Megacities (eBook, PDF)

The Politics of Urban Exclusion and Violence in the Global South
Redaktion: Kruijt, Dirk; Koonings, Kees

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Produktbeschreibung

For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of urbanization that started in the second half of the twentieth century. 'Megacities' around the world are rapidly becoming the scene for deprivation, especially in the global South, and the urban excluded face the brunt of what in many cases seems like low-intensity warfare.

Featuring case studies from across the globe, including Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, Megacities examines recent worldwide trends in poverty and social exclusion, urban violence and politics, and links these to the challenges faced by policy-makers and practitioners.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 209
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848134904
• Artikelnr.: 38356705

Autorenporträt

Kees Koonings is Associate Professor of Development Studies and Latin American Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Utrecht University. He has published on development issues, ethnicity, the military, democracy and violence in Latin America. He has previously co-edited Societies of Fear (1999), Political Armies (2002), Armed Actors (2004) and Fractured Cities (2007). His current research interests include the armed conflict and peace processes in Colombia, and social mobilization and citizenship in Brazil. Dirk Kruijt is Honorary Professor of Development Studies at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Utrecht University. He has published on social exclusion, poverty and Informalisation, military dictatorship, guerrilla movements, civil wars and ethnic conflicts, peace negotiations and post-war reconstruction. He has previously co-edited Societies of Fear (1999), Political Armies (2002), Armed Actors (2004) and Fractured Cities (2007) and published Guerrillas (2008) with Zed Books.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Sérgio Gregório 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