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- Associate Professor of Geography, Mashhad University, Mashhaa, Iran
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- Assistant Professor of Geography, Far Distance University, Miandoab, Iran
Abstract
Slum dwelling, as a local, national and trans-national process, is the spatial reflection of the existing disequilibrium in the process of national policymaking and function of geopolitics of capital on the one hand and the local causes and factors on the other hand. In the light of the above factors, slam dwellers are the victims and the consequences of the abovementioned unavoidable circumstances. They select the suburban slams, as the crossroad of urban and rural spatial contexts, for their social life, especially in the developing countries. As a matter of fact, they are not slam dwellers, but they have been repelled to slams and are condemned to tolerate all sufferings in the slums. In the final economic, social, cultural, identity and even humane contradictions in the hope of relative realization of spatial justice, they have found themselves in confrontation with urban marginal challenges. Based on fundamental principles of explanation of spatial disequilibrium and inequality, the present paper is an attempt to discuss the prevailing challenges in the relationship between slam settlements and the metropolitan city of Mashhad. Attempts have been made to go beyond tranquilizing approaches and formulate a new conceptual framework for definition of slam-dwelling to prepare the grounds for the solution of this problem.
Javan, J., & Abdollahi, A. (2008). Spatial Justice in Urban Dual Spaces
(Geopolitical Explanation of Patterns of Disequilibrium in Slum Settlements of Mashhad). Geopolitics Quarterly, 4(12), 131-156.
MLA
Jafar Javan; Abdollah Abdollahi. "Spatial Justice in Urban Dual Spaces
(Geopolitical Explanation of Patterns of Disequilibrium in Slum Settlements of Mashhad)". Geopolitics Quarterly, 4, 12, 2008, 131-156.
HARVARD
Javan, J., Abdollahi, A. (2008). 'Spatial Justice in Urban Dual Spaces
(Geopolitical Explanation of Patterns of Disequilibrium in Slum Settlements of Mashhad)', Geopolitics Quarterly, 4(12), pp. 131-156.
VANCOUVER
Javan, J., Abdollahi, A. Spatial Justice in Urban Dual Spaces
(Geopolitical Explanation of Patterns of Disequilibrium in Slum Settlements of Mashhad). Geopolitics Quarterly, 2008; 4(12): 131-156.
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