TY  - GEN
AU  - Koonings, Kees Ed.
AU  - Kruijt, Dirk Ed.
TI  - Megacitites : the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global South
SN  - 9781848132962
U1  - 307.76 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Zed Books
KW  -  
N1  - Contents
Figures and tables  vi
Acknowledgements  vii
About the authors  viii
Introduction   1
1. The Rise of Megacities and the Urbanization of Informality, Exclusion and Violence - Dirk Kruijt & Kees Koonings     8
Part I: The Social Dynamics of Exclusion and Violence in Megacities
2. From Popular Movements to Drug Gangs to Militias: An Anatomy of Violence in Rio de Janeiro by Robert Gay  29
3. Megacity's Violence and its Consequences in Rio de Janeiro by Janice Perlman 52
4. Coping with Urban Violence: State and Community Responses to Crime and Insecurity in Guayaquil, Ecuador by Caroline Moser  69
5. Middle Eastern Megacities: Social Exclusion, Popular Movements and the Quiet Encroachment of the Urban Poor by Asef Bayat  82
Part II: Political and Policy Dimensions of Urban Exclusion and Violence
6. Urban Governance and the Paradox of Conflict by Jo Beall   107
7. Shoot the Citizen, Save the Customer: Participatory Budgeting and Bare  Citizenship in Porto Alegre, Brazil by Sérgio Gregório Baierle   120
8. Crisis of the State, Violence in the City by Mariano Aguirre    141
9. Urban Exclusion and the (False) Assumptions of Spatial Policy Reform in South Africa by Susan Parnell and Owen Crankshaw   153
Conclusions: Governing Exclusion and Violence in Megacities by Kees Koonings & Dirk Kruijt     171
Bibliography    178
Index   195


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