Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America write by Eduardo Moncada. This book was released on 2016-01-06. Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes and explains the ways in which major developing world cities respond to the challenge of urban violence. The study shows how the political projects that cities launch to confront urban violence are shaped by the interaction between urban political economies and patterns of armed territorial control. It introduces business as a pivotal actor in the politics of urban violence, and argues that how business is organized within cities and its linkages to local governments impacts whether or not business supports or subverts state efforts to stem and prevent urban violence. A focus on city mayors finds that the degree to which politicians rely upon clientelism to secure and maintain power influences whether they favor responses to violence that perpetuate or weaken local political exclusion. The book builds a new typology of patterns of armed territorial control within cities, and shows that each poses unique challenges and opportunities for confronting urban violence. The study develops sub-national comparative analyses of puzzling variation in the institutional outcomes of the politics of urban violence across Colombia's three principal cities—Medellin, Cali, and Bogota—and over time within each. The book's main findings contribute to research on violence, crime, citizen security, urban development, and comparative political economy. The analysis demonstrates that the politics of urban violence is a powerful new lens on the broader question of who governs in major developing world cities.
Megacities
Megacities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Megacities write by Dirk Kruijt. This book was released on 2013-04-04. Megacities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of urbanization that started in the second half of the twentieth century. 'Megacities' around the world are rapidly becoming the scene for deprivation, especially in the global South, and the urban excluded face the brunt of what in many cases seems like low-intensity warfare. Featuring case studies from across the globe, including Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, Megacities examines recent worldwide trends in poverty and social exclusion, urban violence and politics, and links these to the challenges faced by policy-makers and practitioners.
Resisting Extortion
Resisting Extortion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resisting Extortion write by Eduardo Moncada. This book was released on 2022-01-06. Resisting Extortion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New ethnographic data leads to insights into the widespread yet understudied phenomenon of criminal extortion in Latin America.
Fractured Cities
Fractured Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fractured Cities write by Dirk Kruijt. This book was released on 2013-04-04. Fractured Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable. From the paramilitary invasion of Medell¡n in Colombia, the booming wealth of crack dealers in Managua, Nicaragua and police corruption in Mexico City, to the glimmers of hope in Lima, this book provides a dynamic analysis of urban insecurity. Based on new empirical evidence, interviews with local people and historical contextualization, the authors attempts to shed light on the fault-lines which have appeared in Latin American society. Neoliberal economic policy, it is argued, has intensified the gulf between elites, insulated in gated estates monitored by private security firms, and the poor, who are increasingly mistrustful of state-sponsored attempts to impose order on their slums. Rather than the current trend towards government withdrawal, the situation can only be improved by co-operation between communities and police to build new networks of trust. In the end, violence and insecurity are inseparable from social justice and democracy.
Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence
Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence write by K. Maclean. This book was released on 2015-01-23. Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medellín, Colombia, used to be the most violent city on earth, but in recent years, allegedly thanks to its 'social urbanism' approach to regeneration, it has experienced a sharp decline in violence. The author explores the politics behind this decline and the complex transformations in terms of urban development policies in Medellín.
