Urban Informality Transnational Perspectives

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 how these trends make new forms of social and political power possible.

Preface

vii

Prologue/Dialogue Urban Informality: Crossing Borders

1

(6)

Nezar AlSayyad

Ananya Roy

Urban Informality as a ``New'' Way of Life

7

(26)

Nezar AlSayyad

PART I: LIBERALIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND URBAN INFORMALITY

Love in the Time of Enhanced Capital Flows: Reflections on the Links between Liberalization and Informality

33

(34)

Alan Gilbert

The Changing Nature of the Informal Sector in Karachi due to Global Restructuring and Liberalization, and Its Repercussions

67

(12)

Arif Hasan

Globalization and the Politics of the Informals in the Global South

79

(26)

Asef Bayat

PART II: THE POLITICS OF URBAN INFORMALITIES

Marginality: From Myth to Reality in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969--2002

105

(42)

Janice E. Perlman

The Gentlemen's City: Urban Informality in the Calcutta of New Communism

147

(24)

Ananya Roy

Tilting at Sphinxes: Locating Urban Informality in Egyptian Cities

171

(38)

Ahmed M. Soliman

Control, Resistance, and Informality: Urban Ethnocracy in Beer-Sheva, Israel

209

(34)

Oren Yiftachel

Haim Yakobi

PART III: TRANSNATIONAL INTERROGATION

Informality of Housing Production at the Urban-Rural Interface: The ``Not So Strange Case'' of the Texas Colonias

243

(28)

Peter M. Ward

Power, Property, and Poverty: Why De Soto's ``Mystery of Capital'' Cannot Be Solved

271

(18)

Ray Bromley

Transnational Trespassings: The Geopolitics of Urban Informality

289

(30)

Ananya Roy

Selected Bibliography

319

(4)

Index

323

(14)

Contributors

337

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