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Title:

Megacities : the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global south / edited by Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt.

Publisher:

Zed Books,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

viii, 200 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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--Congresses.--Congresses.--Congresses.
Cities and towns--Southern Hemisphere--Growth--Congresses.
Urbanization--Southern Hemisphere--Congresses.
Urbanization--Developing countries--Congresses.--Congresses.
Developing countries--Social conditions--Congresses.
Southern Hemisphere--Social conditions--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Koonings, Kees.
Kruijt, Dirk.

Notes:

"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 (p. 178-194) and index.

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 / S©♭rgio 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.

ISBN:

1848132956 (hb)
9781848132955 (hb)
1848132964 (pb)
9781848132962 (pb)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)462785461

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)