Handle With Care: Navigating the Pluriformity of Power to Enable Actionable Knowledge for Transitions in Informal Settlements in the Global South
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Date
2019
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Urban Transformations
Abstract
This Perspective positions urban challenges in informal settlements in the Global
South as a question of how to coproduce actionable knowledge for sustainability transitions, and how this relates to power issues. The aim is to inform those who are actively working on sustainability transitions in practice how to navigate the pluriform ways power matters in transitions. Also as a way to reflect on one’s doings and as a starting point to develop research and/or policy programs that enable alternative solutions. This Perspective is based on fieldwork in three informal settlements in Kampala and focusses specifically on sustainability issues related to gaining access to, maintenance and control of water services. We highlight the importance of challenging dominant frames of places and communities, coproducing dynamic maps of power relations and interdependencies related to a specific urban challenge and taking into account the contextualized understanding of power relations within a political system.
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This is a research paper on Handle with care: navigating the pluriformity of power to enable actionable knowledge for transitions in informal settlements in the global south.
Keywords
Urban Transformation, Water access, Urban Settlement – Kampala
Citation
Karlijn et al. Handle with care: navigating the pluriformity of power to enable actionable knowledge for transitions in informal settlements in the global south. Schipper et al. Urban Transformations (2019) 1:4 https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-019-0004-4