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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kruijt, Dirk, editor.

Koonings, Kees, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban poor--Developing countries--Congresses.

Urban poor.

Urban poor--Southern Hemisphere--Congresses.

Marginality, Social--Developing countries--Congresses.

Marginality, Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Zed Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The twenty-first century is set to be the stage for the massive urbanization of the world's population. Particularly, the so-called 'megacities' around the world are rapidly becoming the scene for deprivation and exclusion, especially in what has come to be called the 'global south'. In such large-scale yet concentrated social environments, a complex set of relationships links poverty and exclusion to urban politics, power relations and public policy. Violent actors look for power in strategies that seek access to urban politics and policy-making. The urban poor are confronted with the challenge of charting pathways in their 'encounters with violence'. Local politicians, administrators, grass roots leaders and NGO officials are faced with the puzzle of how to restore effective non-violent institutions, legitimate governance and citizen security. Featuring case studies from across the globe, Megacities examines recent world-wide trends in poverty and social exclusion, urban violence and politics, and links these to the challenges faced by policy-makers and practitioners."--Publisher description.

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 and index.

ISBN:

9786612473074

9781350221345

1350221341

9781848137318

1848137311

9781282473072

1282473077

9781848134904

1848134908

OCLC:

609855631