- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 172 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. And at the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform. For Indigenous peoples, access to affordable housing remains crucial to alleviating poverty. But as palapas, traditional thatch and wood houses, are replaced by tract houses in the Yucatán Peninsula, Indigenous peoples' relationship to land, urbanism, and finance is similarly transformed, revealing a legacy of debt and dispossession. "Indigenous Dispossession" examines how Maya families grapple with the ramifications of neoliberal housing policies. M. Bianet Castellanos relates Maya migrants' experiences with housing and mortgage finance in Cancún, one of Mexico's fastest growing cities. Their struggle to own homes reveals colonial and settler colonial structures that underpin the city's economy, built environment, and racial order. But even as Maya people contend with predatory lending practices and foreclosure, they cultivate strategies of resistance-from "waiting out" the state, to demanding Indigenous rights in urban centers. As Castellanos argues, it is through these maneuvers that Maya migrants forge a new vision of Indigenous urbanism"--
- Uniform Title
- Indigenous dispossession (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Indigenous dispossession (Online)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-159) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Before housing reform: the gendering of urban property -- Promoting housing reform: debt as patrimony -- After housing reform: credit as the new frontier -- Foreclosure: waiting out the state -- Eviction: invoking indigenous resistance -- Epilogue: a cautionary tale of indebtedness.
- ISBN
- 9781503603288
- 9781503614345
- 9781503614352 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020025593
- OCLC
- ssj0002467895
- Author
Castellanos, María Bianet.
- Title
Indigenous dispossession [electronic resource] : housing and Maya indebtedness in Mexico / M. Bianet Castellanos.
- Imprint
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-159) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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