1st Edition

Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh The Production of Counterspace

By Lutfun Nahar Lata Copyright 2023
206 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book analyses the key livelihood and governance challenges that the urban poor experience while navigating public spaces in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Using data collected through extensive fieldwork in Bangladesh, the book contributes to the emerging scholarship of resilient cities, gendered space, spatial justice, and poverty in cities of the Global South. The book assesses the everyday... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Space, the Right to the City and Informality  3. Power, Governance, Planning and Resistance  4. Urban Governance, Planning and Informality in Dhaka  5. Urban Informality, Power and Resistance in Dhaka  6. Women, Space and Urban Informality  7 Conclusion

Biography

Lutfun Nahar Lata is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social Solutions research group at the Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Australia. Her research spans a number of areas, particularly she has developed an impactful program of research into the key social policy topics of precarious work, migration, poverty governance, urban marginality, housing and place-based disadvantage. Lata’s recent work examines the impact of the gig economy on migrant workers in Australia.