TY  - GEN
AU  - Roy, Ananya Ed.
AU  - AlSayyad, Nezar Ed.
TI  - Urban informality : transnational perspectives from the middle East, lain America, and South Asia
SN  - 9780739107416
U1  - 307.76 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  -  
N1  - 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
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