Alexandre Apsan Frediani
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 126219 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alexandre Apsan Frediani |
| PRENOMES | Alexandre Apsan |
| SOBRENOME | Frediani |
| ASSINATURA | FREDIANI A A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8574-3599 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Value Chain of Building Materials in Informal Settlements
The access to building materials in informal settlements impacts housing resilience and sustainability. This article presents research conducted with Slum Dwellers International’s (SDI) affiliates in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Harare, Zimbabwe, exploring the governance conditions that enable or constrain the value chain of building materials, and how these conditions shape access to more affordable, resilient and sustainable housing. Through a c…
“Emancipatory Circuits of Knowledge” for Urban Equality
Feminist, Southern, and decolonial thinkers have long argued that epistemological questions about how knowledge is produced and whose knowledge is valued and actioned are crucial in addressing inequalities, and a key challenge for planning. This collaborative article interrogates how knowledge is mobilised in urban planning and practice, discussing three experiences which have actively centred often-excluded voices, as a way of disrupting knowled…
Building University Capabilities to Respond to Climate Change Through Participatory Action Research
This paper aims to explore how the principles of participatory action research (PAR) articulate with questions of climate justice. Drawing on three qualitative case studies in Brazil, Fiji and Kenya, the paper explores university institutional capabilities, asking how the principles of mobilising PAR to support transformative outcomes can further climate justice. The paper argues that for participatory action research to become a pathway to build…
The “slow anatomy of change”
This paper examines the dominant knowledge paradigms that have underpinned planning over time in Freetown, Sierra Leone and their implications for urban equality. Looking at the history of the informal settlement upgrading agenda, it presents this analysis through a historical mapping, outlining the knowledge paradigms that have informed planning approaches from the colonial era to the present day. It then outlines three strategic moments over th…
Situated perspectives on the city
This article explores the relationship between design methodologies and the scaling of participation in cities. The article recognizes that the scaling of community-led informal settlement upgrading is a central concern in the broader debate on scaling participation, and it interrogates the potential contribution of design methodologies in connecting localized, community-led upgrading initiatives outwards and upwards. We discuss these ideas by dr…
Agency and Democracy in Development Ethics
The Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation
This book focuses on human development and development aid through the lens of the capability approach. The capability approach is applied to case studies and fieldwork to show its practical uses in poverty aid, disability aid, intervention, and international and regional development
Knowledge translation in global urban agendas
Insurgent Regeneration
The city center of São Paulo, Brazil, has increasingly become a key site for local housing movements to challenge the rules and practices of differentiated citizenship in urban Brazil. This is in line with Sassen’s analysis arguing that the last two decades have seen an increasingly urban articulation of global struggles, and a growing use of urban space to make political claims. Organized vacant buildings and occupations led by social movements …
Institutionalization and Depoliticization of the Right to the City
The right to the city, a concept previously associated with radical social movements, has been accepted by several governments and has inspired new public policies. However, some authors see this process of institutionalization as involving a loss of a significant part of the radical origins of the concept. This article approaches this process and the new opportunities and limitations it may entail for social movement organizations with a more ra…
Can participatory mapping activate spatial and political practices? Mapping popular resistance and dwelling practices in Bogotá eastern hills
Within the wider ongoing debate of P articipatory A ction R esearch, this paper interrogates the capacity of participatory mapping not just as a means to tap into plural knowledges over and emanating from specific geographies but rather to disrupt exclusionary constructions of space and place and the reproduction of the governing relationships that cause inequality. Focusing on a participatory mapping experience undertaken by the authors in colla…
Insurgent citizenship practices
The notion of 'insurgent citizenship' has emerged as a critical concept to highlight the insufficiencies of the modernist liberal citizenship project. Referring to the 'everyday practices' of disenfranchised communities, it holds particular resonance in the urban context, and represents a range of formal and informal practices employed to claim for missing entitlements. Nevertheless, this notion is imbued with a certain ambiguity, and insurgent p…
Approaching Development Projects from a Human Development and Capability Perspective
textabstractThis paper discusses the relevance of the human development and capability approach for development project planning, management and evaluation. With reference to the set of five other studies that it introduces, the paper suggests in which areas insights from human development and capability thinking offer advances and in which areas such thinking needs to link with and be complemented or corrected by thinking from other sources and …
Farmers, not gardeners
Sites of urban agriculture are often contested urban open spaces. In the current dominant ideal of the ‘competitive’ and ‘global’ city, little recognition is given to the potential benefits of urban agriculture, beyond beautification, subsistence or therapeutic purposes. In this context, urban agriculture is often viewed as an activity performed by ‘gardeners’, either contributing to individual well-being or reducing the costs of maintenance of p…
Gender, difference and urban change
This article examines the impacts of urban change on the well-being of women and men, and girls and boys living in cities, and explores how gender intersects with other social relations to differentiate these impacts. It then considers the implications of intersectionality for organizations aiming to promote the interests of specific social groups (such as women or people with disabilities) vis à vis urban change by looking at the experience of L…
Urban upgrading interventions and engaging residents in fuzzy management
Sen's Capability Approach as a framework to the practice of development
Amartya Sen's Capability Approach is increasingly influential in the literature of development economics. It has contributed to development discourse by strengthening the multidimensional approach to poverty analysis and stressing the importance of focusing on agency and empowerment. Nevertheless, the Capability Approach has not yet been applied comprehensively beyond development economics. This article assesses the contribution of the Capability…
Amartya Sen, the World Bank, and the Redress of Urban Poverty
While there is some suggestion of a re‐orientation in the World Bank's income‐cantered conceptualization of poverty to one based on Amartya Sen's concept of ‘development as freedom’, it is hard to uncover definitive evidence of such a re‐orientation from a study of the Bank's urban programmes in Brazil. This paper attempts an application of Sen's capability approach to the problem of improving the urban quality of life, and contrasts it with the …
Sen's Capability Approach as a framework to the practice of development
Amartya Sen's Capability Approach is increasingly influential in the literature of development economics. It has contributed to development discourse by strengthening the multidimensional approach to poverty analysis and stressing the importance of focusing on agency and empowerment. Nevertheless, the Capability Approach has not yet been applied comprehensively beyond development economics. This article assesses the contribution of the Capability…
Approaching Development Projects from a Human Development and Capability Perspective
textabstractThis paper discusses the relevance of the human development and capability approach for development project planning, management and evaluation. With reference to the set of five other studies that it introduces, the paper suggests in which areas insights from human development and capability thinking offer advances and in which areas such thinking needs to link with and be complemented or corrected by thinking from other sources and …
Institutionalization and Depoliticization of the Right to the City
The right to the city, a concept previously associated with radical social movements, has been accepted by several governments and has inspired new public policies. However, some authors see this process of institutionalization as involving a loss of a significant part of the radical origins of the concept. This article approaches this process and the new opportunities and limitations it may entail for social movement organizations with a more ra…
Knowledge translation in global urban agendas
Insurgent citizenship practices
The notion of 'insurgent citizenship' has emerged as a critical concept to highlight the insufficiencies of the modernist liberal citizenship project. Referring to the 'everyday practices' of disenfranchised communities, it holds particular resonance in the urban context, and represents a range of formal and informal practices employed to claim for missing entitlements. Nevertheless, this notion is imbued with a certain ambiguity, and insurgent p…
Gender, difference and urban change
This article examines the impacts of urban change on the well-being of women and men, and girls and boys living in cities, and explores how gender intersects with other social relations to differentiate these impacts. It then considers the implications of intersectionality for organizations aiming to promote the interests of specific social groups (such as women or people with disabilities) vis à vis urban change by looking at the experience of L…
Farmers, not gardeners
Sites of urban agriculture are often contested urban open spaces. In the current dominant ideal of the ‘competitive’ and ‘global’ city, little recognition is given to the potential benefits of urban agriculture, beyond beautification, subsistence or therapeutic purposes. In this context, urban agriculture is often viewed as an activity performed by ‘gardeners’, either contributing to individual well-being or reducing the costs of maintenance of p…
Insurgent Regeneration
The city center of São Paulo, Brazil, has increasingly become a key site for local housing movements to challenge the rules and practices of differentiated citizenship in urban Brazil. This is in line with Sassen’s analysis arguing that the last two decades have seen an increasingly urban articulation of global struggles, and a growing use of urban space to make political claims. Organized vacant buildings and occupations led by social movements …
The “slow anatomy of change”
This paper examines the dominant knowledge paradigms that have underpinned planning over time in Freetown, Sierra Leone and their implications for urban equality. Looking at the history of the informal settlement upgrading agenda, it presents this analysis through a historical mapping, outlining the knowledge paradigms that have informed planning approaches from the colonial era to the present day. It then outlines three strategic moments over th…
Situated perspectives on the city
This article explores the relationship between design methodologies and the scaling of participation in cities. The article recognizes that the scaling of community-led informal settlement upgrading is a central concern in the broader debate on scaling participation, and it interrogates the potential contribution of design methodologies in connecting localized, community-led upgrading initiatives outwards and upwards. We discuss these ideas by dr…
Can participatory mapping activate spatial and political practices? Mapping popular resistance and dwelling practices in Bogotá eastern hills
Within the wider ongoing debate of P articipatory A ction R esearch, this paper interrogates the capacity of participatory mapping not just as a means to tap into plural knowledges over and emanating from specific geographies but rather to disrupt exclusionary constructions of space and place and the reproduction of the governing relationships that cause inequality. Focusing on a participatory mapping experience undertaken by the authors in colla…
Urban upgrading interventions and engaging residents in fuzzy management
Amartya Sen, the World Bank, and the Redress of Urban Poverty
While there is some suggestion of a re‐orientation in the World Bank's income‐cantered conceptualization of poverty to one based on Amartya Sen's concept of ‘development as freedom’, it is hard to uncover definitive evidence of such a re‐orientation from a study of the Bank's urban programmes in Brazil. This paper attempts an application of Sen's capability approach to the problem of improving the urban quality of life, and contrasts it with the …
Urban upgrading interventions and engaging residents in fuzzy management
Sen's Capability Approach as a framework to the practice of development
Amartya Sen's Capability Approach is increasingly influential in the literature of development economics. It has contributed to development discourse by strengthening the multidimensional approach to poverty analysis and stressing the importance of focusing on agency and empowerment. Nevertheless, the Capability Approach has not yet been applied comprehensively beyond development economics. This article assesses the contribution of the Capability…
Gender, difference and urban change
This article examines the impacts of urban change on the well-being of women and men, and girls and boys living in cities, and explores how gender intersects with other social relations to differentiate these impacts. It then considers the implications of intersectionality for organizations aiming to promote the interests of specific social groups (such as women or people with disabilities) vis à vis urban change by looking at the experience of L…
Farmers, not gardeners
Sites of urban agriculture are often contested urban open spaces. In the current dominant ideal of the ‘competitive’ and ‘global’ city, little recognition is given to the potential benefits of urban agriculture, beyond beautification, subsistence or therapeutic purposes. In this context, urban agriculture is often viewed as an activity performed by ‘gardeners’, either contributing to individual well-being or reducing the costs of maintenance of p…
Insurgent citizenship practices
The notion of 'insurgent citizenship' has emerged as a critical concept to highlight the insufficiencies of the modernist liberal citizenship project. Referring to the 'everyday practices' of disenfranchised communities, it holds particular resonance in the urban context, and represents a range of formal and informal practices employed to claim for missing entitlements. Nevertheless, this notion is imbued with a certain ambiguity, and insurgent p…
Approaching Development Projects from a Human Development and Capability Perspective
textabstractThis paper discusses the relevance of the human development and capability approach for development project planning, management and evaluation. With reference to the set of five other studies that it introduces, the paper suggests in which areas insights from human development and capability thinking offer advances and in which areas such thinking needs to link with and be complemented or corrected by thinking from other sources and …
Can participatory mapping activate spatial and political practices? Mapping popular resistance and dwelling practices in Bogotá eastern hills
Within the wider ongoing debate of P articipatory A ction R esearch, this paper interrogates the capacity of participatory mapping not just as a means to tap into plural knowledges over and emanating from specific geographies but rather to disrupt exclusionary constructions of space and place and the reproduction of the governing relationships that cause inequality. Focusing on a participatory mapping experience undertaken by the authors in colla…
Insurgent Regeneration
The city center of São Paulo, Brazil, has increasingly become a key site for local housing movements to challenge the rules and practices of differentiated citizenship in urban Brazil. This is in line with Sassen’s analysis arguing that the last two decades have seen an increasingly urban articulation of global struggles, and a growing use of urban space to make political claims. Organized vacant buildings and occupations led by social movements …
Institutionalization and Depoliticization of the Right to the City
The right to the city, a concept previously associated with radical social movements, has been accepted by several governments and has inspired new public policies. However, some authors see this process of institutionalization as involving a loss of a significant part of the radical origins of the concept. This article approaches this process and the new opportunities and limitations it may entail for social movement organizations with a more ra…
Agency and Democracy in Development Ethics
The Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation
This book focuses on human development and development aid through the lens of the capability approach. The capability approach is applied to case studies and fieldwork to show its practical uses in poverty aid, disability aid, intervention, and international and regional development
Knowledge translation in global urban agendas
Situated perspectives on the city
This article explores the relationship between design methodologies and the scaling of participation in cities. The article recognizes that the scaling of community-led informal settlement upgrading is a central concern in the broader debate on scaling participation, and it interrogates the potential contribution of design methodologies in connecting localized, community-led upgrading initiatives outwards and upwards. We discuss these ideas by dr…
“Emancipatory Circuits of Knowledge” for Urban Equality
Feminist, Southern, and decolonial thinkers have long argued that epistemological questions about how knowledge is produced and whose knowledge is valued and actioned are crucial in addressing inequalities, and a key challenge for planning. This collaborative article interrogates how knowledge is mobilised in urban planning and practice, discussing three experiences which have actively centred often-excluded voices, as a way of disrupting knowled…
Building University Capabilities to Respond to Climate Change Through Participatory Action Research
This paper aims to explore how the principles of participatory action research (PAR) articulate with questions of climate justice. Drawing on three qualitative case studies in Brazil, Fiji and Kenya, the paper explores university institutional capabilities, asking how the principles of mobilising PAR to support transformative outcomes can further climate justice. The paper argues that for participatory action research to become a pathway to build…
The “slow anatomy of change”
This paper examines the dominant knowledge paradigms that have underpinned planning over time in Freetown, Sierra Leone and their implications for urban equality. Looking at the history of the informal settlement upgrading agenda, it presents this analysis through a historical mapping, outlining the knowledge paradigms that have informed planning approaches from the colonial era to the present day. It then outlines three strategic moments over th…
The Value Chain of Building Materials in Informal Settlements
The access to building materials in informal settlements impacts housing resilience and sustainability. This article presents research conducted with Slum Dwellers International’s (SDI) affiliates in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Harare, Zimbabwe, exploring the governance conditions that enable or constrain the value chain of building materials, and how these conditions shape access to more affordable, resilient and sustainable housing. Through a c…
Political science (16 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Urban Planning and Governance (9 obras) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (8 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Economic growth (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Geography (5 obras)