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LegitimacyPrivatization of Urban Governance and Legitimacy Disputes in a Social Housing Megaproject in Soacha, Colombia

Legitimacy: Privatization of Urban Governance and Legitimacy Disputes in a Social Housing... [Soacha, a municipality at the southern border of Bogota, has long faced a crisis of governance and legitimacy. This situation has deteriorated further as the government has encouraged the construction of large, privately developed housing. Drawing on detailed ethnography, Hurtado-Tarazona analyses how ordinary people establish legitimacy in their daily lives through actions that range from the illegal to the hyper-regulated. Illegal practices coexist with strict, community-enforced regulations in private and public spaces to ensure order, cleanliness and harmony among neighbours. Residents use their own material and non-material resources to cope with the structural difficulties of their context without feeling detached from the goal of middle-class citizenship. Thus, they face the failures of the municipality, filling the gaps in legitimacy without challenging the deficiencies of governance.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

LegitimacyPrivatization of Urban Governance and Legitimacy Disputes in a Social Housing Megaproject in Soacha, Colombia

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Pardo, Italo; Prato, Giuliana B.
Hurtado-Tarazona, Adriana
Legitimacy — Oct 18, 2018
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
ISBN
978-3-319-96237-5
Pages
145 –167
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-96238-2_7
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Abstract

[Soacha, a municipality at the southern border of Bogota, has long faced a crisis of governance and legitimacy. This situation has deteriorated further as the government has encouraged the construction of large, privately developed housing. Drawing on detailed ethnography, Hurtado-Tarazona analyses how ordinary people establish legitimacy in their daily lives through actions that range from the illegal to the hyper-regulated. Illegal practices coexist with strict, community-enforced regulations in private and public spaces to ensure order, cleanliness and harmony among neighbours. Residents use their own material and non-material resources to cope with the structural difficulties of their context without feeling detached from the goal of middle-class citizenship. Thus, they face the failures of the municipality, filling the gaps in legitimacy without challenging the deficiencies of governance.]

Published: Oct 18, 2018

Keywords: Megaprojects; Management Coexistence; Cultural Citizenship; Disregard Rules; housingHousing

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