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This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related violence, modernization and development theories, populist or revolutionary politics, or debates about the cultures of poverty. Yet shantytowns have proven both more durable and more multifaceted than any of these perspectives foresaw. Far from being accidental offshoots of more dynamic economic and political developments, they are now a permanent and integral part of Latin America's urban societies, critical to struggles over democratization, economic transformation, identity politics, and the drugs and arms trades. Integrating historical, cultural, and social scientific methodologies, this collection brings together recent research from across Latin America, from the informal neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, Managua and Buenos Aires. Amid alarmist exposes, Cities from Scratch intervenes by considering Latin American shantytowns at a new level of interdisciplinary complexity.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Cities From Scratch
• Author: Brodwyn Fischer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780822355335
• ISBN: 0822355337
• ID: 04939714
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Weight: 418 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 153 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. February 2014

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