Legal geographies of neoliberalism: Market-oriented tenure reforms and the construction of an ‘informal’ urban class in post-socialist Phnom Penh
| Autor: | Benjamin C. R. Flower |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Class (computer programming)
Neoliberalism (international relations) 05 social sciences Post socialist 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Urban Studies Phnom penh Market oriented Political science Political economy 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Urban Studies. 56:2408-2425 |
| ISSN: | 1360-063X 0042-0980 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0042098018794640 |
| Popis: | In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cambodia’s transition from socialist to market-oriented tenure became associated with severe tenure insecurity for those living in areas of self-built housing in the capital, Phnom Penh. This paper explores the legal geographies of this tenure insecurity by assessing how low-income urban dwellers interacted with a rapidly shifting legal system. Through analysis of historical legal documents, survey data and archived land disputes, it is found that market-oriented tenure reforms were exclusionary by design, and directly resulted in an ‘informal’ tenure system that legally rendered self-built dwellings in a constant state of provisionality. The findings provide a critique of orthodox accounts of tenure reform in post-socialist cities, which propose the deepening of market reforms to increase security. Instead, the paper builds on critical legal geographies of neoliberalism by suggesting that insecurity in Phnom Penh was perpetuated by laws, rather than their absence or the circumventing of laws. The analysis also contributes to understandings of informal tenure by presenting a post-socialist, state-constructed and exclusionary system of informality. |
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