Urban Social Movements in the Third World.

This reissue, initially published in 1989, considers the upsurge of locally-based movements attempting to improve living conditions in Third-World cities throughout the 1980s. The book presents qualitative, comparative research on the dynamics and constraints of these urban social movements, in a cr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schuurman, Frans
Otros Autores: Naerssen, Ton Van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Temas:
Cities and towns > Developing countries.
Social movements > Developing countries.
Sociology, Urban > Developing countries.
Squatter settlements > Developing countries.
Cities and towns
Social conditions
Social movements
Sociology, Urban
Squatter settlements
Developing countries > Social conditions.
Developing countries
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE THIRD WORLD; Copyright; Urban Social Movements in the Third World; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Urban social movements: between regressive Utopia and socialist panacea; Chapter 2 Collective organization and action in squatter settlements in Arequipa, Peru; Chapter 3 Neighborhood associations in Buenos Aires: contradictions within contradictions; Chapter 4 Clientelism, competition and poverty: the ineffectiveness of local organizations in a Madras slum
  • Chapter 5 The limits of territorial social movements: the case of housing in KarachiChapter 6 Crossroads: the rise and fall of a squatter movement in Cape Town, South Africa; Chapter 7 Between Utopia and strategy: a case study of a Brazilian urban social movement; Chapter 8 Power and independence: the struggle for identity and integrity in urban social movements; Chapter 9 The Chilean squatter movement and the state; Chapter 10 Continuity and change in the urban poor movement of Manila, the Philippines; Subject index

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