Research Catalog

Title

Urban informality : transnational perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia / edited by Ananya Roy and Nezar AlSayyad.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books ; Berkeley, Calif. : Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California at Berkeley, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Roy, Ananya
• AlSayyad, Nezar

Description

viii, 338 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

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 these trends. The contributions reveal that informal housing is no longer the domain of the urban poor; rather it is a significant zone of transactions for the middle-class and even transnational elites. Indeed, the book presents a rich view of "urban informality" as a system of regulations and norms that governs the use of space and makes possible new forms of social and political power. The book is organized as a "transnational" endeavor. It brings together three regional domains of research--the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia--that are rarely in conversation with one another. It also unsettles the hierarchy of development and underdevelopment by looking at some First World processes of informality through a Third World research lens.

Series Statement

Transnational perspectives on space and place

Uniform Title

Transnational perspectives on space and place.

Subjects

• Aufsatzsammlung
• Informal sector (Economics)
• Land use, Urban > Social aspects
• Squatter settlements
• Urbanization > South Asia
• Urbanization > Latin America
• Urbanization > Middle East
• Urbanization > Economic aspects

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-322) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Prologue/dialogue, Urban informality : crossing borders / Nezar AlSayyad and Ananya Roy -- Urban informality as a "new" way of life / Nezar AlSayyad -- Love in the time of enhanced capital flows : reflections on the links between liberalization and informality / Alan Gilbert -- Changing nature of the informal sector in Karachi due to global restructuring and liberalization, and its repercussions / Arif Hasan -- Globalization and the politics of the informals in the global South / Asef Bayat.
• Marginality : from myth to reality in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969-2002 / Janice E. Perlman -- Gentlemen's city : urban informality in the Calcutta of New Communism / Ananya Roy -- Tilting at sphinxes : locating urban informality in Egyptian cities / Ahmed M. Soliman -- Control, resistance, and informality : urban ethnocracy in Beer-Sheva, Israel / Oren Yiftachel and Haim Yakobi -- Informality of housing production at the urban-rural interface : the "not so strange case" of the Texas colonias / Peter M. Ward -- Power, property, and poverty : why De Soto's "Mystery of Capital" cannot be solved / Ray Bromley.
• Transnational trespassings : the geopolitics of urban informality / Ananya Roy.

ISBN

• 0739107402 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739107410 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003054619

OCLC

• 52559155
• SCSB-11828000

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library