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Book SynopsisBringing together case studies ranging across the globe, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Kenya, Uganda and Bangladesh and contested âinformalâ enclaves and communities in the cities of India, China, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa, this book challenges current ways of thinking about the governance of human settling, mobility and placemaking.
Together, the 15 essays question the validity of the conventional hegemonic divisions of Global North vs. Global South and âformalâ vs. âinformalâ, in terms of geographic presence, transborder performances and the ideological inter-dependence of Northern and Southern spaces, spatial practices and the uniformity of authoritative enforcements. The book, whose authors themselves come from all over the world, uses âGlobal Southâ as a methodological apparatus to ask the âSouthernâ question of settling and unsettling across the globe. Crucially, the studies reveal the sentiments, resourcefu
