With a third of the global urban population already living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, Mike Davis explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, and of state violence on huge populations. He shows also how poverty not only grew massively in the 1990s but how the gap between rich and poor countries expanded and how women and minorities fell further behind. Surveying the new urban poor from Bombay to Cairo, Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro, Mike Davis argues that this enormous population of marginalised labourers is not an industrious beehive of ambitious entrepreneurs but a stagnant ferment of extreme Darwinian competition which threatens to overflow the shanty-towns, and swamp the homes and businesses of the urban rich.
最近要写一篇和贫民窟有关的文章,看了一下这本书。作者是一个美国社会学家。按理说欧美作家很会批判自己所在的社会和国家,这位作者看来没那个胆量,不敢把洛杉矶、纽约和底特律的贫民窟写得清晰些,甚至伦敦巴黎都没什么笔墨,整本书可以说是布满贫民窟的第三世界。 这本书有...
评分文/梁捷 伟大的城市与贫民窟 维科认为,城市是文明涌现的象征,那大约发生在六千年之前。城市出现,人类才拥有真正意义上的历史。而就在最近几十年,我们又在经历另一场革命,全球城市数量和城市人口数量爆炸性增长,世界上大多数人正源源不断地从农村转移到城市,创造出一个又...
评分 评分【卡拉OK法西斯主义 karaoke fascism】 源自人类学者Monique Skidmore的书名《卡拉OK法西斯主义:缅甸与恐怖政治》(Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear)。她访问了城市周围一些凄凉的小镇——所谓的“新领地”——仰光外面军事专制强制重新安置的成千上万都市...
评分重新开启读书的生活,最近半个月读完两本书,先是一本政治人物的访谈录音整理,见证了中国的重大变局,这几天看的则是美国学者迈克.戴维斯的《布满贫民窟的星球》,是一本有关现代城市贫民窟现象的书。 “贫民窟”(Slum)是一个我们耳熟能详的词汇,它经常与贫困、混...
依然是Mike Davis 一贯的立场,只是少了些第一手研究,有点杂凑的嫌疑,不过还是好书。
评分依然是Mike Davis 一贯的立场,只是少了些第一手研究,有点杂凑的嫌疑,不过还是好书。
评分Mike Davis is a typical urban-apocalyptic activist and he made a lot of criticism on the place (LA, California, where he is a native). An anti-wealthiness/power socialist, criticized the reformist as most of the reforms are tackling the superficial symptoms rather than the root: inequality. The arguments are too overwhelming for me.
评分基本上列数字,不停quote别人,but a helpful overview
评分最后来了一把无政府。够呛。 前面的分析还是挺到位的
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