TY - JOUR
T1 - The institutional perspective on informal housing
AU - Dekel, Tomer
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - The expanding study of informal housing offers multiple - and often confusing - perspectives on its emergence. The paper proposes an updated classification of the major perspectives available, namely, the economic, political-economic, post-colonial, and cultural. It continues to introduce the most debated perspective today, framed as the institutional perspective that embraces New-Institutionalist notions and understands the informal occupiers as agents who mobilize within fragmented and not-predetermined institutional and legal settings. The perspectives are examined regarding the case-study of Bir-Hadaj, a Bedouin informal settlement in Southern Israel that was studied through interviews and analysis of protocols and other reports. The conclusions portray the strength of the institutional perspective in analyzing the emergence and sustainment of informality, alongside the other perspectives.
AB - The expanding study of informal housing offers multiple - and often confusing - perspectives on its emergence. The paper proposes an updated classification of the major perspectives available, namely, the economic, political-economic, post-colonial, and cultural. It continues to introduce the most debated perspective today, framed as the institutional perspective that embraces New-Institutionalist notions and understands the informal occupiers as agents who mobilize within fragmented and not-predetermined institutional and legal settings. The perspectives are examined regarding the case-study of Bir-Hadaj, a Bedouin informal settlement in Southern Israel that was studied through interviews and analysis of protocols and other reports. The conclusions portray the strength of the institutional perspective in analyzing the emergence and sustainment of informality, alongside the other perspectives.
KW - Bedouin
KW - Beer-Sheva
KW - Informality
KW - New-Institutionalism
KW - Perspectives
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U2 - 10.1016/j.habitatint.2020.102287
DO - 10.1016/j.habitatint.2020.102287
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096690230
SN - 0197-3975
VL - 106
JO - Habitat International
JF - Habitat International
M1 - 102287
ER -