Celebrated urban theorist lifts the lid on the effects of a global explosion of disenfranchised slum-dwellers.
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world.
From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly original development unforeseen by either classical Marxism or neoliberal theory.
Are the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, volcanoes waiting to erupt? Davis provides the first global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor. He surveys Hindu fundamentalism in Bombay, the Islamist resistance in Casablanca and Cairo, street gangs in Cape Town and San Salvador, Pentecostalism in Kinshasa and Rio de Janeiro, and revolutionary populism in Caracas and La Paz.Planet of Slums ends with a provocative meditation on the "war on terrorism" as an incipient world war between the American empire and the slum poor.
如果外星人对地球进行观察,他们也许会发现人类是这颗星球上最奇特的物种。其他群居生物不断增长的种群规模一旦超过某个极限,往往开始分裂,各自占据一块栖息地继续增长。有时,不分群甚至会给种群的生存造成危害。然而人类在最近几百年间呈现的是一个相反的运动态势:他们聚...
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评分看书期间北京正值“消防大清理”,大大小小的城市边缘地带一夜消失,我个人在此期间经历了一次北京市公务员考试,申论里给了大段材料,里面王大爷喜出望外的发现自己住了很多年的小区要进行老旧小区改造,张大爷住在前门好多年终于迎来了绿化改造后青山绿水的前门社区,还有节...
很重要的书,但是分析单薄
评分worth reading
评分まあまあ……很佩服作者用了这么多材料,以及Third World是个很复杂的问题,不是一两句postcolonialism, neoliberalism就可以打发掉的。
评分很重要的书,但是分析单薄
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