Title: Megacities: The Politics of Urban Exclusion and Violence in the Global South
Abstract: * Acknowledgements * Introduction * 1. The Rise of Megacities and the Urbanization of Informality, Exclusion and Violence - Dirk Kruijt & Kees Koonings * Part I: The Social Dynamics of Exclusion and Violence in Megacities ** 2. From Popular Movements to Drug Gangs to Militias: An Anatomy of Violence in Rio de Janeiro by Robert Gay ** 3. Megacity's Violence and its Consequences in Rio de Janeiro by Janice Perlman ** 4. Coping with Urban Violence: State and Community Responses to Crime and Insecurity in Guayaquil, Ecuador by Caroline Moser ** 5. Middle Eastern Megacities: Social Exclusion, Popular Movements and the Quiet Encroachment of the Urban Poor by Asef Bayat * Part II: Political and Policy Dimensions of Urban Exclusion and Violence ** 6. Urban Governance and the Paradox of Conflict by Jo Beall ** 7. Shoot the Citizen, Save the Customer: Participatory Budgeting and Bare Citizenship in Porto Alegre, Brazil by Sergio Gregorio Baierle ** 8. Crisis of the State, Violence in the City by Mariano Aguirre ** 9. Urban Exclusion and the (False) Assumptions of Spatial Policy Reform in South Africa by Susan Parnell and Owen Crankshaw * Conclusions: Governing Exclusion and Violence in Megacities by Kees Koonings & Dirk Kruijt
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-12-10
Language: en
Type: book
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