CONTENTS Preface vii Prologue/Dialogue Urban Informality: Crossing Borders I Nezar AlSayyad and Ananya Roy I. Urban Informality as a New Way of Life 7 Nezar AlSayyad PART I: LIBERALIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND URBAN INFORMALITY 2. Love in the Time of Enhanced Capital Flows: Reflections on the 33 Links between Liberalization and Informality Alan Gilbert 3. The Changing Nature of the Informal Sector in Karachi due to 67 Global Restructuring and Liberalization, and Its Repercussions Arif Hasan 4 Globalization and the Politics of the Informals in the Global South 79 Asef Bayat PART II: THE POLITICS OF URBAN INFORMALITIES 5. Marginality: From Myth to Reality in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 105 1969-2002 Janice E. Perltman 6. The Gentlemen's City: Urban Informality in the Calcutta 147 of New Communism Ananya Roy 7 Tilting at Sphinxes: Locating Urban Informality in Egyptian Cities 171 Ahmed M. Soliman 8. Control, Resistance, and Informality: Urban Ethnocracy in 209 Beer-Sheva, Israel Oren Yiftachel and Haim Yakobi PART III: TRANSNATIONAL INTERROGATION 9. Informality of Housing Production at the Urban-Rural Interface: 243 The Not So Strange Case of the Texas Colonias Peter M. Ward IO. Power, Property, and Poverty. Why De Soto's Mystery of Capital 271 Cannot Be Solved Ray Bromley II. Transnational Trespassings: The Geopolitics of Urban Informality 289 Ananya Roy Selected Bibliography 319 Index 323 Contributors 337