Abstract
Latin American Urbanization and the Political Economy of Inequality
Highlights
A review of Urban Latin America: Inequalities and Neoliberal Reforms is especially fitting for Latin American Perspectives, since the book emerged from three special issues of the journal edited by Tom Angotti, including two with Clara Irazábal (Angotti, 2013; Angotti and Irazábal, 2017; Irazábal and Angotti, 2017)
Angotti’s focus on structural forces helps to propose alternatives to what he terms the “urban fallacy,” the tendency to attribute fundamental challenges to the city rather than to larger structures (Castells, 1977). His discussion is situated within debates on the political economy in which “concrete urban processes” are understood as structurally “conditioned by their connection with economic exigencies, political arrangements, and the socio-cultural milieu” (Walton, 1981: 376)
Urban Latin America shows how a structural understanding frames key problems of Latin American cities that have been the subject of considerable research (Goldfrank and Schrank, 2009; Roberts, 1979)
Summary
A review of Urban Latin America: Inequalities and Neoliberal Reforms is especially fitting for Latin American Perspectives, since the book emerged from three special issues of the journal edited by Tom Angotti, including two with Clara Irazábal (Angotti, 2013; Angotti and Irazábal, 2017; Irazábal and Angotti, 2017). Set within the capitalist political economy at local and global levels, Urban Latin America highlights three key contradictions defining urban Latin America with particular consequences for its cities—violence, enclaves, and land struggles. Urban Latin America shows how a structural understanding frames key problems of Latin American cities that have been the subject of considerable research (Goldfrank and Schrank, 2009; Roberts, 1979).
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