With the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) showing uneven progress, this review
identifies possible limitations arising from the MDG framework itself rather than extrinsic …

The successes and failures of the UN Millennium Development Goals and the establishment
of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals provide many opportunities for geographic …

This article draws on original empirical research in Accra, Ghana to explore the particular
dynamics that contemporary processes of class‐based dispossession assume at the urban …

Despite Gilbert's recent identification of the 'return of the slum'as a dangerous trend (2007),
scholars such as Rao (2006) assure us that there is a broader theoretical interest in applying …

The extent to which certain kinds of people are inundated with toxins, pollutants, bacteria,
viruses, violence, and disaster is well documented. The various ways in which the extension …

Accra is experiencing a housing crisis caused by the failure of both the state and the market
to provide affordable shelter for the city's low-income population. The launch of a new …

This article is a critical inquiry into particular methodological means underlying analyses of
development, inequalities, and poverty in the context of the Millennium Development Goals …

When accumulation in southern cities entails the dispossession of informal settlers, where
do they go and what spatialities emerge out of their dispossession? In Manila, this occurs …

Universal access to safe and secure housing has long been a central concern of the
international development community. Since 2001, this aspiration has taken the form of …

This article explores the connections between urban planning and a particular form of
biopolitics. These connections are investigated by looking at the emergence of “enjoyment” …