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Megacities : the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global south /

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"The twenty-first century is set to be the stage for the massive urbanization of the world's population. Particularly, the so-called 'megacities' around the world are rapidly becoming the scene for deprivation and exclusion, especially in what has come to be called the 'glob...

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Other Authors: Kruijt, Dirk (Editor), Koonings, Kees (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London [England] : Zed Books, 2009.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Urban poor > Developing countries > Congresses.
Urban poor > Southern Hemisphere > Congresses.
Marginality, Social > Developing countries > Congresses.
Political science & theory
Urban communities
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The rise of megacities and the urbanization of informality, exclusion and violence / Dirk Kruijt and Kees Koonings
  • From popular movements to drug gangs to militias : an anatomy of violence in Rio de Janeiro / Robert Gay
  • Megacity's violence and its consequences in Rio de Janeiro / Janice Perlman
  • Coping with urban violence : state and community responses to crime and insecurity in Guayaquil, Ecuador / Caroline Moser
  • Middle Eastern megacities : social exclusion, popular movements and the quiet encroachment of the urban poor / Asef Bayat
  • Urban governance and the paradox of conflict / Jo Beall
  • Shoot the citizen, save the customer : participatory budgeting and bare citizenship in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Sérgio Baierle
  • Crisis of the state, violence in the city / Mariano Aguirre
  • Urban exclusion and the (false) assumptions of spatial policy reform in South Africa / Susan Parnell and Owen Crankshaw
  • Conclusions : governing exclusion and violence in megacities / Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt.