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グローバル・サウス ニオケル「スラム」ノ ホウセツテキ ハイジョ オ メグッテ

On the Inclusive Exclusion of "Slums" in the Global South

国際協力論集

27(2)

93-109

神戸大学大学院国際協力研究科

2020-01-31

2020-02-20

This article examines how “slums” in the Global South have been restructured by interrogating post-colonialism. While urban redevelopment in the Global South has caused reconfiguration of urban space in the wake of neoliberal urbanism, urban “slums” have been concomitantly forced to move to resettlement sites. The article seeks to explore urban redevelopment and the growth of resettlements sites in the Global South as an inclusive exclusion process, focusing on the mobility of the global elite and “the forced mobility” of the urban poor. The inclusive exclusion process of “slums” was constituted as the result of the post-colonial power relations. The term “slum”, in English, was first used in London in the early 19th century and later expanded into developing countries after World War Two. At this time, “slums” were a target of “eradication”, but this shifted to “improvement” in the 1970s and 80s. In the Global South, the “eradication of slums” once again came to the fore as seen in “Cities Without Slums” which was one of the slogans of the Millennium Development Goals initiated by the United Nations in the year 2000. Western values based on both the “rule of law” and private property in civil society constituted the inclusive exclusion of “slums” through resettlement projects. Such interventions to eradicate “slums” are relativized by social movements in the Global South based on the “right to the city”, which is a process of self-determination for every day life.

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