Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques

Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South

Poverty, Segregation and Social Networks in São Paulo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A rigorous examination of poverty in São Paulo, a contemporary megacity, Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South explores the different types of network that exist amongst the metropolitan poor, the conditions that shape and influence them, their consequences for the production of poverty and the mechanisms through which networks influence daily living conditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781409442707
• ISBN-10: 1409442705
• Artikelnr.: 45376481

Autorenporträt

Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques is Livre-docente Professor in the Department of Political Science and a researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the University of São Paulo, Brazil

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Constructing Conceptual Bridges between Poverty, Segregation and Networks
Chapter 2 The Spaces and Poverties of São Paulo
Chapter 3 What are the Networks of Metropolitan Poor Really Like?
Chapter 4 How do the Networks Vary?
Chapter 5 Do the Networks Matter for the Access to Markets?
Chapter 6 Do Social Networks Matter in Gaining Access to Goods and Services Obtained from Outside Markets?
Chapter 7 How do the Networks Matter
Chapter 101 Conclusion