Megacities : the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global south - Koonings, Kees; Kruijt, Dirk (London : Zed Books, 2009)
The rise of megacities and the urbanization of informality, exclusion and violence / Dirk Kruijt and Kees Koonings -- From popular movements to drug gangs to militias : an anatomy of violence in Rio de Janeiro / Robert Gay -- Megacity's violence and its consequences in Rio de Janeiro / Janice Perlman -- Coping with urban violence : state and community responses to crime and insecurity in Guayaquil, Ecuador / Caroline Moser -- Middle Eastern megacities : social exclusion, popular movements and the quiet encroachment of the urban poor / Asef Bayat -- Urban governance and the paradox of conflict / Jo Beall -- Shoot the citizen, save the customer : participatory budgeting and bare citizenship in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Sgio Baierle -- Crisis of the state, violence in the city / Mariano Aguirre -- Urban exclusion and the (false) assumptions of spatial policy reform in South Africa / Susan Parnell and Owen Crankshaw -- Conclusions : governing exclusion and violence in megacities / Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt.
'The chapters of this book were originally presented as draft papers at the conference'The politics of urban poverty, exclusion and violence: comparative analysis and policy insights,' organized in The Hague on 27 and 28 September 2007'--P. vii.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-194) and index
Keywords: Urban poor -- Developing countries -- Congresses; Urban poor -- Southern Hemisphere -- Congresses; Marginality, Social -- Developing countries -- Congresses; Marginality, Social -- Southern Hemisphere -- Congresses; Urban violence -- Developing countries -- Congresses; Urban violence -- Southern Hemisphere -- Congresses; Cities and towns -- Developing countries -- Growth -- Congresses; Cities and towns -- Southern Hemisphere -- Growth -- Congresses; Urbanization -- Southern Hemisphere -- Congresses; Urbanization -- Developing countries -- Congresses; Developing countries -- Social conditions -- Congresses; Southern Hemisphere -- Social conditions -- Congresses