Ann Varley
University College London, Geography, Faculty Member
- University College London, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department Memberadd
- Ann Varley is Professor of Human Geography at UCL (University College London) and Director of UCL Gender & Sexuality ... moreAnn 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.edit
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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... 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...
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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... 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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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: avarley@geog.ucl.ac.ukPrepared for delivery at the 1998 meeting of the Latin American Studies... 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: avarley@geog.ucl.ac.ukPrepared 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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TWPR, 17 (2) 1995 ANN VARLEY Neither victims nor heroines Women, land and housing in Mexican ... All translations by the author of this article. Dr Ann Varley is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, University College London, 26... more
TWPR, 17 (2) 1995 ANN VARLEY Neither victims nor heroines Women, land and housing in Mexican ... All translations by the author of this article. Dr Ann Varley is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WCIH OAP. 169 ...
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Changes to Mexico's Constitution in the 1990s marked the end of agrarian reform and the Revolutionary land regime which had allowed beneficiaries to work but not to sell their land. New legislation allowed individual parcels of ejido... more
Changes to Mexico's Constitution in the 1990s marked the end of agrarian reform and the Revolutionary land regime which had allowed beneficiaries to work but not to sell their land. New legislation allowed individual parcels of ejido land to be converted into private property. Many observers link this 'privatization' with a transformation of the periurban landscape resulting from private developers' construction of mass 'social housing' developments: a classic example of neoliberal urbanism. We examine evidence for the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, finding that, although some developments do occupy former ejido land, developers mostly prefer private property, including former haciendas. Private sector interests are wary of the ejido for reasons that stem from its place in the corporatist political system that characterized twentieth-century Mexico, and the patchwork of privatized individual parcels clashes with developers' land acquisition strategies. Ej...
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T he material that we analyse comes from a three-year research project on gender and housing in Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city. 1 The research has a variety of aims. One of them is to identify new directions for... more
T he material that we analyse comes from a three-year research project on gender and housing in Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city. 1 The research has a variety of aims. One of them is to identify new directions for gender-sensitive policy formulation. We also plan to ...
Research Interests: Geography, Demography, Housing, Developing Countries, Research, and 15 moreMexico, Latin America, Population, Americas, North America, Family Relations, Aged, Gender Development, Adult, Sex Factors, Age Factors, MEXICO, Population Characteristics, Family Characteristics, and Residence Characteristics
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This book is concerned with the value of vulnerability analysis for disaster research and mitigation during the United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. Despite the frequency of natural disasters and their... more
This book is concerned with the value of vulnerability analysis for disaster research and mitigation during the United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. Despite the frequency of natural disasters and their harrowing human impact, it is often the inadequate planning ...
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From E Fernandes and A Varley (eds) Illegal Cities: Law and Urban Change in Developing Countries, 1998, Zed Books, pages 172-190.
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... 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.
Urban informality has been the subject of renewed attention in recent years, with a resurgence of interest from architecture and planning. A focus on informality has however been criticised as reviving colonial hierarchies, characterising... more
Urban informality has been the subject of renewed attention in recent years, with a resurgence of interest from architecture and planning. A focus on informality has however been criticised as reviving colonial hierarchies, characterising entire cities in terms of lack and rendering them perpetually inferior to Western cities. The call to postcolonialise urban studies has been answered by an emerging literature which has neglected Latin America. This paper therefore examines recent work on urban informality in the region that resonates with other scholarship at the intersection of postcolonial and urban studies. The Latin American work is characterised by an emphasis on informality as resistance and by challenges to the formal/informal binary. Its 'favela-isation' of the continent can however perpetuate dualistic interpretations, entrenching or inverting stereotypes rather than disrupting them. The paper also asks what postcolonial readings of informality from elsewhere can contribute to understanding Latin American experience.
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... Recurring themes such as the significance of patrivirilocality and the belief that it is men's responsibility to house their family (Napolitano 2002; Varley 1993, 2000; Wilson 1991 ... Two were self-help settlements where... more
... Recurring themes such as the significance of patrivirilocality and the belief that it is men's responsibility to house their family (Napolitano 2002; Varley 1993, 2000; Wilson 1991 ... Two were self-help settlements where families built their houses on illegally acquired ejido land. ...
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Book description: Gender discrimination pervades nearly all legal institutions and practices in Latin America. The deeper question is how this shapes broader relations of power. By examining the relationship between law and gender as it... more
Book description: Gender discrimination pervades nearly all legal institutions and practices in Latin America. The deeper question is how this shapes broader relations of power. By examining the relationship between law and gender as it manifests itself in the Mexican legal ...
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De lo privado a lo público: género, ilegalidad y legalización de la tenencia de la tierra urbana* Ann Varley** Los asentamientos populares de las ciudades latinoamericanas, asiáticas y africanas se caracterizan por la ilegalidad de la... more
De lo privado a lo público: género, ilegalidad y legalización de la tenencia de la tierra urbana* Ann Varley** Los asentamientos populares de las ciudades latinoamericanas, asiáticas y africanas se caracterizan por la ilegalidad de la tenencia.de la tierra. La legalización de ...
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ABSTRACT El carácter ilegal de la tenencia de la tierra hizo de la regularización de la propiedad una política nacional. Sin embargo, el crecimiento industrial y económico que puso en tela de juicio el modelo de desarrollo estabilizador... more
ABSTRACT El carácter ilegal de la tenencia de la tierra hizo de la regularización de la propiedad una política nacional. Sin embargo, el crecimiento industrial y económico que puso en tela de juicio el modelo de desarrollo estabilizador acarreó mayores problemas. La pax priísta, las invasiones de tierra y el descontento popular hicieron que los organismos gubernamentales encargados de regular la desmedida expansión rural y urbana configuraran sus funciones de acuerdo con las nuevas circunstancias políticas. La regularización y sus efectos en la estabilidad política del país ofrecen un rico campo de estudio que queda aún por explorar. /// The illegal nature of land ownership made property regularization a national policy. However, the industrial and economic growth that questioned the stabilizing development model entailed further problems. The PRI peace, the invasion of land and popular discontent meant that the government organizations responsible for regulating the excessive rural and urban expansion adapted their functions to fit in with the new political circumstances. Property regularization and its effects on the country's political stability constitute a fascinating field of study that has yet to be explored.