Abstract
ABSTRACT Recent critical scholarship regarding the right to the city suggests that the concept inadequately addresses the function of rights within urban socio-legal processes. This paper draws from various rights literatures to bring rights to the forefront of urban analyses. Empirically, the paper details the political struggles of Right 2 Dream Too (R2DT), a self-governed houseless encampment in Portland, Oregon, drawing from interviews with encampment residents and government officials as well as from analysis of media, government, and legal documents. The paper articulates how R2DT organized around a foundational set of moral claims for rights to a place of its own. While the paper admonishes that rights are ever contingent, and thus always unsettled, R2DT’s struggle over rights more broadly reflects how marginalized groups struggling over a right to exist within contemporary cities may be realized.
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