Contests over value
From the informal to the popular
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10860429 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abdoumaliq Simone (0000-0002-1630-1997, Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 616-619 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0042098018810604 |
| OpenAlex | W2905889565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 1 |
Looking across this collection, I reflect first, that informality is only one way of paying attention to a stabilisation of processes that may not be the result of what it is understood to be. And second, paying attention in this way is to point to its partiality in its incompleteness and to constrain its availability to specific functions and agendas. As the papers show, informality is intensely situated in the specifics of all kinds of articulations and imbrications in many other processes. One of the most useful is to constantly reopen the questioning of value and to see these as an organising contestation of the social production and distribution of wealth. It provides an insight into the agency of subject creation that people retain in order to engage in accumulation of wealth, even if the expectations and calculations of what this is worth must constantly be recalibrated. In the sense that it is useful, it may be in pointing to a role of subject creation that entails the vast networks of incalculability that underlie all contemporary computation
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Distribution (mathematics · Economics · Epistemology · Microeconomics · Order (exchange · Point (geometry · Positive economics · Production (economics · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Subject (documents · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Genealogy of the gray spaces discourse in contemporary urban planning
Owning modernity
Domesticated Debt
The “right to the city centre”
Looking for the obvious
The Practice of Informality
Finance, infrastructure and urban capital
Precarious power’
Fractured fiscal authority and fragmented infrastructures
Made in Kyrgyzstan is gold!’ the rise of the informal Kyrgyzstani apparel industry
Transcending (in)formal urbanism
Plug-in urbanism
Cohabiting commerce in a transport hub
Revolutionary debtscapes
Sister Communities
Informality as the Ur-Form of Urbanity
| Citations per year | 2.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |