Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World

Abstract

Introduction The Editors Part I. Urban Inequalities Across the World 1. Social Sustainability and Urban Inequality: Detroit and the Ravages of Neoliberalism David Fasenfest 2. New Inequalities in America's Rust Belt David Wilson and Faranak Miraftab 3. From Free-Market Slums to Public Housing and Back Again: The Politics of Relocating Atlanta's Poor Katherine Hankins, Mechelle Puckett, Deirdre Oakley, Erin Ruel 4. Socio-Spatial Inequality and Violence in Cities of the Global South: Evidence from Latin America Diane E. Davis 5. City-Doubles: Re-Urbanism in Africa Martin J. Murray 6. New Forms of Housing and Urban Inequalities in Postsocialist Eastern Europe Virag Molnar 7. Small Cities, Big Issues: Indian Cities in the Debates on Urban Poverty and Inequality Neema Kudva 8. The Paradox of Weiquan Movements: Social Inequality and Individual Negotiation in Land Development in Urban China Mi Shih Part II. Resistances and Insurgencies: Thoughts and Possibilities 9. Urban Insurgencies and the Re-Politicization of the Unequal City Erik Swyngedouw 10. Equality at the Beginning: Ranciere and Democracy Today Mark Purcell 11. Arts of Resistance: Seeing and Shaping the Struggle Ryan Griffis and Sarah Ross 12. Local Practices and Trans-local Solidarities: Reflections on Anti-Eviction Practices on the Cape Flats, South Africa, and in Southside Chicago, Illinois Ken Salo