Cities From Scratch : Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America /

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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-rel...

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Autres auteurs: Auyero, Javier (Éditeur intellectuel), McCann, Bryan, 1968- (Éditeur intellectuel), Fischer, Brodwyn M. (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Marginality, Social > Latin America.
Urban poor > Latin America.
Slums > Latin America.
Urban poor.
Slums.
Marginality, Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
15.85 history of America.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Amerique latine.
Latijns-Amerika.
Latin America.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 economi.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (301 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780822377498

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