Urban Informality · Transnational Perspectives From the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia by Roy, Ananya -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON SPACE AND PLACE Table of Contents PREFACE PROLOGUE/DIALOGUE Urban Informality: Crossing Borders1 NOTE 1 Urban Informality as a “New” Way of Life

URBAN INFORMALITY: A HISTORIOGRAPHY URBAN INFORMALITY: A TYPOLOGY OTHER INFORMALITIES LIBERALIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND URBAN INFORMALITY THE POLITICS OF URBAN INFORMALITIES TRANSNATIONAL INTERROGATION INFORMALITY: AN OLD URBAN MODE OR A “NEW” WAY OF LIFE NOTES

WHAT IS LIBERALIZATION? WHAT IS INFORMALITY AND INFORMALIZATION? IS LIBERALIZATION GOOD FOR YOU? IS INFORMALIZATION GOOD FOR YOU? LINKS BETWEEN LIBERALIZATION AND THE INFORMAL SECTOR IN LATIN AMERICA THE EFFECTS OF TRADE LIBERALIZATION ON INFORMALITY — EXPORTS THE EFFECTS OF TRADE LIBERALIZATION ON INFORMALITY — IMPORTS CAPITAL FLOWS AND INFORMALITY GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC POLICIES AND INFORMALITY ECONOMIC GROWTH AND INFORMALITY LIBERALIZATION AND INFORMAL HOUSING CONCLUSION NOTES

THE EMERGENCE OF THE INFORMAL SECTOR IN KARACHI ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION IN PAKISTAN CHANGING LIFESTYLES IN AN ERA OF LIBERALIZATION NEW INFORMALITIES IN AN ERA OF LIBERALIZATION OLD INFORMALITIES IN AN ERA OF LIBERALIZATION A CONCLUDING NOTE NOTES

4 Globalization and the Politics of the Informals in the Global South

PREVAILING PERSPECTIVES THE PASSIVE POOR SURVIVAL STRATEGY THE URBAN TERRITORIAL MOVEMENT EVERYDAY RESISTANCE THE QUIET ENCROACHMENT OF THE ORDINARY BECOMING POLITICAL CONCLUSIONS NOTES

PART II THE POLITICS OF URBAN INFORMALITIES 5 Marginality: From Myth to Reality in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969–2002

FAVELA GROWTH IN RIO DE JANEIRO THREE LIVES: FOUR GENERATIONS “TWICE DISPLACED”: THE STORY OF MARGARIDA “LEFT BEHIND”: THE STORY OF ZÉ CABO “NO MORE FRUIT ON THE TABLE”: THE STORY OF DJANIRA A COMPLEX PICTURE THE METAMORPHOSIS OF MARGINALITY THE MYTH OF MARGINALITY NEW MEANINGS OF MARGINALITY NEW RESPONSES TO MARGINALITY THE FRAMING OF FEAR LEVEL OF LIVING, MOBILITY, AND THE INCREASE IN INEQUALITY DISILLUSIONMENT WITH DEMOCRACY AGENCY AND OPTIMISM FURTHER RESEARCH QUESTIONS NOTES

6 The Gentleman’s City: Urban Informality in the Calcutta of New Communism

URBAN DEVELOPMENTALISM THE UNMAPPING OF CALCUTTA THE DAILY RENEWAL OF LEGITIMACY NOTES

7 Tilting at Sphinxes: Locating Urban Informality in Egyptian Cities

THE EGYPTIAN URBANIZATION PROCESS THE EMERGENCE OF URBAN INFORMALITY POLITICAL STRAIN EVOLVING CONCEPTS OF INFORMALITY CAUSES OF INFORMALITY IN EGYPT CHARACTERISTICS OF INFORMAL HOUSING IN EGYPT AGRICULTURAL LAND SUBDIVISION CLAIMING LAND IN DESERT AREAS THE IMPORTANCE OF MOSQUES IN INFORMAL DEVELOPMENT LAND MECHANISMS AND ACTORS ACTORS IN INFORMAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONS IN DESERT LAND SETTLEMENT LAND TRANSACTIONS INFORMAL HOUSING TYPES SEMI-INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS (TYPE A) SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS (TYPE B) EXFORMAL (HYBRID) SETTLEMENTS (TYPE c) QUANTIFICATION OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES IN INFORMAL/EXFORMAL AREAS RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT NOTES

8 Control, Resistance, and Informality: Urban Ethnocracy in Beer-Sheva, Israel

THEORETICAL ASPECTS: ETHNOCRATIC STATES AND URBAN INFORMALITY ETHNOCRATIC CITIES AND REGIMES THE MAKING OF ETHNOCRACY IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE THE BEER-SHEVA URBAN REGION: ETHNOCRATIC MANAGEMENT AND URBAN INFORMALITY THE BEDOUIN ARABS, AND THE JUDAIZATION OF THE BEER-SHEVA REGION CONSOLIDATING URBAN ETHNOCRACY: PLANNING FOR THE BEDOUIN ARABS POLICY ENFORCEMENT AND PERSISTING INFORMALITY PERSISTING ETHNOCRATIC MYOPIA AND LOCAL RESISTANCE A CONCLUDING COMMENT NOTES

URBAN INFORMALITY: LEARNING FROM ELSEWHERE TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSBORDER INFORMALITY: REPRODUCING INEQUALITY? MISCONSTRUING URBAN INFORMALITY: THE TEXAS CASE COLONIAS: A NOT SO STRANGE CASE INFORMALITY IN THE PROCESS OF LAND PRODUCTION AND OCCUPATION JURSIDICTIONAL “SOFTNESS” AND INFORMALITY INFORMALITY OF PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES SELF-HELP OR SELF-MANAGED HOUSING? THE RELATIVE ABSENCE OF FORMAL SOCIAL SERVICES THE DIRECTION OF PUBLIC POLICY POLICY IMPERATIVES FOR TEXAS COLONIAS INFORMAL HOUSING PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: THE BIG PICTURE NOTES

THREE KEY METAPHORS THE MAGIC OF FINANCE CAPITAL THE INADEQUACY OF DUALISM THE MISSING RULE OF LAW SPURIOUS PRECISION EYES OPEN, READING HISTORY EPILOGUE: A CREDIBLE FUTURE NOTES

11 Transnational Trespassings: The Geopolitics of Urban Informality

GENEALOGIES OF REPRESENTATION THE GEOPOLITICS OF DESIRE THE SEDUCTION OF SQUATTING THE PROMISE OF “THE RATIONAL CITY”62 THE IDEOLOGY OF SPACE THE TRANSNATIONAL TRANSACTION

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