Miraftab / Wilson / Salo Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-134-52103-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

Cities continue to be key sites for the production and contestation of inequalities generated by an ongoing but troubled neoliberal project. Neoliberalism’s onslaught across the globe now shapes diverse inequalities -- poverty, segregation, racism, social exclusion, homelessness -- as city inhabitants feel the brunt of privatization, state re-organization, and punishing social policy. This book examines the relationship between persistent neoliberalism and the production and contestation of inequalities in cities across the world. Case studies of current city realities reveal a richly place-specific and generalizable neoliberal condition that further deepens the economic, social, and political relations that give rise to diverse inequalities. Diverse cases also show how people struggle against a neoliberal ethos and hence the open-endedness of futures in these cities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miraftab, Faranak

Wilson, David

Salo, Ken

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Editors Part I. Urban Inequalities Across the World 1. Social Sustainability and Urban Inequality: Detroit and the Ravages of Neoliberalism David Fasenfest 2. New Inequalities in America’s Rust Belt David Wilson and Faranak Miraftab 3. From "Free-Market" Slums to Public Housing and Back Again: The Politics of Relocating Atlanta’s Poor Katherine Hankins, Mechelle Puckett, Deirdre Oakley, Erin Ruel 4. Socio-Spatial Inequality and Violence in Cities of the Global South: Evidence from Latin America Diane E. Davis 5. "City-Doubles:" Re-Urbanism in Africa Martin J. Murray 6. New Forms of Housing and Urban Inequalities in Postsocialist Eastern Europe Virág Molnár 7. Small Cities, Big Issues: Indian Cities in the Debates on Urban Poverty and Inequality Neema Kudva 8. The Paradox of Weiquan Movements: Social Inequality and Individual Negotiation in Land Development in Urban China Mi Shih Part II. Resistances and Insurgencies: Thoughts and Possibilities 9. Urban Insurgencies and the Re-Politicization of the Unequal City Erik Swyngedouw 10. Equality at the Beginning: Rancière and Democracy Today Mark Purcell 11. Arts of Resistance: Seeing and Shaping the Struggle Ryan Griffis and Sarah Ross 12. Local Practices and Trans-local Solidarities: Reflections on Anti-Eviction Practices on the Cape Flats, South Africa, and in Southside Chicago, Illinois Ken Salo