Ann Varley
Biographic Data
| ID | 191272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Varley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Varley |
| SIGNATURE | VARLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1692-6337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 734 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The Impact of Mexico'sland Reform on Periurban Housing Production
Changes to Mexico's Constitution in the 1990s marked the end of agrarian reform and the Revolutionary land regime which had allowed beneficiaries to work but not to sell their land. New legislation allowed individual parcels of ejido land to be converted into private property. Many observers link this 'privatization' with a transformation of the periurban landscape resulting from private developers' construction of mass 'social housing' developme…
Preface Urban Informality in Latin America in Global Perspective
Postcolonialising Informality
Urban informality has been the subject of renewed attention in recent years, with a resurgence of interest from architecture and planning. A focus on informality has however been criticised as reviving colonial hierarchies, characterising entire cities in terms of lack and rendering them perpetually inferior to Western cities. The call to postcolonialise urban studies has been answered by an emerging literature which has neglected Latin America. …
Symbolism and Ritual in a One-Party Regime
Modest Expectations
This article examines gender and property in Guadalajara, Mexico, in the light of debates that oppose formal title to the social embeddedness of rights in customary law and assert that titling is bad for women. The article focuses on urban homes, private property, and civil law but finds that qualities regarded as characterizing customary property relations also shape popular understandings of property in urban Mexico. Discussion groups and socia…
Parameters in Television Captioning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults
Caption rate and text reduction are factors that appear to affect the comprehension of captions by people who are deaf or hard of hearing. These 2 factors are confounded in everyday captioning; rate (in words per minute) is slowed by text reduction. In this study, caption rate and text reduction were manipulated independently in 2 experiments to assess any differential effects and possible benefits for comprehension by deaf and hard-of-hearing ad…
A Place like This? Stories of Dementia, Home, and the Self
The connections between home and the self have been the subject of debate in recent years. As a metaphor for a bounded and stable identity, the ideal of home is regarded as dangerous by theorists who oppose a politics based on nostalgic appeals to unity and privilege. Home is criticised as an exclusionary and depoliticising space. Scholars such as Iris Marion Young and Geraldine Pratt argue, however, that we should be wary of rejecting home, sinc…
Gender and Property Formalization
Geographies of home
Older women's living arrangements and family relationships in urban Mexico
Older women's living arrangements and family relationships in urban Mexico
Private or public
Hernando de Soto's book The mystery of capital has renewed debate about illegality in low-income housing in Latin America, Asia and Africa. De Soto and others argue that property titles provide the poor with collateral for loans to improve their housing or set up a business. Critics argue that incorporation into the formal market will displace the original inhabitants. In this article I analyse these debates about legalization as expressions of t…
Intact or in tatters? Family care of older women and men in urban Mexico
This article asks how family relationships affect the living conditions of low-income elderly people in urban Mexico. The existence of so many elderly women living alone in the country is at odds with cultural beliefs portraying mothers as the archetypal recipients of family charity. It is evident that there is little state provision of accommodation for the elderly, forcing older people to rely on their families for care. Living with family is u…
Exiled to the Home
De lo privado a lo público
Los asentamientos populares de las ciudades latinoamericanas, asiáticas y africanas se caracterizan por la ilegalidad de la tenencia de la tierra. La legalización de la tenencia es un elemento básico para el mejoramiento urbano en tales áreas. Este artículo tiene dos objetivos. El primero es explorar las consecuencias de la legalización o "regularización" de los asentamientos ilegales sobre la seguridad de tenencia de las mujeres. La segunda es e…
A New Model of Urban Land Regularisation in Mexico? The Role of Opposition Government
The Reconquest of the Historic Centre
This is one of the first studies evaluating the experience of gentrification in a developing country. The conservation of the historic centre of Puebla, Mexico, is analysed with particular attention to the uses to which renovated properties are put and the nature and motivations of the agents involved. Gentrification in Puebla constitutes the symbolic reconquest of a space over which the local middle classes feared they had lost moral authority. …
Women heading households
Dolor y alegría
Gender and slum culture in Urban Asia
Transforming state-society relations in Mexico
Journal Article Transforming state-society relations in Mexico: the National Solidarity strategy Get access Transforming state-society relations in Mexico: the National Solidarity strategy. Edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, Ann L. Craigand Jonathan Fox. San Diego, CA: Center for US-Mexican Studies. 1994. 368pp. Pb.: ISBN 1 878367 14 5. Ann Varley Ann Varley 1University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
The Mexican Border Cities
The Contest for the City Centre
The historical centres of a great many cities in Latin America have been subject to conservation policies in the past 20 years (Hardoy and Gutman, 1991). Furthermore, the policies embarked upon in such cities as Cuzco, Mexico City, Salvador and Quito have been legitimised and sanctioned by UNESCO as part of a drive to celebrate a global heritage (Jones, 1994). Initially, these policies sought to restore key civil buildings and monuments in largel…
Clientelismo o tecnocracia? La lógica política de la regularización de la tierra urbana, 1970-1988
Gender and housing
Geographies of home
Postcolonialising Informality
Urban informality has been the subject of renewed attention in recent years, with a resurgence of interest from architecture and planning. A focus on informality has however been criticised as reviving colonial hierarchies, characterising entire cities in terms of lack and rendering them perpetually inferior to Western cities. The call to postcolonialise urban studies has been answered by an emerging literature which has neglected Latin America. …
Private or public
Hernando de Soto's book The mystery of capital has renewed debate about illegality in low-income housing in Latin America, Asia and Africa. De Soto and others argue that property titles provide the poor with collateral for loans to improve their housing or set up a business. Critics argue that incorporation into the formal market will displace the original inhabitants. In this article I analyse these debates about legalization as expressions of t…
A Place like This? Stories of Dementia, Home, and the Self
The connections between home and the self have been the subject of debate in recent years. As a metaphor for a bounded and stable identity, the ideal of home is regarded as dangerous by theorists who oppose a politics based on nostalgic appeals to unity and privilege. Home is criticised as an exclusionary and depoliticising space. Scholars such as Iris Marion Young and Geraldine Pratt argue, however, that we should be wary of rejecting home, sinc…
Women heading households
The Relationship between Tenure Legalization and Housing Improvements
The Reconquest of the Historic Centre
This is one of the first studies evaluating the experience of gentrification in a developing country. The conservation of the historic centre of Puebla, Mexico, is analysed with particular attention to the uses to which renovated properties are put and the nature and motivations of the agents involved. Gentrification in Puebla constitutes the symbolic reconquest of a space over which the local middle classes feared they had lost moral authority. …
Gender and Property Formalization
The Contest for the City Centre
The historical centres of a great many cities in Latin America have been subject to conservation policies in the past 20 years (Hardoy and Gutman, 1991). Furthermore, the policies embarked upon in such cities as Cuzco, Mexico City, Salvador and Quito have been legitimised and sanctioned by UNESCO as part of a drive to celebrate a global heritage (Jones, 1994). Initially, these policies sought to restore key civil buildings and monuments in largel…
Urbanization and Agrarian Law
Exiled to the Home
Renting a home in a third world city
Modest Expectations
This article examines gender and property in Guadalajara, Mexico, in the light of debates that oppose formal title to the social embeddedness of rights in customary law and assert that titling is bad for women. The article focuses on urban homes, private property, and civil law but finds that qualities regarded as characterizing customary property relations also shape popular understandings of property in urban Mexico. Discussion groups and socia…
Older women's living arrangements and family relationships in urban Mexico
Los recursos de la pobreza
El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo analizar las representaciones sociales de la masculinidad en la narrativa de Grand Theft Auto V a través de los tres personajes principales de la historia: Trevor Phillips, Michael de Santa y Franklin Clinton teniendo en cuenta las relaciones existentes con otros sujetos, en donde podrán hacerse evidentes las problemáticas del género. Por lo tanto, la utilización del análisis de las narrati…
The Mexican Landlord
In Mexican cities, somewhere between one-third and one-half of all households rent or share accommodation. Over the years, even though rental housing has been in relative decline, the absolute numbers of tenant households have been increasing. Recently, because home ownership has become increasingly expensive, the Mexican state has been anxious to expand the stock of rental housing. However, its policies do not seem to be directed towards the maj…
Gender and housing
Intact or in tatters? Family care of older women and men in urban Mexico
This article asks how family relationships affect the living conditions of low-income elderly people in urban Mexico. The existence of so many elderly women living alone in the country is at odds with cultural beliefs portraying mothers as the archetypal recipients of family charity. It is evident that there is little state provision of accommodation for the elderly, forcing older people to rely on their families for care. Living with family is u…
Transforming state-society relations in Mexico
Journal Article Transforming state-society relations in Mexico: the National Solidarity strategy Get access Transforming state-society relations in Mexico: the National Solidarity strategy. Edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, Ann L. Craigand Jonathan Fox. San Diego, CA: Center for US-Mexican Studies. 1994. 368pp. Pb.: ISBN 1 878367 14 5. Ann Varley Ann Varley 1University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Clientelismo o tecnocracia? La lógica política de la regularización de la tierra urbana, 1970-1988
Shelter, Settlement and Development
Landlord and Tenant
The Impact of Mexico'sland Reform on Periurban Housing Production
Changes to Mexico's Constitution in the 1990s marked the end of agrarian reform and the Revolutionary land regime which had allowed beneficiaries to work but not to sell their land. New legislation allowed individual parcels of ejido land to be converted into private property. Many observers link this 'privatization' with a transformation of the periurban landscape resulting from private developers' construction of mass 'social housing' developme…
Older women's living arrangements and family relationships in urban Mexico
Mexico City
Urbanization and Agrarian Law
The Relationship between Tenure Legalization and Housing Improvements
Shelter, Settlement and Development
Los recursos de la pobreza
El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo analizar las representaciones sociales de la masculinidad en la narrativa de Grand Theft Auto V a través de los tres personajes principales de la historia: Trevor Phillips, Michael de Santa y Franklin Clinton teniendo en cuenta las relaciones existentes con otros sujetos, en donde podrán hacerse evidentes las problemáticas del género. Por lo tanto, la utilización del análisis de las narrati…
The Mexican Landlord
In Mexican cities, somewhere between one-third and one-half of all households rent or share accommodation. Over the years, even though rental housing has been in relative decline, the absolute numbers of tenant households have been increasing. Recently, because home ownership has become increasingly expensive, the Mexican state has been anxious to expand the stock of rental housing. However, its policies do not seem to be directed towards the maj…
Renting a home in a third world city
Disasters
Mexico City
Landlord and Tenant
Landlord and Tenant
Gender and housing
Landlord and Tenant
Transforming state-society relations in Mexico
Journal Article Transforming state-society relations in Mexico: the National Solidarity strategy Get access Transforming state-society relations in Mexico: the National Solidarity strategy. Edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, Ann L. Craigand Jonathan Fox. San Diego, CA: Center for US-Mexican Studies. 1994. 368pp. Pb.: ISBN 1 878367 14 5. Ann Varley Ann Varley 1University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
The Mexican Border Cities
The Contest for the City Centre
The historical centres of a great many cities in Latin America have been subject to conservation policies in the past 20 years (Hardoy and Gutman, 1991). Furthermore, the policies embarked upon in such cities as Cuzco, Mexico City, Salvador and Quito have been legitimised and sanctioned by UNESCO as part of a drive to celebrate a global heritage (Jones, 1994). Initially, these policies sought to restore key civil buildings and monuments in largel…
Clientelismo o tecnocracia? La lógica política de la regularización de la tierra urbana, 1970-1988
Dolor y alegría
Gender and slum culture in Urban Asia
Women heading households
A New Model of Urban Land Regularisation in Mexico? The Role of Opposition Government
The Reconquest of the Historic Centre
This is one of the first studies evaluating the experience of gentrification in a developing country. The conservation of the historic centre of Puebla, Mexico, is analysed with particular attention to the uses to which renovated properties are put and the nature and motivations of the agents involved. Gentrification in Puebla constitutes the symbolic reconquest of a space over which the local middle classes feared they had lost moral authority. …
Intact or in tatters? Family care of older women and men in urban Mexico
This article asks how family relationships affect the living conditions of low-income elderly people in urban Mexico. The existence of so many elderly women living alone in the country is at odds with cultural beliefs portraying mothers as the archetypal recipients of family charity. It is evident that there is little state provision of accommodation for the elderly, forcing older people to rely on their families for care. Living with family is u…
Exiled to the Home
De lo privado a lo público
Los asentamientos populares de las ciudades latinoamericanas, asiáticas y africanas se caracterizan por la ilegalidad de la tenencia de la tierra. La legalización de la tenencia es un elemento básico para el mejoramiento urbano en tales áreas. Este artículo tiene dos objetivos. El primero es explorar las consecuencias de la legalización o "regularización" de los asentamientos ilegales sobre la seguridad de tenencia de las mujeres. La segunda es e…
Private or public
Hernando de Soto's book The mystery of capital has renewed debate about illegality in low-income housing in Latin America, Asia and Africa. De Soto and others argue that property titles provide the poor with collateral for loans to improve their housing or set up a business. Critics argue that incorporation into the formal market will displace the original inhabitants. In this article I analyse these debates about legalization as expressions of t…
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