Beyond the Megacity
New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
Published on 15. April 2022
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-1-4875-0910-1 (ISBN)
Description
Beyond the Megacity connects and reconnects the global debate on the contemporary urban condition to the Latin American tradition of seeing, considering, and theorizing urbanization from the margins. It develops the approach of "peripheral urbanization" as a way to integrate the theoretical agendas belonging to global suburbanisms, neo-Marxist accounts of planetary urbanization, and postcolonial urban studies, and to move urban theory closer to the complexity and diversity of urbanization in the Global South.
From an interdisciplinary perspective, Beyond the Megacity investigates the natures, causes, implications, and politics of current urbanization processes in Latin America. The book draws on case studies from various countries across the region, covering theoretical and disciplinary approaches from the fields of geography, anthropology, sociology, urban studies, agrarian studies, and urban and regional planning, and is written by academics, journalists, practitioners, and scholar-activists. Beyond the Megacity unites these unique perspectives by shifting attention to the places, processes, practices, and bodies of knowledge that have often been neglected in the past.
From an interdisciplinary perspective, Beyond the Megacity investigates the natures, causes, implications, and politics of current urbanization processes in Latin America. The book draws on case studies from various countries across the region, covering theoretical and disciplinary approaches from the fields of geography, anthropology, sociology, urban studies, agrarian studies, and urban and regional planning, and is written by academics, journalists, practitioners, and scholar-activists. Beyond the Megacity unites these unique perspectives by shifting attention to the places, processes, practices, and bodies of knowledge that have often been neglected in the past.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
31 b&w illustrations, 11 b7w maps,1 b&w figure, 8 b&w tables
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-0910-1 (9781487509101)
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Persons
Nadine Reis is a professor at the Centre for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies (CEDUA) at El Colegio de Mexico.
Michael Lukas is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the Universidad de Chile.
Michael Lukas is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the Universidad de Chile.
Content
Illustrations
Tables
Introduction: Old and New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile and Nadine Reis, El Colegio de Mexico
Part I: Framing Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
1. Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global South
Teresa Caldeira, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2. Urban Community and Resistance
Raul Zibechi, Independent Writer and Journalist, Uruguay
3. Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Super-Cycle in Latin America
Martin Arboleda, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Part II: Metropolitan Peripheries under Financialization and Urban Extractivism
4. Large-scale Housing in Peripheral Urbanization: Persistence and Change in Urban Space Production in the Mexico City Megaregion
Clara Salazar, El Colegio de Mexico, Nadine Reis, El Colegio de Mexico, and Ann Varley, University College London, UK
5. Periurban Satellite Towns in Santiago: The Urbanization by Holdings and the Paradoxical Happiness of Middle-Class Periurban Dwellers
Cesar Caceres, Vina del Mar, Chile
6. Financialization and Social Reproduction in the Buenos Aires Urban Periphery
Liz Mason-Deeze, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Part III: Community, Commoning, and Political Agency on the Urban Margins
7. The Self-Built-City as Palimpsest: (Re)Constructing Urban Memory in Lima's Hybrid Peripheries
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
8. Occupy the Periphery: Housing Occupations and the Production of Urban Commons in Belo Horizonte
Joao Tonucci and Rodrigo Castriota, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
9. Hybrid Livelihoods: Resistant Adaption in Peri-Urban Bolivia
Hannah-Hunt Moeller, University of Michigan, USA
10. Blurring the Urban-Rural Divide: Urban Peripheries as Sites of Food Sovereignty Construction in Caracas
Christina Schiavoni, International Institute for Social Studies, The Netherlands and Ana Felicien, Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela
Part IV: Extended Urbanization between New Rurality and Operational Landscapes
11. Planetary Urbanization, Agro-Exports, and Informality: Making Sense of the Expanding Peripheries and Emerging Cities in Coastal Ecuador
Gustavo Duran, Jonathan Menoscal, and Manuel Bayon, FLACSO Ecuador
12. Worlding the Atacama Desert: Peripheral Urbanization and Transnational Resource Extraction Urbanism in Antofagasta, Chile
Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile
13. Planetary Urbanization and Maquiladoras in Motul, Yucatan: Unveiling Abstract Space in the Ex-City
Claudia Fonseca Alfaro, Malmoe University, Sweden
14. Rural Livelihoods, Urbanization, and Incomplete Population Transitions in Brazil
Alisson F. Barbieri and Ricardo Ojima, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil/Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN, Brazil
15. The Urbanization of Mexico's Rural World: A Socio-Cultural Anthropology Approach
Gabriela Torres-Mazuera, Centro de Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, CIESAS, Mexico
Conclusion: Peripheral Urbanization: Current Trends, Methodological Advances, and the Decolonization of Urban Theory
Nadine Reis, El Colegio de Mexico and Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile
Author Biographies
Tables
Introduction: Old and New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile and Nadine Reis, El Colegio de Mexico
Part I: Framing Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
1. Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global South
Teresa Caldeira, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2. Urban Community and Resistance
Raul Zibechi, Independent Writer and Journalist, Uruguay
3. Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Super-Cycle in Latin America
Martin Arboleda, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Part II: Metropolitan Peripheries under Financialization and Urban Extractivism
4. Large-scale Housing in Peripheral Urbanization: Persistence and Change in Urban Space Production in the Mexico City Megaregion
Clara Salazar, El Colegio de Mexico, Nadine Reis, El Colegio de Mexico, and Ann Varley, University College London, UK
5. Periurban Satellite Towns in Santiago: The Urbanization by Holdings and the Paradoxical Happiness of Middle-Class Periurban Dwellers
Cesar Caceres, Vina del Mar, Chile
6. Financialization and Social Reproduction in the Buenos Aires Urban Periphery
Liz Mason-Deeze, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Part III: Community, Commoning, and Political Agency on the Urban Margins
7. The Self-Built-City as Palimpsest: (Re)Constructing Urban Memory in Lima's Hybrid Peripheries
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
8. Occupy the Periphery: Housing Occupations and the Production of Urban Commons in Belo Horizonte
Joao Tonucci and Rodrigo Castriota, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
9. Hybrid Livelihoods: Resistant Adaption in Peri-Urban Bolivia
Hannah-Hunt Moeller, University of Michigan, USA
10. Blurring the Urban-Rural Divide: Urban Peripheries as Sites of Food Sovereignty Construction in Caracas
Christina Schiavoni, International Institute for Social Studies, The Netherlands and Ana Felicien, Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela
Part IV: Extended Urbanization between New Rurality and Operational Landscapes
11. Planetary Urbanization, Agro-Exports, and Informality: Making Sense of the Expanding Peripheries and Emerging Cities in Coastal Ecuador
Gustavo Duran, Jonathan Menoscal, and Manuel Bayon, FLACSO Ecuador
12. Worlding the Atacama Desert: Peripheral Urbanization and Transnational Resource Extraction Urbanism in Antofagasta, Chile
Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile
13. Planetary Urbanization and Maquiladoras in Motul, Yucatan: Unveiling Abstract Space in the Ex-City
Claudia Fonseca Alfaro, Malmoe University, Sweden
14. Rural Livelihoods, Urbanization, and Incomplete Population Transitions in Brazil
Alisson F. Barbieri and Ricardo Ojima, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil/Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN, Brazil
15. The Urbanization of Mexico's Rural World: A Socio-Cultural Anthropology Approach
Gabriela Torres-Mazuera, Centro de Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, CIESAS, Mexico
Conclusion: Peripheral Urbanization: Current Trends, Methodological Advances, and the Decolonization of Urban Theory
Nadine Reis, El Colegio de Mexico and Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile
Author Biographies