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The Right to the City: The Land and Housing Movements

In: Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents

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  • Balihar Sanghera

    (University of Kent)

  • Elmira Satybaldieva

    (University of Kent)

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This chapter examines how rural migrants and propertyless groups mobilised their right to the city through informal settlements in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Residents of informal settlements formed grassroots movements to protect their homes, politicise housing shortage, lobby for land for housing, and demand legalisation and improvements to informal settlements. They tried to resist the neoliberal commodification of land and real estate and its negative effects on their lives. They struggled against state and business elites, who viewed informal settlements as chaotic and uncivilised. The demolition and construction of informal settlements offered an opportunity for the rich and powerful to modernise the city and extract rent. The chapter discusses how housing and land struggles unfolded in each country, and how country-specific political structures were important for the social movements’ trajectories and achievements.

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  • Balihar Sanghera & Elmira Satybaldieva, 2021. "The Right to the City: The Land and Housing Movements," Springer Books, in: Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents, chapter 0, pages 149-183, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-76303-9_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76303-9_7
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