Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South AsiaAnanya Roy, Nezar AlSayyad The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends. The contributions reveal that informal housing is no longer the domain of the urban poor; rather it is a significant zone of transactions for the middle-class and even transnational elites. Indeed, the book presents a rich view of "urban informality" as a system of regulations and norms that governs the use of space and makes possible new forms of social and political power. The book is organized as a "transnational" endeavor. It brings together three regional domains of research--the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia--that are rarely in conversation with one another. It also unsettles the hierarchy of development and underdevelopment by looking at some First World processes of informality through a Third World research lens. |
Contents
Urban Informality as a New Way of Life | 7 |
LIBERALIZATION GLOBALIZATION AND URBAN INFORMALITY | 31 |
Love in the Time of Enhanced Capital Flows Reflections on the Links between Liberalization and Informality | 33 |
The Changing Nature of the Informal Sector in Karachi due to Global Restructuring and Liberalization and Its Repercussions | 67 |
Globalization and the Politics of the Informals in the Global South | 79 |
THE POLITICS OF URBAN INFORMALITIES | 103 |
Marginality From Myth to Reality in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro 19692002 | 105 |
The Gentlemans City Urban Informality in the Calcutta of New Communism | 147 |
Control Resistance and Informality Urban Ethnocracy in BeerSheva Israel | 209 |
TRANSNATIONAL INTERROGATION | 241 |
Informality of Housing Production at the Urban Rural Interface The Not So Strange Case of the Texas Colonias | 243 |
Power Property and Poverty Why De Sotos Mystery of Capital Cannot Be Solved | 271 |
Transnational Trespassings The Geopolitics of Urban Informality | 289 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 319 |
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CONTRIBUTORS | 337 |
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