{"product_id":"beyond-the-megacity-new-dimensions-of-peripheral-urbanization-in-latin-america-hardback-9781487509101","title":"Beyond the Megacity; New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America (Hardback) 9781487509101","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBeyond the Megacity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNadine Reis (Edited by), Michael Lukas (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487509101\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 April 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e432 pages, 31 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 11 b7w maps,1 b\u0026amp;w figure, 8 b\u0026amp;w tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.8 cm, 0.76 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond the Megacity\u003c\/em\u003e connects and reconnects the global debate on the contemporary urban condition to the Latin American tradition of seeing, considering, and theorizing urbanization from the margins\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e It develops the approach of \"peripheral urbanization\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e as a way to integrate the theoretical agendas belonging to global suburbanisms, neo-Marxist accounts of planetary urbanization, and postcolonial urban studies, and to move urban theory closer to the complexity and diversity of urbanization in the Global South.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom an interdisciplinary perspective, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Megacity\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the natures, causes, implications, and politics of current urbanization processes in Latin America. The book draws on case studies from various countries across the region, covering theoretical and disciplinary approaches from the fields of geography, anthropology, sociology, urban studies, agrarian studies, and urban and regional planning, and is written by academics, journalists, practitioners, and scholar-activists. \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Megacity\u003c\/i\u003e unites these unique perspectives by shifting attention to the places, processes, practices, and bodies of knowledge that have often been neglected in the past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrations\u003cbr\u003eTables\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Old and New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America\u003cbr\u003eMichael Lukas, Universidad de Chile and Nadine Reis, El Colegio de México\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I: Framing Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global South\u003cbr\u003eTeresa Caldeira, University of California, Berkeley, USA \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Urban Community and Resistance\u003cbr\u003eRaul Zibechi, Independent Writer and Journalist, Uruguay\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Super-Cycle in Latin America\u003cbr\u003eMartín Arboleda, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II: Metropolitan Peripheries under Financialization and Urban Extractivism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Large-scale Housing in Peripheral Urbanization: Persistence and Change in Urban Space Production in the Mexico City Megaregion\u003cbr\u003eClara Salazar, El Colegio de México, Nadine Reis, El Colegio de México, and Ann Varley, University College London, UK\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Periurban Satellite Towns in Santiago: The Urbanization by Holdings and the Paradoxical Happiness of Middle-Class Periurban Dwellers\u003cbr\u003eCésar Cáceres, Viña del Mar, Chile\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Financialization and Social Reproduction in the Buenos Aires Urban Periphery\u003cbr\u003eLiz Mason-Deeze, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III: Community, Commoning, and Political Agency on the Urban Margins\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Self-Built-City as Palimpsest: (Re)Constructing Urban Memory in Lima\u0026amp;#x2019;s Hybrid Peripheries\u003cbr\u003eKathrin Golda-Pongratz, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Occupy the Periphery: Housing Occupations and the Production of Urban Commons in Belo Horizonte\u003cbr\u003eJoão Tonucci and Rodrigo Castriota, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Hybrid Livelihoods: Resistant Adaption in Peri-Urban Bolivia\u003cbr\u003eHannah-Hunt Moeller, University of Michigan, USA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Blurring the Urban-Rural Divide: Urban Peripheries as Sites of Food Sovereignty Construction in Caracas\u003cbr\u003eChristina Schiavoni, International Institute for Social Studies, The Netherlands and Ana Felicien, Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart IV: Extended Urbanization between New Rurality and Operational Landscapes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Planetary Urbanization, Agro-Exports, and Informality: Making Sense of the Expanding Peripheries and Emerging Cities in Coastal Ecuador\u003cbr\u003eGustavo Duran, Jonathan Menoscal, and Manuel Bayón, FLACSO Ecuador\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Worlding the Atacama Desert: Peripheral Urbanization and Transnational Resource Extraction Urbanism in Antofagasta, Chile\u003cbr\u003eMichael Lukas, Universidad de Chile\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Planetary Urbanization and Maquiladoras in Motul, Yucatán: Unveiling Abstract Space in the Ex-City\u003cbr\u003eClaudia Fonseca Alfaro, Malmö University, Sweden\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Rural Livelihoods, Urbanization, and Incomplete Population Transitions in Brazil\u003cbr\u003eAlisson F. Barbieri and Ricardo Ojima, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil\/Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN, Brazil\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The Urbanization of Mexico\u0026amp;#x2019;s Rural World: A Socio-Cultural Anthropology Approach\u003cbr\u003eGabriela Torres-Mazuera, Centro de Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, CIESAS, Mexico\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Peripheral Urbanization: Current Trends, Methodological Advances, and the Decolonization of Urban Theory\u003cbr\u003eNadine Reis, El Colegio de México and Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor Biographies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595491766552,"sku":"9781487509101","price":62.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/beyond-the-megacity-new-dimensions-of-peripheral-urbanization-in-latin-america-hardback-9781487509101","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}