Urban informality : transnational perspectives from the middle East, lain America, and South Asia

By:

Roy, Ananya Ed

Contributor(s):

AlSayyad, Nezar Ed

Series: Transnational perspectives on space and place Ed. by Nezar AlSayyadPublication details: Oxford Lexington Books 2004Description: viii,338pISBN:

9780739107416

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

307.76 ROY

Contents:

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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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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