Full Description
Transgressive City-Making and Governance delves into the pressing global issue of housing exclusion and forced evictions, using Lisbon as a case study. This book, based on a 15-month engaged ethnography, critically examines council housing occupations and evictions, revealing how these practices challenge neoliberal urban governance and put forward alternative forms of urban citizenship. Exploring gendered, classed, and racialised dynamics, it sheds light on the transformative potential of housing occupations and the role of social movements in contesting systemic exclusion. It is essential reading for those interested in housing rights, social justice, and urban governance.
Contents
Chapter IV
A. The significance of the Arab presence in the Mediterranean from the perspective of the emergence of portolan charts
B. The surviving Arabic portolan charts
C. Portolan charts and mathematical geography
D. The foundations of coordinate grids on European world maps
Chapter V
A. Arab nautical science in the Indian Ocean as evidence of a highly developed mathematical geography and cartography
B. Arab-Islamic astronomical navigation among the Portuguese
Chapter VI
A. Arabic cartography of the Indian Ocean according to non-Arab sources
B. Arabic cartography of the Indian Ocean among the Portuguese
C. Summary
Bibliography
I: Index of proper names
II: Index of book titles
III: Tables of geographical coordinates
IV: Index of maps
V: Index of place names and terms
