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Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality
In Mexico City, as in many other large cities worldwide, contemporary modes of urban governance have overwhelmingly benefited affluent populations and widened social inequalities. Disinvestment from social housing and rent-seeking developments by real estate companies and land speculators have resulted in the displacement of low-income populations to the urban periphery. Public social spaces have been eliminated to make way for luxury apartments and business interests. Low-income neighbourhoods are often stigmatized by dominant social forces to justify their demolition. The urban poor have however negotiated and resisted these developments in a range of ways. This text explores these urban dynamics in Mexico City and beyond, looking at the material and symbolic mechanisms through which urban marginality is produced and contested. It seeks to understand how things might be otherwise, how the city might be geared towards more inclusive forms of belonging and citizenship.
Courts that Matter
Courts around the world regularly issue rulings on the socioeconomic rights of citizens, but the impact of these decisions varies widely. This book compares the experiences of two very assertive high courts in Colombia and Argentina to examine the differing impacts of landmark socioeconomic rights decisions.
Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South
Environmental changes have significant impacts on people’s lives and livelihoods, particularly the urban poor and those living in informal settlements. In an effort to reduce urban residents’ exposure to climate change and hazards such as natural disasters, resettlement programmes are becoming widespread across the Global South. While resettlement may reduce a region’s future climate-related disaster risk, it often increases poverty and vulnerability, and can be used as a reason to evict people from areas undergoing redevelopment. A collaboration between the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at UCL, the Indian Institute for Human Settlements and the Latin American Social Science Facul...
Coloniality at Large
A state-of-the-art anthology of postcolonial theory and practice in the Latin American context.
Hidden Cities
"The joint WHO and UN-HABITAT report, Hidden cities: unmasking and overcoming health inequities in urban settings, is being released at a turning point in human history. For the first time ever, the majority of the world's population is living in cities, and this proportion continues to grow. Putting this into numbers, in 1990 fewer than 4 in 10 people lived in urban areas. In 2010, more than half live in cities, and by 2050 this proportion will grow to 7 out of every 10 people. The number of urban residents is growing by nearly 60 million every year. This demographic transition from rural to urban, or urbanization, has far-reaching consequences. Urbanization has been associated with overall shifts in the economy, away from agriculture-based activities and towards mass industry, technology and service. High urban densities have reduced transaction costs, made public spending on infrastructure and services more economically viable, and facilitated generation and diffusion of knowledge, all of which have fuelled economic growth"--Page ix.
Local Space, Global Life
This book examines the everyday functioning and impact of international law and the development project, particularly across cities in emergent nations.
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Mitos y realidades de la globalización
CONTENIDO: La globalización : un intento de explicación y de definición / Hugo Fazio Vengoa / - El imperio global y sus guerras locales / Alain Joxe / - La geopolítica de la biodiversidad y el desarrollo sustentable : economización del mundo, racionalidad ambiental y reapropiación social de la naturaleza / Enrique Leff / - Globalización y alternativas : la crisis Argentina y el desarrollo del sistema mundial / Julio C. Gambina / - La globalización financiera : fragilidad, incertidumbre y pobreza / Jorge Ivan González / - Globalización y desarrollo desigual entre Estados Unidos y América Latina / Orlando Caputo L. / - Estado, nación, integración : convergencia o divergencia / Germán Umaña Mendoza / - El Estado, entre las exigencias de los actores globales y las demandas populares de desarrollo : aspectos norte sur / Jean-Phillippe Peemans / - Los dilemas de la integración : ¿nacionalismo o servilismo? / Héctor León Moncayo Salcedo / - Globalización y cultura / Isidro Moreno / - Cosmopol ...
