Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place)

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. 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. Edited By Ananya Roy And Nezar Alsayyad. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [319]-322) And Index.