ABSTRACT
Cities continue to be key sites for the production and contestation of inequalities generated by an ongoing but troubled neoliberal project. Neoliberalism’s onslaught across the globe now shapes diverse inequalities -- poverty, segregation, racism, social exclusion, homelessness -- as city inhabitants feel the brunt of privatization, state re-organization, and punishing social policy. This book examines the relationship between persistent neoliberalism and the production and contestation of inequalities in cities across the world. Case studies of current city realities reveal a richly place-specific and generalizable neoliberal condition that further deepens the economic, social, and political relations that give rise to diverse inequalities. Diverse cases also show how people struggle against a neoliberal ethos and hence the open-endedness of futures in these cities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|158 pages
Urban Inequalities Across the World
chapter 1|13 pages
Social Sustainability and Urban Inequality
chapter 3|26 pages
From “Free-Market” Slums to public housing and back again
chapter 4|17 pages
Socio-Spatial Inequality and Violence in Cities of the Global South
chapter 7|18 pages
Small Cities, Big Issues
chapter 8|18 pages
The Paradox of Weiquan Movements
part II|56 pages
Resistances and Insurgencies