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Title Megacities : the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global south / edited by Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt
Published London ; New York : Zed Books, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-194) and index
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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 -- Growth -- Congresses
Cities and towns -- Southern Hemisphere -- Growth -- Congresses
Urbanization -- Southern Hemisphere -- Congresses
Urbanization -- Developing countries -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
Cities and towns -- Growth
Marginality, Social
Social conditions
Urban poor
Urban violence
Urbanization
Society.
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.
SUBJECT Developing countries -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Southern Hemisphere -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Subject Developing countries
Southern Hemisphere
Developing countries -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Southern Hemisphere -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Koonings, Kees.
Kruijt, Dirk.
LC no. 2010280514
ISBN 9781848134904
1848134908
1848137311
9781848137318
1282473077
9781282473072
9786612473074
661247307X