Urban informality : transnational perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia / edited by Ananya Roy and Nezar AlSayyad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roy, Ananya.

AlSayyad, Nezar.

Series:

Transnational perspectives on space and place

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Economic aspects.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Middle East.

Urbanization--Latin America.

Land use, Urban--Social aspects.

Land use, Urban.

Latin America.

Urbanization--South Asia.

Squatter settlements.

Informal sector (Economics).

South Asia.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2004]

Summary:

The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate how these trends make new forms of social and political power possible.

Contents:

Prologue/Dialogue Urban Informality: Crossing Borders / Nezar AlSayyad, Ananya Roy 1

1. Urban Informality as a "New" Way of Life / Nezar AlSayyad 7

Part I Liberalization, Globalization, and Urban Informality

2. Love in the Time of Enhanced Capital Flows: Reflections on the Links between Liberalization and Informality / Alan Gilbert 33

3. The Changing Nature of the Informal Sector in Karachi due to Global Restructuring and Liberalization, and Its Repercussions / Arif Hasan 67

4. Globalization and the Politics of the Informals in the Global South / Asef Bayat 79

Part II The Politics of Urban Informalities

5. Marginality: From Myth to Reality in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969-2002 / Janice E. Perlman 105

6. The Gentlemen's City: Urban Informality in the Calcutta of New Communism / Ananya Roy 147

7. Tilting at Sphinexes: Locating Urban Informality in Egyptian Cities / Ahmed M. Soliman 171

8. Control, Resistance, and Informality: Urban Ethnocracy in Beer-Sheva, Israel / Oren Yiftachel, Haim Yakobi 209

Part III Transnational Interrogation

9. Informality of Housing Production at the Urban-Rural Interface: The "Not So Strange Case" of the Texas Colonias / Peter M. Ward 243

10. Power, Property, and Poverty: Why De Soto's "Mystery of Capital" Cannot Be Solved / Ray Bromley 271

11. Transnational Trespassings: The Geopolitics of Urban Informality / Ananya Roy 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-322) and index.

ISBN:

0739107402

0739107410

OCLC:

52559155