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020			_a9781848132962
082			_a307.76 _bKOO
100			_aKoonings, Kees Ed. _965434
245			_aMegacitites : the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global South
260			_aLondon _bZed Books _c2009
300			_aviii,200p.
505			_aContents 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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700			_aKruijt, Dirk Ed. _965435
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