Megacities : the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global south /: the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global south. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt.
• Other Names: Koonings, Kees; Kruijt, Dirk
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 200 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 305.5/6909172/4; Urban poor -- Developing countries -- Congresses; Urban poor -- Southern Hemisphere -- Congresses; Marginality, Social -- Developing countries -- Congresses; Marginality, Social -- Southern Hemisphere -- Congresses; Urban violence -- Developing countries -- Congresses; Urban violence -- Southern Hemisphere -- Congresses; Cities and towns -- Developing countries -- Growth -- Congresses; Cities and towns -- Southern Hemisphere -- Growth -- Congresses; Urbanization -- Southern Hemisphere -- Congresses; Urbanization -- Developing countries -- Congresses; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness; Cities and towns -- Growth; Marginality, Social; Social conditions; Urban poor; Urban violence; Urbanization; Developing countries -- Social conditions -- Congresses; Southern Hemisphere -- Social conditions -- Congresses; Developing countries; Southern Hemisphere; Electronic book; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848134904; 1848134908
• Related ISBNs: 9781848132962; 1848132964; 9781848132955; 1848132956
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-194) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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