The urban logic of dispossession and nomadism in neoliberal Bangladesh

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6429239
AutoresLipon Mondal (0000-0002-3163-3092, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen66
Número2
Páginas215-234
Fecha de publicación2024-07-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Comparative Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7152 • E-ISSN: 1568-5187
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00207152241261973
OpenAlexW4401028304
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas29

Through quantitative and qualitative evidence collected in 2017–2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, this article investigates the detrimental impact of coercive evictions on urban nomads . It conceptualizes urban nomads as an ever-growing army of dispossessed who are forced to frequently move from one place to another within a city for shelter and work. They have few belongings and little social support and are culturally and politically marginalized. Forced evictions dispossess them in co-constitutive economic, social, cultural, and political ways, which relate to Pierre Bourdieu’s four types of capital. The article argues that coercive evictions produce and reproduce a nomadic urban community that experiences various kinds of dispossession after losing control over different forms of capital

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