false <![CDATA[Planet of Slums]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165645364m/7855.jpg 7855 3 <B>Celebrated urban theorist lifts the lid on the effects of a global explosion of disenfranchised slum-dwellers.</B><BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>From the sprawling <I>barricadas</I> 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.<BR><BR>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.<I>Planet of Slums</I> ends with a provocative meditation on the "war on terrorism" as an incipient world war between the American empire and the slum poor. 1245814 16 2 2006 Planet of Slums total:383|5:94|4:170|3:90|2:24|1:5| 383 1473 736 83 3 2 false false Sat Jan 10 17:30:13 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 18:19:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Jun 14 16:05:06 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 14 16:05:23 -0700 2007 5 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 27 14:46:56 -0800 2007 Sat Feb 02 19:44:26 -0800 2008 Planet o...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Feb 19 06:22:32 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 06:23:03 -0800 2009
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Planet of Slums is an overwhelming and sobering treatise on the plight of the urban poor. Readers will find the global phenomenon of urban slums thoroughly sketched out, by region and by city, ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 14 14:07:22 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 14:07:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 25 03:15:09 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 03:22:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 29 20:26:17 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 20:33:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 18 19:10:20 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 19:25:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 04 08:07:47 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 14 07:42:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Jul 19 21:29:59 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 21:30:29 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 23:20:58 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 02:19:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 05:25:11 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 05:39:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 15:00:17 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 15:00:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 11:42:32 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 21:57:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 01:03:52 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 03:43:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 14 12:05:53 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 14 12:05:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 10 00:17:15 -0700 2007 Fri May 30 12:19:27 -0700 2008 Planet of Slums serves as a prelude to he and Forrest Hylton's upcoming book about slum-based resistance to global capitalism. Here Davis provides a history and sharpens a thesis against ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 29 07:53:25 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 29 11:04:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Sep 07 18:57:21 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 19:15:54 -0700 2009

Reading good portions of Davis'"City of Quartz" brought me to this volume shortly after it was published in 2006. My bookmark indicates I have not dared to finish it.

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