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 drug 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
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