Planet of Slums - 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 Planet of Slums write by Mike Davis. This book was released on 2007-09-17. Planet of Slums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.
Slums on Screen
Slums on Screen - 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 Slums on Screen write by Igor Krstic. This book was released on 2016-04-26. Slums on Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen? How have filmmakers engaged historically and across the globe with the social conditions of what is often perceived as the world's most miserable habitats?Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor Krstic outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our 'planet of slums', exploring the way accelerated urbanisation has intersected with an increasingly interconnected global film culture. From Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), the volume provides a number of close readings of films from different historical periods and regions to outline how contemporary film and media practices relate to their past predeccesors, demonstrating the way various filmmakers, both north and south of the equator, have repeatedly grappled with, rejected or continuously modified documentary and realist modes to convey life in our 'planet of slums'.
Shadow Cities
Shadow 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 Shadow Cities write by Robert Neuwirth. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Shadow Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government. As they invent new social structures, Neuwirth argues, squatters are at the forefront of the worldwide movement to develop new visions of what constitutes property and community. Visit Robert Neuwirth's blog at: http://squatterci ty.blogspot.com
Slums
Slums - 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 Slums write by Alan Mayne. This book was released on 2017-08-15. Slums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and a billion of these urban dwellers reside in neighborhoods of entrenched disadvantage—neighborhoods that are characterized as slums. Slums are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality, though, it is public policies that are often at fault, not the people who live in these neighborhoods. In this comprehensive global history, Alan Mayne explores the evolution and meaning of the word “slum,” from its origins in London in the early nineteenth century to its use as a slur against the favela communities in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics in 2016. Mayne shows how the word slum has been extensively used for two hundred years to condemn and disparage poor communities, with the result that these agendas are now indivisible from the word’s essence. He probes beyond the stereotypes of deviance, social disorganization, inertia, and degraded environments to explore the spatial coherence, collective sense of community, and effective social organization of poor and marginalized neighborhoods over the last two centuries. In mounting a case for the word’s elimination from the language of progressive urban social reform, Slums is a must-read book for all those interested in social history and the importance of the world’s vibrant and vital neighborhoods.
Body Parts on Planet Slum
Body Parts on Planet Slum - 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 Body Parts on Planet Slum write by Lisa Beljuli Brown. This book was released on 2011-10-01. Body Parts on Planet Slum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on a year’s research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously invest in a masochistic glorification of suffering that links their lives to the soap operas, revealing disturbing valuations of the female body that traverse reality and fiction. Through its exploration of this daily integration of real suffering and fictional glamour and wealth, ‘Body Parts on Planet Slum’ reveals how fantasy and social exclusion can together induce a form of psychological survivalism, enabling these women to reconfigure the central features of their existence – their suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
