Ann Varley

University College London, Geography, Faculty Member

University College London, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Director

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Ann Varley is Professor of Human Geography at UCL (University College London) and Director of UCL Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her research interests focus on housing and land in urban Mexico, with a particular focus on property titling and housing tenure. She has also worked extensively on gender, the urban household and the home, including on older people's living arrangements, and is currently working on equal marriage in Latin America. Ann has held an individual residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's study centre in Bellagio, Italy, and is a recipient of the Royal Geographical Society's Busk Medal.

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At Home In The City

Introduction. Law and Gender in Mexico: Defining the Field

Decoding Gender, 2020

Los códigos del género: prácticas del derecho en el México contemporáneo

Landlord and Tenant

Barcelona's Olympic facelift

The Geographical magazine, 1992

12 Home and Belonging: Reflections from Urban Mexico

Berghahn Books, May 1, 2015

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Home Care workers found my father, Maurice, on the floor by his bed when they went in to make his... more Home Care workers found my father, Maurice, on the floor by his bed when they went in to make his breakfast one morning in September 2004. No formal diagnosis was made, but we suspected that he had probably had a stroke. The idea made sense, since Dad had angina as well as the dementia with which he'd been diagnosed three years earlier. Whatever the cause, there was no doubt that his cognitive abilities had also been affected. His performance on diagnostic tests had plummeted. The conclusion was predictable: he could no longer live safely on his own. When we moved him into a specialist home, the staff asked me to make up a `memory box ' for my father. Something to contain family photographs and other small objects that might trigger memories and help to keep his mind active. So my husband helped me get down the boxes stored in the loft of the bungalow that my parents had bought, newly built, in the 1950s, and I started to look for photographs that would mean something to m...

7. Domesticating the Law

Decoding Gender, 2020

Feminist perspectives on urban poverty: De-essentialising difference

In: Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban. (pp. 125-141). (2013), 2013

La titulación a debate: aportes de medio siglo de regularización de la tenencia de la tierra en asentamientos informales en México

Investigaciones Geográficas, 2019

Existe una extensa bibliografía en contra del otorgamiento de títulos de propiedad en los asentam... more Existe una extensa bibliografía en contra del otorgamiento de títulos de propiedad en los asentamientos informales. Una inquietud es que dicho otorgamiento conlleva la mercantilización y el desplazamiento de los habitantes originales impulsado por el mercado. Otra es que propaga la ideología de la propiedad privada, socava la solidaridad colectiva y desmoviliza los movimientos sociales. Este artículo, basado en observaciones realizadas en la Ciudad de México y Guadalajara, reporta poca evidencia de desplazamiento, pero resalta la importancia de la ubicación. Apoya la opinión de que la formalización mina la resistencia, pero argumenta que la concesión de títulos de propiedad lo logra al satisfacer, más que generar, el anhelo de los pobres de las zonas urbanas de poseer propiedad privada y su propia vivienda.

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2 Gender, families and households

The Companion to Development Studies, 2013

Landlord–tenant relations

Feminism’s pale shadows: older women, gender and development

Home and belonging: reflections from urban Mexico

Preface Urban Informality in Latin America in Global Perspective

Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2019

That there is a need to decolonise knowledge could perhaps be described as a truth now universall... more That there is a need to decolonise knowledge could perhaps be described as a truth now universally acknowledged. Contemporary thinkers challenge the division between a global north producing scientific knowledge and theory, and a global south supplying 'unprocessed data' (Comaroff and Comaroff, 2012b: 1). Calls to theorise from the south have emerged alongside a recognition that cities now house most of the world's population, and that it is the global south which is now leading the world's urbanisation. Not surprisingly, then, urbanists have responded enthusiastically to the demand for 'new geographies' of urban theory (Roy, 2009: 819; Robinson, 2014).

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New models of urban land regularisation in Mexico: decentralisation and democracy vs. clientelism

Department of Geography, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK. Tel: +44... more Department of Geography, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK. Tel: +44-171-504-5519. Fax: +44-171-380-7565. e-mail: [email protected] for delivery at the 1998 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, The PalmerHouse Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, September 24-26, 1998.Announced in LASA program as: ‘Land and democracy: new responses to illegal urban development in Guadalajara, Mexico’.

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THE IMPACT OF MEXICO ’S LAND REFORM ON PERIURBAN HOUSING PRODUCTION : Neoliberal or Neocorporatist?

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2021

InTernATIonAl JournAl of urbAn And regIonAl reseArch publIshed by John WIley & sons lTd on behAlf... more InTernATIonAl JournAl of urbAn And regIonAl reseArch publIshed by John WIley & sons lTd on behAlf of urbAn reseArch publIcATIons lImITed The authors acknowledge a UCL (University College London) Santander Research Catalyst Award and sabbatical funding from El Colegio de México that enabled them to work together on this article in Mexico City and in London. We thank Tania Guerrero Ríos (UCL) for her analysis of ejido contributions to urban enumeration districts and Miles Irving (Drawing Office, UCL) for producing the maps. We are particularly grateful for the IJURR reviewers' astute and helpful comments. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Property titles and the urban poor: from informality to displacement?

Planning Theory & Practice, 2016

An extensive literature opposes the provision of property titles for the residents of informal se... more An extensive literature opposes the provision of property titles for the residents of informal settlements. One concern is that titling leads to commodification and the market-driven displacement of the original inhabitants. Another is that it propagates the ideology of private ownership, undermines collective solidarity and demobilises social movements. This article, based on observations from Mexico City and Guadalajara, finds little evidence of displacement but highlights the importance of location. It supports the view that formalisation undermines resistance, but argues that titling does so by meeting rather than creating the desire of the urban poor for private property and homeownership.

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