Urban Informality Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia,9780739107409

Urban Informality Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia

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ISBN13: 9780739107409
ISBN10: 0739107402
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-11-22
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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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.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Prologue/Dialogue Urban Informality: Crossing Borders 1(6)
Nezar AlSayyad
Ananya Roy
Urban Informality as a ``New'' Way of Life
7(26)
Nezar AlSayyad
PART I: LIBERALIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND URBAN INFORMALITY
Love in the Time of Enhanced Capital Flows: Reflections on the Links between Liberalization and Informality
33(34)
Alan Gilbert
The Changing Nature of the Informal Sector in Karachi due to Global Restructuring and Liberalization, and Its Repercussions
67(12)
Arif Hasan
Globalization and the Politics of the Informals in the Global South
79(26)
Asef Bayat
PART II: THE POLITICS OF URBAN INFORMALITIES
Marginality: From Myth to Reality in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969--2002
105(42)
Janice E. Perlman
The Gentlemen's City: Urban Informality in the Calcutta of New Communism
147(24)
Ananya Roy
Tilting at Sphinxes: Locating Urban Informality in Egyptian Cities
171(38)
Ahmed M. Soliman
Control, Resistance, and Informality: Urban Ethnocracy in Beer-Sheva, Israel
209(34)
Oren Yiftachel
Haim Yakobi
PART III: TRANSNATIONAL INTERROGATION
Informality of Housing Production at the Urban-Rural Interface: The ``Not So Strange Case'' of the Texas Colonias
243(28)
Peter M. Ward
Power, Property, and Poverty: Why De Soto's ``Mystery of Capital'' Cannot Be Solved
271(18)
Ray Bromley
Transnational Trespassings: The Geopolitics of Urban Informality
289(30)
Ananya Roy
Selected Bibliography 319(4)
Index 323(14)
Contributors 337

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