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Beyond Jobs vs Environment: On the Potential of Universal Basic Income to Reconfigure Environmental Politics

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12601?af=R Abstract

Under the influence of the discourses and practices of global neoliberal urbanism, municipal administrations worldwide aspire to make their cities world class spaces, where informality is an anachronism and poverty can be made history. In this essay, drawing on fieldwork conducted in Jakarta, Indonesia, San Francisco (California), and Seattle (Washington), we address the question of how a geographic relational poverty approach can help us understand, or at least expand ways of thinking about these processes by attending to urban informality and the politics of poverty. Informality, a pervasive feature of the global South and North, functions as a survival strategy whereby the monetarily poor can compensate for their lack of income through commoning. Market"?driven, state underwritten urban development initiatives for housing those with wealth is limiting the conditions of possibility for the monetarily poor, and informality. This is compounded by emergent political discourses rendering informality as inappropriate, and the monetarily poor as undeserving of a right to the city. Yet long"?standing more"?than"?capitalist and communal informal practices pursued by the urban poor remain effective and necessary survival strategies, supporting residents whose presence is necessary to the city and whose practices challenge capitalist norms.

» Author: 2> <p>The tension between creating jobs and protecting the environment remains central to contemporary environmental politics. Critical scholars have reworked the "jobs vs the environment" problematique, but how people will secure livelihoods in

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