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

Other author/creatorKoonings, Kees.
Other author/creatorKruijt, Dirk.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Zed Books,
Descriptionviii, 200 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
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.
Developing countries--Social conditions --Congresses.
Southern Hemisphere--Social conditions --Congresses.
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.
General note"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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 178-194) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010280514
ISBN9781848132962 (pb)
ISBN1848132964 (pb)
ISBN9781848132955 (hb)
ISBN1848132956 (hb)
ISBN9781848134904 (eb)
ISBN1848134908 (eb)

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