Residency Counts and Housing Rights
Conflicting Enactments of Property in Lima's Central Margins
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2226477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristin Skrabut (0009-0000-3636-8999, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 691-715 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/700758 |
| OpenAlex | W2904485623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 50 |
In a shantytown in Lima, who counts as a resident depends on who is counting. Drawing on 21 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a Peruvian "self-help" housing community, I show how censuses and surveys are woven into residency determinations and negotiations over property rights. In these contexts, "residency" is not a self-evident status but rather a complex performance that involves possessing the right kind of need, participating in development activities, accumulating documents, and being legible to myriad political and personalistic "state-like" entities. Meanwhile, conflicts over inadequate residency performances generate violence, insecurity, and confusion about who "the community" is and who is entitled to represent it. I argue that viewing residency as a contested performance that mediates and remakes long-standing inequalities can improve anthropological interpretations of the sprawling and pockmarked cities of the Global South and the dynamics of urban citizenship that produce them
Citizenship · Confusion · Epistemology · Ethnography · Inequality · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy · Property rights · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |