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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koonings, Kees.

Kruijt, Dirk.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban poor--Developing countries--Congresses.

Urban poor.

Urban poor--Southern Hemisphere--Congresses.

Marginality, Social--Developing countries--Congresses.

Marginality, Social.

Marginality, Social--Southern Hemisphere--Congresses.

Urban violence--Developing countries--Congresses.

Urban violence.

Urban violence--Southern Hemisphere--Congresses.

Cities and towns--Developing countries--Growth--Congresses.

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns--Southern Hemisphere--Growth--Congresses.

Urbanization--Southern Hemisphere--Congresses.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Developing countries--Congresses.

Social conditions.

Growth.

Developing countries.

Developing countries--Social conditions--Congresses.

Southern Hemisphere--Social conditions--Congresses.

Southern Hemisphere.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books, 2009.

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.

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 (pages 178-194) and index.

ISBN:

1848132964

9781848132962

9781848132955

1848132956

9781848134904

1848134908

OCLC:

462785461

Publisher Number:

99944307932