Locating Right to the City in the Global South

Drawing from scholars with extensive, and very recent, fieldwork experience, this volume covers seventeen cities in thirteen countries across a belt stretching east from Latin America, to Africa and the Middle East, and into Asia. The volume advances our understanding of this process by drawing attention to three defining aspects of the city, according to which its chapters are organized: first, the increasing social polarization and spatial division of the city, and the local expressions of transnational governance driving these developments; second, the refashioning of certain city quarters of the divided city into cosmopolitan landscapes; and, third, the distinctive struggles emerging in response to these changes and the competing visions of the urban future which animate them.

Author: Tony Samara
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/31/2017
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781138108103

About the Author

Tony Roshan Samara is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, USA.

Shenjing He is Professor and Assistant Dean at the School of Geography and Planning, interdisciplinary Urban Research Center at Sun Yat-Sen University, China.

Guo Chen is Assistant Professor of Geography and Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University, USA.