The Slum Multiple
A Cyborg Micro-history of an Informal Settlement in Lisbon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4383526 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eduardo Ascensão (0000-0002-1927-359X, Centro de Estudos Geográficos University of Lisbon Edifício IGOT, Rua Branca Edmée Marques 1600‐276 Lisboa Portugal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 948-964 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.12301 |
| OpenAlex | W2237559440 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article proposes a cyborg reading of the process of informal settlement by internal and postcolonial immigrants in Lisbon's periphery from the 1970s to the present. Cyborg does not stand for a neo-organicist or cybernetic understanding of the informal city but rather for the conjunction of the multiple enactments of city life under conditions of urban informality-in this case the fourfold combination ofhistory/migration;architecture/low-fi technologies;inhabitation/body/memory; andgovernmentality/urban capital. The 40-year event of settlement and inhabitation is presented through an ethnographic micro-history of one neighbourhood in particular, with a strong focus on slum dwellers' life stories, on the details of the artefact-machines they have built, their informal dwellings, and on their social and mental experience of place. Responding to recent calls for multidisciplinary ethnographies of informality, the article brings the specificity of Lisbon's informal settlements-their growth based in postcolonial rather than rural migrations-into current debates on informal urbanisms and geographies of sociotechnical urban assemblages
Archaeology · Civil engineering · Economic growth · Ethnography · Gentrification · Geography · Informal settlements · Mobilities · Slum · Social science · Sociology · Urbanism · Anthropology · Engineering · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Architecture
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |