Beyond the Megacity

New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
Herausgeber: Lukas, Michael; Reis, Nadine

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Produktbeschreibung

Beyond the Megacity reconnects to the Latin American tradition of theorizing urbanization from the margins, moving urban theory closer to the complexity and diversity of urbanization in the Global South.

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Produktdetails

• Global Suburbanisms
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781487509101
• ISBN-10: 1487509103
• Artikelnr.: 62856406

Autorenporträt

Edited by Nadine Reis and Michael Lukas

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Tables
Introduction: Old and New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin
America
Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile and Nadine Reis, El Colegio de México
Part I: Framing Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
1. Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and
Politics in Cities of the Global South
Teresa Caldeira, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2. Urban Community and Resistance
Raul Zibechi, Independent Writer and Journalist, Uruguay
3. Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Super-Cycle in Latin America
Martín Arboleda, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Part II: Metropolitan Peripheries under Financialization and Urban
Extractivism
4. Large-scale Housing in Peripheral Urbanization: Persistence and Change
in Urban Space Production in the Mexico City Megaregion
Clara Salazar, El Colegio de México, Nadine Reis, El Colegio de México, and
Ann Varley, University College London, UK
5. Periurban Satellite Towns in Santiago: The Urbanization by Holdings and
the Paradoxical Happiness of Middle-Class Periurban Dwellers
César Cáceres, Viña del Mar, Chile
6. Financialization and Social Reproduction in the Buenos Aires Urban
Periphery
Liz Mason-Deeze, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Part III: Community, Commoning, and Political Agency on the Urban Margins
7. The Self-Built-City as Palimpsest: (Re)Constructing Urban Memory in
Lima’s Hybrid Peripheries
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
8. Occupy the Periphery: Housing Occupations and the Production of Urban
Commons in Belo Horizonte
João Tonucci and Rodrigo Castriota, Federal University of Minas Gerais,
Brazil
9. Hybrid Livelihoods: Resistant Adaption in Peri-Urban Bolivia
Hannah-Hunt Moeller, University of Michigan, USA
10. Blurring the Urban-Rural Divide: Urban Peripheries as Sites of Food
Sovereignty Construction in Caracas
Christina Schiavoni, International Institute for Social Studies, The
Netherlands and Ana Felicien, Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela
Part IV: Extended Urbanization between New Rurality and Operational
Landscapes
11. Planetary Urbanization, Agro-Exports, and Informality: Making Sense of
the Expanding Peripheries and Emerging Cities in Coastal Ecuador
Gustavo Duran, Jonathan Menoscal, and Manuel Bayón, FLACSO Ecuador
12. Worlding the Atacama Desert: Peripheral Urbanization and Transnational
Resource Extraction Urbanism in Antofagasta, Chile
Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile
13. Planetary Urbanization and Maquiladoras in Motul, Yucatán: Unveiling
Abstract Space in the Ex-City
Claudia Fonseca Alfaro, Malmö University, Sweden
14. Rural Livelihoods, Urbanization, and Incomplete Population Transitions
in Brazil
Alisson F. Barbieri and Ricardo Ojima, Federal University of Minas Gerais,
Brazil/Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN, Brazil
15. The Urbanization of Mexico’s Rural World: A Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Approach
Gabriela Torres-Mazuera, Centro de Estudios Superiores en Antropología
Social, CIESAS, Mexico
Conclusion: Peripheral Urbanization: Current Trends, Methodological
Advances, and the Decolonization of Urban Theory
Nadine Reis, El Colegio de México and Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile
Author Biographies