Colin Marx
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Marx |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Marx |
| SIGNATURE | MARX C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8502-0390 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Multiple interests in urban land: Disaster-induced land resettlement politics in Kampala
One of the actions that many local authorities take in to reduce exposure of informal settlements to disaster risks and the impacts of climate change is to move people out of high-risk areas. This is usually enacted through resettlement, relocation or evictions. This article argues that local authorities recognizing and validating multiple interests in land offers an innovative advantage to cities in equitably responding to risks, and adapting to…
Transcending (in)formal urbanism
In this introduction to the special issue ‘Transcending (in)formal urbanism’ we outline the important place that informal urbanism has acquired in urban theorising, and an agenda to further this standing towards an even more explicit role in defining how we research cities. We note how informality has frequently been perceived as the formal’s ‘other’ implying a necessary ‘othering’ of informality that creates dualisms between formal and informal,…
Knowing urban informalities
How do Anglophone urban scholars know urban informalities? This article reviews three dominant ways of knowing urban informality, noting that, despite the profoundly rich insights they each provide, two critiques of the overall concept endure. These are that the concept is often imprecise, and that the contribution to knowing ‘the urban’ more generally remains clearly circumscribed to the ‘urban non-west’. In our view, these limitations curtail t…
Extending the analysis of urban land conflict: An example from Johannesburg
Social conflict can be mobilised to achieve progressive and/or regressive change. Focusing on urban land conflicts that relate to property rights, I examine how commonly held understandings of this phenomenon may risk glossing over conflict that emerges because of the property rights themselves, as well as legitimating only certain types of conflict as worthy of activism and scholarly engagement. Using the example of Thokoza, a largely residentia…
The city in urban poverty
Circular Migration: A View from Destination Households in Two Urban Informal Settlements in South Africa
This article analyses dual household membership and the return intentions of migrants, using data collected from migrants living in two informal settlements in South Africa. While dual household membership is very common among the migrants we surveyed, less than half of these migrants wanted to return to their other household in the future. We explore the correlates of dual household membership and intended return migration and we consider the im…
Locating the global governance of HIV and Aids: Exploring the geographies of transnational advocacy networks
Long-Term City Visioning and the Redistribution of Economic Infrastructure: The redistribution of economic infrastructure in Durban
This article notes how an assumption that poor people cannot contribute to economic growth is based on a selective and partial view of their economic agency. I establish the merit of asking questions about this assumption by demonstrating the negative effects it has on the possibilities for equitably distributing urban economic infrastructure. While the need for redistributing social infrastructure is well established, the redistribution of econo…
Conceptualising the potential of informal land markets to reduce urban poverty
There is a strong argument that the formalisation of informal land markets can reduce urban poverty. In this view, the potential to reduce poverty lies in the ability of the state to introduce appropriate forms of formality and the intrinsic abilities of markets to generate wealth. Pointing to evidence that the results of formalisation initiatives have been less impressive in practice, I argue that one of the reasons is a failure to analyse infor…
Transcending (in)formal urbanism
In this introduction to the special issue ‘Transcending (in)formal urbanism’ we outline the important place that informal urbanism has acquired in urban theorising, and an agenda to further this standing towards an even more explicit role in defining how we research cities. We note how informality has frequently been perceived as the formal’s ‘other’ implying a necessary ‘othering’ of informality that creates dualisms between formal and informal,…
Knowing urban informalities
How do Anglophone urban scholars know urban informalities? This article reviews three dominant ways of knowing urban informality, noting that, despite the profoundly rich insights they each provide, two critiques of the overall concept endure. These are that the concept is often imprecise, and that the contribution to knowing ‘the urban’ more generally remains clearly circumscribed to the ‘urban non-west’. In our view, these limitations curtail t…
Conceptualising the potential of informal land markets to reduce urban poverty
There is a strong argument that the formalisation of informal land markets can reduce urban poverty. In this view, the potential to reduce poverty lies in the ability of the state to introduce appropriate forms of formality and the intrinsic abilities of markets to generate wealth. Pointing to evidence that the results of formalisation initiatives have been less impressive in practice, I argue that one of the reasons is a failure to analyse infor…
Extending the analysis of urban land conflict: An example from Johannesburg
Social conflict can be mobilised to achieve progressive and/or regressive change. Focusing on urban land conflicts that relate to property rights, I examine how commonly held understandings of this phenomenon may risk glossing over conflict that emerges because of the property rights themselves, as well as legitimating only certain types of conflict as worthy of activism and scholarly engagement. Using the example of Thokoza, a largely residentia…
Locating the global governance of HIV and Aids: Exploring the geographies of transnational advocacy networks
Long-Term City Visioning and the Redistribution of Economic Infrastructure: The redistribution of economic infrastructure in Durban
This article notes how an assumption that poor people cannot contribute to economic growth is based on a selective and partial view of their economic agency. I establish the merit of asking questions about this assumption by demonstrating the negative effects it has on the possibilities for equitably distributing urban economic infrastructure. While the need for redistributing social infrastructure is well established, the redistribution of econo…
Conceptualising the potential of informal land markets to reduce urban poverty
There is a strong argument that the formalisation of informal land markets can reduce urban poverty. In this view, the potential to reduce poverty lies in the ability of the state to introduce appropriate forms of formality and the intrinsic abilities of markets to generate wealth. Pointing to evidence that the results of formalisation initiatives have been less impressive in practice, I argue that one of the reasons is a failure to analyse infor…
Long-Term City Visioning and the Redistribution of Economic Infrastructure: The redistribution of economic infrastructure in Durban
This article notes how an assumption that poor people cannot contribute to economic growth is based on a selective and partial view of their economic agency. I establish the merit of asking questions about this assumption by demonstrating the negative effects it has on the possibilities for equitably distributing urban economic infrastructure. While the need for redistributing social infrastructure is well established, the redistribution of econo…
Locating the global governance of HIV and Aids: Exploring the geographies of transnational advocacy networks
Circular Migration: A View from Destination Households in Two Urban Informal Settlements in South Africa
This article analyses dual household membership and the return intentions of migrants, using data collected from migrants living in two informal settlements in South Africa. While dual household membership is very common among the migrants we surveyed, less than half of these migrants wanted to return to their other household in the future. We explore the correlates of dual household membership and intended return migration and we consider the im…
The city in urban poverty
Extending the analysis of urban land conflict: An example from Johannesburg
Social conflict can be mobilised to achieve progressive and/or regressive change. Focusing on urban land conflicts that relate to property rights, I examine how commonly held understandings of this phenomenon may risk glossing over conflict that emerges because of the property rights themselves, as well as legitimating only certain types of conflict as worthy of activism and scholarly engagement. Using the example of Thokoza, a largely residentia…
Transcending (in)formal urbanism
In this introduction to the special issue ‘Transcending (in)formal urbanism’ we outline the important place that informal urbanism has acquired in urban theorising, and an agenda to further this standing towards an even more explicit role in defining how we research cities. We note how informality has frequently been perceived as the formal’s ‘other’ implying a necessary ‘othering’ of informality that creates dualisms between formal and informal,…
Knowing urban informalities
How do Anglophone urban scholars know urban informalities? This article reviews three dominant ways of knowing urban informality, noting that, despite the profoundly rich insights they each provide, two critiques of the overall concept endure. These are that the concept is often imprecise, and that the contribution to knowing ‘the urban’ more generally remains clearly circumscribed to the ‘urban non-west’. In our view, these limitations curtail t…
Multiple interests in urban land: Disaster-induced land resettlement politics in Kampala
One of the actions that many local authorities take in to reduce exposure of informal settlements to disaster risks and the impacts of climate change is to move people out of high-risk areas. This is usually enacted through resettlement, relocation or evictions. This article argues that local authorities recognizing and validating multiple interests in land offers an innovative advantage to cities in equitably responding to risks, and adapting to…
Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)