Mumbai, this article examines the state's engagement with groups directly impacted by these efforts. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with key stakeholders in the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), the article traces the character …
Mumbai's Development Mafias
For over a decade, researchers have analyzed the effects of liberalization and globalization on urban development, considering the local political implications of shifts at the national and global scales. Taking the case of Mumbai, this article examines how the past 15 years of political reforms in India have reshaped property markets and the politics of land development. Among the newly empowered actors, local criminal syndicates, often with glo…
Explaining incomprehensible Bombay in three volumes
The Significance of the Armagh Dirty Protest
The Significance of the Armagh Dirty Protest Laura Weinstein Beginning in february 1980, a group of female inmates held in Armagh Women's Prison decided that they preferred to live in absolute filth rather than accept prison conditions as dictated to them by the officers. These women, mostly in their early twenties, refused to wash or use toilets. They refused to change into clean clothes or to accept clean bedsheets from the prison staff. Rather…
No One Will Let Her Live
How do poor, chronically vulnerable women living in Delhi's informal settlements negotiate their survival and well-being? In No One Will Let Her Live, medical anthropologist Claire Snell-Rood offer
Mumbai's Development Mafias
For over a decade, researchers have analyzed the effects of liberalization and globalization on urban development, considering the local political implications of shifts at the national and global scales. Taking the case of Mumbai, this article examines how the past 15 years of political reforms in India have reshaped property markets and the politics of land development. Among the newly empowered actors, local criminal syndicates, often with glo…
The Changing Right to the City
This article examines the changing housing rights regimes amidst the urban renewal currently underway in Shanghai and Mumbai. We examine the policies and regulations that govern residential security and housing tenure, the alteration of policy implementations by electoral and extra–electoral contestations, and the opportunities and strategies for housing activism in each context. We find that political contestations have enabled the construction …
Democracy in the Globalizing Indian City
Transformations under way in Indian cities have begun to alter the opportunities for democratic participation among the urban poor. Highlighting efforts to promote globally oriented urban developments in Mumbai, this article examines the state's engagement with groups directly impacted by these efforts. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with key stakeholders in the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), the article traces the character …
The Politics of Government Expenditures in Tanzania, 1999-2007
What allocation strategy do hegemonic party regimes pursue in order to increase their level of electoral support? Although the literature has established that targeting resources to marginally supportive districts is the most effective distributive strategy for competitive democracies, it has not been possible to make a clear prediction about the best strategy for hegemonic party regimes. This article seeks to address this puzzle by examining the…
Demolition and Dispossession
Evictions
Resilient Growth
Academic and policy literatures on urban climate resilience tend to emphasize 'good planning' as the primary means for addressing the growing risk of flooding in Asia's coastal megacities. Cities have come to rely on disaster and climate resilience plans to future-proof their landscapes and protect vulnerable populations. Yet while data is collected, models are built and plans are drafted, environmentally destructive development practices continu…
One-Man Handled
This article considers the fractured nature of state power in contemporary Mumbai. Based on a case study of the ongoing Dharavi Redevelopment Project, a 2-billion US dollar initiative to redevelop Mumbai's most infamous 'slum' settlement as a mixed-use, mixed-income township, it details the new state strategies emerging to support urban development efforts in India today. Identifying the structural weaknesses that have traditionally hindered deve…
Toward a Global Urban Sociology
Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from the Northern, particularly American, cities on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them in terms of a standard urban vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way of seeing. We need a vocabulary that is able to accommodate their different urban experience. This special issue contributes to the work of building that vocabulary. We sele…
Grounding urban production
Mumbai's slum redevelopment projects have emerged as key sites for financial investment. Yet, while residents' claims-making has shaped the manner in which slum lands have been converted into financial investments, their interests and actions have rarely been viewed as part of the financialization processes. This paper situates local residents and developers in the networks of intermediaries increasingly used to study housing financialization. Ba…
The Significance of the Armagh Dirty Protest
The Significance of the Armagh Dirty Protest Laura Weinstein Beginning in february 1980, a group of female inmates held in Armagh Women's Prison decided that they preferred to live in absolute filth rather than accept prison conditions as dictated to them by the officers. These women, mostly in their early twenties, refused to wash or use toilets. They refused to change into clean clothes or to accept clean bedsheets from the prison staff. Rather…
Social experience and social schemata
Reflections on Critical Urban Studies in Perilous Times
Delivery as Dispossession
Insecurity as confinement
A growing literature on contested urban politics has revealed the political agency of seemingly marginal urban residents, including those experiencing the threat of eviction. Yet with much of this work highlighting single instances of successful resistance, the agency of informal urbanites can be overstated and much of what is understood as resistance may actually be confinement. This article addresses this issue by situating an ethnographic anal…
Social experience and social schemata
The Significance of the Armagh Dirty Protest
The Significance of the Armagh Dirty Protest Laura Weinstein Beginning in february 1980, a group of female inmates held in Armagh Women's Prison decided that they preferred to live in absolute filth rather than accept prison conditions as dictated to them by the officers. These women, mostly in their early twenties, refused to wash or use toilets. They refused to change into clean clothes or to accept clean bedsheets from the prison staff. Rather…
Explaining incomprehensible Bombay in three volumes
Mumbai's Development Mafias
For over a decade, researchers have analyzed the effects of liberalization and globalization on urban development, considering the local political implications of shifts at the national and global scales. Taking the case of Mumbai, this article examines how the past 15 years of political reforms in India have reshaped property markets and the politics of land development. Among the newly empowered actors, local criminal syndicates, often with glo…
The Changing Right to the City
This article examines the changing housing rights regimes amidst the urban renewal currently underway in Shanghai and Mumbai. We examine the policies and regulations that govern residential security and housing tenure, the alteration of policy implementations by electoral and extra–electoral contestations, and the opportunities and strategies for housing activism in each context. We find that political contestations have enabled the construction …
Democracy in the Globalizing Indian City
Transformations under way in Indian cities have begun to alter the opportunities for democratic participation among the urban poor. Highlighting efforts to promote globally oriented urban developments in Mumbai, this article examines the state's engagement with groups directly impacted by these efforts. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with key stakeholders in the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), the article traces the character …
Exposing the Zenana
This paper explores a group of photographic portraits taken by the Jaipur maharaja Ram Singh II of female inhabitants of his zenana. These largely unexplored portraits of upper-class Rajput women who lived in purdah inhabit a peculiar intermediate zone between orientalist ‘harem’ photography and Victorian studio portraiture, upsetting our expectations of both. In order to elucidate the unique character of these portraits, this paper sets them wit…
The Politics of Government Expenditures in Tanzania, 1999-2007
What allocation strategy do hegemonic party regimes pursue in order to increase their level of electoral support? Although the literature has established that targeting resources to marginally supportive districts is the most effective distributive strategy for competitive democracies, it has not been possible to make a clear prediction about the best strategy for hegemonic party regimes. This article seeks to address this puzzle by examining the…
Demolition and Dispossession
One-Man Handled
This article considers the fractured nature of state power in contemporary Mumbai. Based on a case study of the ongoing Dharavi Redevelopment Project, a 2-billion US dollar initiative to redevelop Mumbai's most infamous 'slum' settlement as a mixed-use, mixed-income township, it details the new state strategies emerging to support urban development efforts in India today. Identifying the structural weaknesses that have traditionally hindered deve…
Street Corner Secrets
Insecurity as confinement
A growing literature on contested urban politics has revealed the political agency of seemingly marginal urban residents, including those experiencing the threat of eviction. Yet with much of this work highlighting single instances of successful resistance, the agency of informal urbanites can be overstated and much of what is understood as resistance may actually be confinement. This article addresses this issue by situating an ethnographic anal…
Resilient Growth
Academic and policy literatures on urban climate resilience tend to emphasize 'good planning' as the primary means for addressing the growing risk of flooding in Asia's coastal megacities. Cities have come to rely on disaster and climate resilience plans to future-proof their landscapes and protect vulnerable populations. Yet while data is collected, models are built and plans are drafted, environmentally destructive development practices continu…
Toward a Global Urban Sociology
Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from the Northern, particularly American, cities on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them in terms of a standard urban vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way of seeing. We need a vocabulary that is able to accommodate their different urban experience. This special issue contributes to the work of building that vocabulary. We sele…
Evictions
In This Issue
In this Issue
At the start of 2022, the newest peaks of COVID cases associated with the Omicron variant remind us that the pandemic is far from over and the challenges we face remain significant. From climate disasters and the imperatives of rapid decarbonization, to ethno-racial marginalization and the displacement of the world's most vulnerable populations, the complex challenges facing humanity and the planet require political will, radical imagination, and…
Historicising Housing Rights
This article traces the historical roots of contemporary housing struggles in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata, emphasising the long-term impacts of post-Partition refugee resettlement. Analysing Partition as a ‘critical event’, we discuss the distinct ways in which local administrators, political leaders and city residents responded to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees, traumatised, impoverished and made homeless by Partition. As they re…
Grounding urban production
Mumbai's slum redevelopment projects have emerged as key sites for financial investment. Yet, while residents' claims-making has shaped the manner in which slum lands have been converted into financial investments, their interests and actions have rarely been viewed as part of the financialization processes. This paper situates local residents and developers in the networks of intermediaries increasingly used to study housing financialization. Ba…
Spatializing stigma-power
In disadvantaged neighborhoods such as informal settlements (or “slums” in the Indian context), infrastructural deficits and social conditions have been associated with residents’ poor mental health. Within social determinants of health framework, spatial stigma, or negative portrayal and stereotyping of particular neighborhoods, has been identified as a contributor to health deficits, but remains under-examined in public health research and may …
No One Will Let Her Live
How do poor, chronically vulnerable women living in Delhi's informal settlements negotiate their survival and well-being? In No One Will Let Her Live, medical anthropologist Claire Snell-Rood offer
Delivery as Dispossession
Reflections on Critical Urban Studies in Perilous Times
The real estate turn in the slum
This article contributes to scholarship on Asia’s “real estate turn” through a comparison of in situ “slum redevelopment” programs underway in Delhi and Mumbai that reveals the institutional underpinnings and character of state involvement in each city. Comparative research on state-led financialization in Asia, has typically tended to treat China as the paradigmatic case, with its centralized land regimes and relatively autonomous state land man…
Bringing nationalism into global urban studies
This critical commentary investigates the resurgence of nationalist politics through a global urban studies lens, arguing that cities are critical arenas in which contemporary nationalist projects are enacted, negotiated and contested. While scholarship on nationalism, geopolitics and international relations remains largely state-centric, global urban studies has tended to treat cities as denationalised nodes embedded in transnational networks of…
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