Squatters And The Politics Of Marginality In Uruguay

Author : María José Álvarez-Rivadulla
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319545349

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Squatters and the Politics of Marginality in Uruguay by María José Álvarez-Rivadulla Pdf

This book unveils the political economy of land squatting in a third world city, Montevideo, in Uruguay. It focuses on the effects of democratization on the mobilization of the poorest as well as on the role played by different types of brokers, from radical Catholic priests to local leaders embedded in political networks. Through a multi-method endeavour that combines ethnography, historical sources, and quantitative time series, the author reconstructs the history of the informal city since the late 1940s to the present. From a social movements/contentious politics perspective, the book challenges the assumption that socioeconomic factors such as poverty were the only causes triggering land squatting.

Author : Chandan Deuskar
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781512823103

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Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics by Chandan Deuskar Pdf

In many rapidly urbanizing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, local politics undermines the effectiveness of urban planning. Politicians have incentives to ignore formal urban plans and sideline planners, and instead provide urban land and services through informal channels in order to cultivate political constituencies (a form of what political scientists refer to as “clientelism”). This results in inequitable and environmentally damaging patterns of urban growth in some of the largest and most rapidly urbanizing countries in the world. The technocratic planning solutions often advocated by governments and international development organizations are not enough. To overcome this problem, urban planners must understand and adapt to the complex politics of urban informality. In this book, Chandan Deuskar explores how politicians in developing democracies provide urban land and services to the urban poor in exchange for their political support, demonstrates how this impacts urban growth, and suggests innovative and practical ways in which urban planners can try to be more effective in this challenging political context. He draws on literature from multiple disciplines (urban planning, political science, sociology, anthropology, and others), statistical analysis of global data on urbanization, and an in-depth case study of urban Ghana. Urban planners and international development experts working in the Global South, as well as researchers, educators, and students of global urbanization will find Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics informative and thought-provoking.

Author : Daniel Renfrew
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520968240

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Life without Lead by Daniel Renfrew Pdf

Life without Lead examines the social, political, and environmental dimensions of a devastating lead poisoning epidemic. Drawing from a political ecology of health perspective, the book situates the Uruguayan lead contamination crisis in relation to neoliberal reform, globalization, and the resurgence of the political Left in Latin America. The author traces the rise of an environmental social justice movement, and the local and transnational circulation of environmental ideologies and contested science. Through fine-grained ethnographic analysis, this book shows how combating contamination intersected with class politics, explores the relationship of lead poisoning to poverty, and debates the best way to identify and manage an unprecedented local environmental health problem.

Author : Tim Bartley
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787564299

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The Politics of Land by Tim Bartley Pdf

This volume renews the political sociology of land. Chapters examine dynamics of political control and contention in a range of settings, including land grabs in Asia and Africa, expulsions and territorial control in South America, environmental regulation in Europe, and controversies over fracking, gentrification, and property taxes in the USA.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811202223

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Political Economy Of The Brics Countries, The (In 3 Volumes) by Anonim Pdf

Over the past 20 years, social scientists, government officials, and investors have expressed mounting interest in the BRICS countries, which include Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. These countries are widely viewed as both key actors in the global economy and important regional powers. The Political Economy of the BRICS Countries is a three-volume set that aims to address various crucial issues regarding these countries.Volume 1 analyzes whether economic growth in the BRICS countries has been broad-based and promoted equitable economic and social outcomes. The authors examine specific dimensions of growth in these five economies that constrain their ability to act effectively and cohesively in international affairs.Volume 2 considers how the BRICS have affected global economic governance and the international political economy.Volume 3 provides various approaches to economic informality in the BRICS. Moreover, the chapters deal with several connections between informality and important political, economic, and institutional phenomena such as economic globalization and international aid, economic development, political regimes, social capital, political networks and political participation, labor market rules, and social policy preferences.The BRICS countries have attracted rising attention over the past two decades. The volumes provide an in-depth analysis of various key issues regarding these countries and chart a course for future research.

Author : Javier Auyero
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477328996

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Portraits of Persistence by Javier Auyero Pdf

Profiles of triumph and hardship amid massive inequality in Latin America.

Author : Diana Kapiszewski,Steven Levitsky,Deborah J. Yashar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108842044

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The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies by Diana Kapiszewski,Steven Levitsky,Deborah J. Yashar Pdf

This volume analyzes how enduring democracy amid longstanding inequality engendered inclusionary reform in contemporary Latin America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190870362

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The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements by Anonim Pdf

Since the re-democratization of much of Latin America in the 1980s and a regional wave of anti-austerity protests in the 1990s, social movement studies has become an important part of sociological, political, and anthropological scholarship on the region. The subdiscipline has framed debates about formal and informal politics, spatial and relational processes, as well as economic changes in Latin America. While there is an abundant literature on particular movements in different countries across the region, there is limited coverage of the approaches, debates, and theoretical understandings of social movement studies applied to Latin America. In The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements, Federico M. Rossi presents a survey of the broad range of theoretical perspectives on social movements in Latin America. Bringing together a wide variety of viewpoints, the Handbook includes five sections: theoretical approaches to social movements, as applied to Latin America; processes and dynamics of social movements; major social movements in the region; ideational and strategic dimensions of social movements; and the relationship between political institutions and social movements. Covering key social movements and social dynamics in Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements is an indispensable reference for any scholar interested in social movements, protest, contentious politics, and Latin American studies.

Author : Patrick Le Galès,Jennifer Robinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000904130

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The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies by Patrick Le Galès,Jennifer Robinson Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition. It consolidates and takes forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. Comparative urbanism injects a welcome sense of methodological rigor and a commitment to careful evaluation of claims across different contexts, which will enhance current debates in the field. Drawing together more than 50 international scholars and practitioners, this book offers an overview of key ideas and practices in the field and extends current thinking and practice. The book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of urbanism, including geography, sociology, political studies, planning, and urban studies.

Author : Sebastián Felipe Villamizar-Santamaría
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031583353

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Making the Rural Urban by Sebastián Felipe Villamizar-Santamaría Pdf

Author : Xóchitl Bada,Liliana Rivera-Sánchez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190926557

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The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America by Xóchitl Bada,Liliana Rivera-Sánchez Pdf

The essays included in this volume provide both an assessment of key areas and current trends in sociology, specifically with regard to contemporary sociology in Latin America, as well as a collection of innovative empirical studies. The volume serves as an effective bridge of communication allowing sociological academies to mobilize and disseminate research dynamics from Latin America to the rest of the world.

Author : Ryan Alaniz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477314098

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From Strangers to Neighbors by Ryan Alaniz Pdf

Natural disasters, the effects of climate change, and political upheavals and war have driven tens of millions of people from their homes and spurred intense debates about how governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should respond with long-term resettlement strategies. Many resettlement efforts have focused primarily on providing infrastructure and have done little to help displaced people and communities rebuild social structure, which has led to resettlement failures throughout the world. So what does it take to transform a resettlement into a successful community? This book offers the first long-term comparative study of social outcomes through a case study of two Honduran resettlements built for survivors of Hurricane Mitch (1998) by two different NGOs. Although residents of each arrived from the same affected neighborhoods and have similar demographics, twelve years later one resettlement wrestles with high crime, low participation, and low social capital, while the other maintains low crime, a high degree of social cohesion, participation, and general social health. Using a multi-method approach of household surveys, interviews, ethnography, and analysis of NGO and community documents, Ryan Alaniz demonstrates that these divergent resettlement trajectories can be traced back to the type and quality of support provided by external organizations and the creation of a healthy, cohesive community culture. His findings offer important lessons and strategies that can be utilized in other places and in future resettlement policy to achieve the most effective and positive results.

Author : Eduardo Canel
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271037332

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Barrio Democracy in Latin America by Eduardo Canel Pdf

The transition to democracy underway in Latin America since the 1980s has recently witnessed a resurgence of interest in experimenting with new forms of local governance emphasizing more participation by ordinary citizens. The hope is both to foster the spread of democracy and to improve equity in the distribution of resources. While participatory budgeting has been a favorite topic of many scholars studying this new phenomenon, there are many other types of ongoing experiments. In Barrio Democracy in Latin America, Eduardo Canel focuses our attention on the innovative participatory programs launched by the leftist government in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the early 1990s. Based on his extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Canel examines how local activists in three low-income neighborhoods in that city dealt with the opportunities and challenges of implementing democratic practices and building better relationships with sympathetic city officials.

Author : Alisha Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107174078

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Forbearance as Redistribution by Alisha Holland Pdf

The book explains why and when laws go unenforced in developing countries. It argues that the tolerance of street vending and squatting is a form of informal welfare provision and a more effective means to mobilize the poor than conventional state social policies.

Author : William L. Canak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429718380

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Lost Promises by William L. Canak Pdf

The origins of the debt crisis, the principal institutional actors involved, and the structure of related policies are well documented. Less studied and less understood is the impact of austerity on the people of Latin America. In this collection of original essays, leading Latin American and U.S. researchers map the political economy of austerity in Latin America. Each essay focuses on a specific aspect of social relations-urban, rural, demographic, or economic. Exploring the theoretical and substantive implications of austerity in Latin America, the contributors show that the study of the region's debt crisis can contribute to an understanding of the impact of internationalization on national social structure and development. The book begins with a historical analysis of global economic and institutional changes that presaged the rapid growth of debt in Latin America and determined the implementation of austerity policies. In Part 2, several essays focus on the structure of national economic stabilization policies and their impact on income distribution. Part 3 examines the effects of austerity on various dimensions of social structure including demography, urbanization, organized labor, and regional development. Popular responses to austerity policies are explored in Part 4.