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Megacities : the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global south
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- Creator
- edited by Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Zed Books, 2009
- Physical Details
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- viii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781848132962, 1848132964, 9781848132955, 1848132956, 9781848134904, 1848134908
- OCLC
- ocn462785461
- "The chapters of this book were originally presented as draft papers at the conference 'The politics of urban poverty, exclusion and violence: comparative analysis and policy insights,' organized in The Hague on 27 and 28 September 2007"--P. vii.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-194) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.
- Developing countries -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
- Southern Hemisphere -- Social conditions -- Congresses.