ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book concerns the spatial rights and justice of slum dwellers in Thailand. It presents the dilemmas of working with a prison and considers prisoners' 'rights to space' in conditions. The book deals with the potential of small and transitory moments of injustice resulting from complex post-conflict situations, to generate radical politics and new spatialities involving unexpected relations. It also presents the pressing needs of housing, where affordable housing is no longer part of societal, welfare provision. The book describes practices that actively interrupt 'rule-regimes associated with market-oriented, growth-first urban development' to (re)design the systems 'that govern the production, use, occupation and appropriation of space'. It suggests that the spatial and architectural elements of the movement were key to the social (re)production of that movement.
