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Cities From Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America
- Editor(s): Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Javier Auyero
- Contributor(s): Brodwyn Fischer, Edward Murphy, Bryan McCann, Dennis Rodgers, Emilio Duhau, Ratao Diniz, Sujatha Fernandes, Mariana Cavalcanti, Javier Auyero
- Published: 2014
- Pages: 296
- Illustrations: 22 photographs, 2 tables, 6 maps
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- Introduction / Brodwyn Fischer 1
- 1. A Century in the Present Tense: Crisis,Politics, and the Intellectual History of Brazil's Informal Cities / Brodwyn Fischer 9
- 2. In and Out of the Margins: Urban Land Seizures and Homeownership in Santiago, Chile / Edward Murphy 68
- 3. Troubled Oasis: The Intertwining Histories of the Morro dos Cabritos and Bairro Peixoto / Bryan McCann 102
- 4. Compadres, Vecinos, and Bróderes in the Barrio: Kinship, Politics, and Local Territorialization in Urban Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers 127
- 5. The Informal City: An Enduring Slum or a Progressive Habitat? / Emilio Duhau 150
- 6. The Favelas of Rio de Janeiro / Ratão Diniz (with captions by Bryan McCann) 170
- 7. Informal Cities and Community-Based Organizing: The Case of the Teatro Alameda / Sujatha Fernandes 185
- 8. Threshold Markets: The Production of Real-Estate Value between the "Favela" and the "Pavement" / Mariana Cavalcanti 208
- 9. Toxic Wasting: Flammable Shantytown Revisited / Javier Auyero 238
- Bibliography 263
- Contributors 285
- Index 287
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- Brodwyn Fischer
- Edward Murphy
- Bryan McCann
- Dennis Rodgers
- Emilio Duhau
- Ratao Diniz
- Sujatha Fernandes
- Mariana Cavalcanti
- Javier Auyero
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"This is an excellent collection of innovative, often bracing, reflections on crucial issues of cities and citizenship. In their essays, the contributors think outward from carefully detailed local cases, taking broader theories to task while developing valuable new methodological and conceptual tools. This collection represents both a coming of age and a new point of departure for historical and social scientific study of the informal city."—Mark Healey, author of The Ruins of the New Argentina: Peronism and the Remaking of San Juan after the 1944 Earthquake
"Cities from Scratch offers a surprisingly fresh take on slums, ghettoes, and shantytowns, classic topics in the social sciences. Based on solid empirical work, the essays are notable for the contributors' attention to local situations and politics, and their willingness to allow the research, rather than theoretical assumptions, to determine their findings."—Jose C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930
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Description
This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related violence, modernization and development theories, populist or revolutionary politics, or debates about the cultures of poverty. Yet shantytowns have proven both more durable and more multifaceted than any of these perspectives foresaw. Far from being accidental offshoots of more dynamic economic and political developments, they are now a permanent and integral part of Latin America's urban societies, critical to struggles over democratization, economic transformation, identity politics, and the drugs and arms trades. Integrating historical, cultural, and social scientific methodologies, this collection brings together recent research from across Latin America, from the informal neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, Managua and Buenos Aires. Amid alarmist exposés, Cities from Scratch intervenes by considering Latin American shantytowns at a new level of interdisciplinary complexity.
Contributors. Javier Auyero, Mariana Cavalcanti, Ratão Diniz, Emilio Duhau, Sujatha Fernandes Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Edward Murphy, Dennis Rodgers
About The Author(s)
Brodwyn Fischer is Professor of History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro.
Bryan McCann is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University. He is the author of Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro and Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil, both also published by Duke University Press.
Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina, Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition, Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita, all also published by Duke University Press.
