Megacities : the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global south /: the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global south. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt.
• Other Names: Koonings, Kees; Kruijt, Dirk
• Contents: 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 Megacities2. 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 Violence6. 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Subjects: 362.5091732; 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; 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; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848137318; 1848137311
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