Articles with tag: gentrification

Issue 20
San Andrés Cholula
religious festivals
urban indigeneity
everyday resistance
gentrification

Las Fiestas against Displacement

Religious Celebrations as Socio-Territorial Resistance in San Andrés Cholula, Mexico

The pre-Hispanic city of Cholula was an important religious center for the cultures of Mesoamerica. The settlement under discussion was located in the territory that comprises the municipalities of San Andrés Cholula and San Pedro Cholula in the state of Puebla, within the Central Highlands of Mexico. It is claimed that in Cholula there are three hundred sixty-five churches, one for each day of the year. Despite the absence of empirical evidence, this legend…

Issue 3
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Alan Bennett
The Lady in the Van
homelessness
anti-homeless laws
Homeless Vehicle
urban eviction
gentrification

Bypassing the Law in a Homeless Vehicle

Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van

Polish artist and social activist Krzysztof Wodiczko received much attention during the late 1980s and early 1990s for his “Homeless Vehicle Project.” [1] The Homeless Vehicles were carefully engineered and constantly improved devices designed to make life for urban street dwellers easier and to afford them a form of protected visibility in the streets of the modern metropolis. Protection and visibility are also two major functions fulfilled by the ‘homeless vehicle’ in Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van, published as a book in 1989, adapted to the stage in 1999 by the author, and brought to the screen by Nicholas Hytner in 2015. [2] […]