ISBN:
9781848131354
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (175 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Leeds, Doctor Elisabeth Fractured Cities : Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America
DDC:
305.5/69098091732
Keywords:
Electronic books. -- local
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Latin America -- Social conditions
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Urban poor -- Latin America
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Urban violence -- Latin America
Abstract:
As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable. Based on empirical evidence, interviews with local people and historical contextualization, the authors attempt to shed light on the fault-lines which have appeared in Latin American society
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the duality of Latin American cityscapes -- 1 | Fractured cities, second-class citizenship and urban violence -- Urban poverty, desborde popular and the erosion of the formal social order -- Conceptualizing exclusion, insecurity and violence -- Armed actors and violence brokers -- The politics of urban violence -- Parallel power and perverse integration -- Notes -- 2 | Rio de Janeiro -- Favela-related violence -- Impact on education -- Motives for involvement in drugs trading -- Police and community - negative dialogues -- Political-administrative constraints -- Police oversight and the lack of political will -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 | Mexico City -- Violence as fact and phantom -- Metropolitan structure and security governance -- Patterns and actors of insecurity and violence -- Governmental and societal responses and strategies -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 4 | Medellín -- A history of urban violence in Medellín -- Daily life under guerrillas and paramilitaries -- A promising peace process with the paramilitaries -- Concluding remarks -- Note -- 5 | Managua -- Barrio Luis Fanor Hernández: past and present -- Drugs, material wealth and conspicuous consumption -- Consumption, cultural exclusion and predation -- Violence and primitive accumulation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 | Caracas -- Divided Caracas -- The advent of violence in Caracas -- Forms of violence -- Fear as an urban sentiment -- The loss of the city -- Democracy and violence in the city -- 7 | Lima Metropolitana -- City of informales -- New social actors and new forms of popular organization -- Low-intensity violence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 | Living in fear: how the urban poor perceive violence, fear and insecurity -- The diversity and complexity of violence among the urban poor
Abstract:
Social fragmentation and spatial restrictions -- The legitimization of violence among the urban poor I -- The legitimization of violence among the urban poor II -- Non-violent coping: a gendered response -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Epilogue: Latin America's urban duality revisited -- About the authors -- Bibliography -- Index
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