Urban informality : transnational perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia
Title:
Urban informality : transnational perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia
Author:
Roy, Ananya.
ISBN:
9780739107409
9780739107416
Publication Information:
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books c2004.
Physical Description:
viii, 338 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series:
Transnational perspectives on space and place
Series Title:
Transnational perspectives on space and place
Contents:
Urban informality : crossing borders / Urban informality as a "new" way of life / Love in the time of enhanced capital flows : reflections on the links between liberalization and informality / Changing nature of the informal sector in Karachi due to global restructuring and liberalization, and its repercussions / Globalization and the politics of the informals in the global South
Marginality : from myth to reality in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969-2002 / Gentlemen's city : urban informality in the Calcutta of New Communism / Tilting at sphinxes : locating urban informality in Egyptian cities / Control, resistance, and informality : urban ethnocracy in Beer-Sheva, Israel / Informality of housing production at the urban-rural interface : the "not so strange case" of the Texas colonias / Power, property, and poverty : why De Soto's "Mystery of Capital" cannot be solved
Transnational trespassings : the geopolitics of urban informality