Regulation of space in the contemporary postcolonial Pacific city

Port Moresby and Suva

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12582467
AutoresJ Connell (0000-0003-0945-0684, The University of Sydney, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume44
Fascículo3
Páginas243-257
Data de publicação2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAsia Pacific Viewpoint (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1360-7456 • E-ISSN: 1467-8373
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8373.2003.00213.x
OpenAlexW2102998778
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas16

National development problems in the weak states of Papua New Guinea and Fiji have resulted in external intervention. However neo‐liberal development strategies have not resolved development problems and may have further weakened state structures. In both capital cities rural‐urban migration, rising urban unemployment, and the expansion of squatter settlements and the informal sector have all continued in recent years. The numbers of beggars, street kids and prostitutes have increased, as has domestic violence and crime. Governments have opposed all these trends, by regulation and intolerance, violence, routine repression and eviction, rather than by pro‐poor policies. Settlers, prostitutes, beggars, street kids and market vendors have been evicted and moved on, on the ideological premise that that their true place is in rural areas, and that their urban presence challenges and threatens notions of urban order. Moral regulation, social exclusion and moral panic have divided ‘good citizens’ from marginal and possibly criminal others, intensifying social divisions within the cities. Sustainable urban development has proved difficult to achieve

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Eviction · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Poverty · Right to the city · Slum · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics