IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cityxx/v14y2010i4p427-433.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Critical thinking about the Right to the City: Mapping garbage routes

Author

Listed:
  • Sharon M. Meagher

Abstract

Through the examination of two critical analyses of garbage politics, I argue that both can benefit from the insights of a critical urban theory as developed by Marcuse, Brenner and Mayer. At the same time, I argue that bringing garbage into the analysis both underscores the importance of certain key features of critical urban theory—especially its focus on everyday life and the Right to the City as a collective moral rather than legal claim cashed out by individuals while at the same time demonstrating the importance and necessity of including a focus on environmental crises and issues that emerge in the global South.

Suggested Citation

  • Sharon M. Meagher, 2010. "Critical thinking about the Right to the City: Mapping garbage routes," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(4), pages 427-433, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:427-433
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.496209
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.496209
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/13604813.2010.496209?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Peter Marcuse, 2009. "From critical urban theory to the right to the city," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(2-3), pages 185-197, June.
    2. Neil Brenner & Peter Marcuse & Margit Mayer, 2009. "Cities for people, not for profit," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(2-3), pages 176-184, June.
    3. Bob Catterall, 2010. "Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (19) There is no return?," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(4), pages 476-485, August.
    4. David Cunningham, 2009. "Thinking the urban: on recent writings on philosophy and the city," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(4), pages 517-530, December.
    5. Margit Mayer, 2009. "The 'Right to the City’ in the context of shifting mottos of urban social movements," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(2-3), pages 362-374, June.
    6. Bob Catterall, 2009. "Editor's introduction," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(4), pages 466-470, December.
    7. Neil Brenner, 2009. "What is critical urban theory?," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(2-3), pages 198-207, June.
    8. repec:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:1:p:7-20 is not listed on IDEAS
    9. Katharine N. Rankin, 2009. "Critical development studies and the praxis of planning," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(2-3), pages 219-229, June.
    10. Adrian Atkinson, 2009. "Cities after oil (one more time)," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(4), pages 493-498, December.
    11. Peter Marcuse, 2010. "In defense of theory in practice," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(1-2), pages 4-12, February.
    12. repec:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:203-229 is not listed on IDEAS
    13. Martin Woessner, 2009. "Rescuing the 'Right to the City’," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(4), pages 474-475, December.
    14. Marcelo Lopes de Souza, 2009. "Cities for people, not for profit—from a radical‐libertarian and Latin American perspective," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(4), pages 483-492, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Kurt Iveson, 2010. "Some critical reflections on being critical: Reading for deviance, dominance or difference?," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(4), pages 434-441, August.
    2. Eduardo Mendieta, 2010. "The city to come: Critical urban theory as utopian mapping," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(4), pages 442-447, August.
    3. Peter Marcuse, 2010. "In defense of theory in practice," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(1-2), pages 4-12, February.
    4. Morgana G Martins Krieger & Marlei Pozzebon & Lauro Gonzalez, 2021. "When social movements collaborate with the state towards the right to the city: Unveiling compromises and conflicts," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(5), pages 1115-1139, August.
    5. Esin Özdemir & Ayda Eraydin, 2017. "Fragmentation in Urban Movements: The Role of Urban Planning Processes," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(5), pages 727-748, September.
    6. Kafui Attoh, 2017. "Public transportation and the idiocy of urban life," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(1), pages 196-213, January.
    7. Shenjing He, 2012. "Two Waves of Gentrification and Emerging Rights Issues in Guangzhou, China," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 44(12), pages 2817-2833, December.
    8. Sergio Belda-Miquel & Jordi Peris Blanes & Alexandre Frediani, 2016. "Institutionalization and Depoliticization of the Right to the City: Changing Scenarios for Radical Social Movements," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(2), pages 321-339, March.
    9. Cardullo, Paolo, 2017. "Gentrification in the mesh? Ethnography of Open Wireless Network - Deptford," OSF Preprints jm68s, Center for Open Science.
    10. Justus Uitermark & Walter Nicholls & Maarten Loopmans, 2012. "Cities and Social Movements: Theorizing beyond the Right to the City," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 44(11), pages 2546-2554, November.
    11. Lindsay Blair Howe, 2021. "Thinking through people: The potential of volunteered geographic information for mobility and urban studies," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(14), pages 3009-3028, November.
    12. Wang, Siqiang & Yung, Esther, Hiu Kwan & Yu, Yifan & Tsou, Jin Yeu, 2022. "Right to the city and community facility planning for elderly: The case of urban renewal district in Hong Kong," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).
    13. Veikko Eranti & Taina Meriluoto, 2023. "PLURALITY IN URBAN POLITICS: Conflict and Commonality in Mouffe and Thévenot," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(5), pages 693-709, September.
    14. Gillad Rosen & Anne B. Shlay, 2014. "Whose Right to Jerusalem?," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(3), pages 935-950, May.
    15. Sharon M. Meagher, 2015. "The politics of urban knowledge," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(6), pages 801-819, December.
    16. Isabelle Anguelovski, 2015. "Tactical developments for achieving just and sustainable neighborhoods: the role of community-based coalitions and bottom-to-bottom networks in street, technical, and funder activism," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 33(4), pages 703-725, August.
    17. Cesare Di Feliciantonio, 2017. "Spaces of the Expelled as Spaces of the Urban Commons? Analysing the Re-emergence of Squatting Initiatives in Rome," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(5), pages 708-725, September.
    18. Melissa Wilson & Bob Catterall, 2015. "City 's holistic and cumulative project (1996-2016): (1) Then and now: 'It all comes together in Los Angeles?'," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(1), pages 131-142, February.
    19. Kębłowski, Wojciech & Van Criekingen, Mathieu & Bassens, David, 2019. "Moving past the sustainable perspectives on transport: An attempt to mobilise critical urban transport studies with the right to the city," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 24-34.
    20. Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, 2019. "Reimagining a Transnational Right to the City: No Border Actions and Commoning Practices in Thessaloniki," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(2), pages 219-229.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:427-433. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CCIT20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.