Celebrated urban theorist lifts the lid on the effects of a global explosion of disenfranchised slum-dwellers.
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world.
From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly original development unforeseen by either classical Marxism or neoliberal theory.
Are the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, volcanoes waiting to erupt? Davis provides the first global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor. He surveys Hindu fundamentalism in Bombay, the Islamist resistance in Casablanca and Cairo, street gangs in Cape Town and San Salvador, Pentecostalism in Kinshasa and Rio de Janeiro, and revolutionary populism in Caracas and La Paz.Planet of Slums ends with a provocative meditation on the "war on terrorism" as an incipient world war between the American empire and the slum poor.
重新开启读书的生活,最近半个月读完两本书,先是一本政治人物的访谈录音整理,见证了中国的重大变局,这几天看的则是美国学者迈克.戴维斯的《布满贫民窟的星球》,是一本有关现代城市贫民窟现象的书。 “贫民窟”(Slum)是一个我们耳熟能详的词汇,它经常与贫困、混...
评分进入21世纪以来,世界各地灾难频频。长久以来,中外都有对“灾难发生,无论是怎样的荣华富贵也一并被转眼吞噬湮灭”的场面的描述,著书者也会说“自然威力一视同仁”。然而当今学者们告诉我们:今非昔比。 迈克·戴维斯的《布满贫民窟的星球》中“贫民窟生态学”一章中介绍了...
评分最近要写一篇和贫民窟有关的文章,看了一下这本书。作者是一个美国社会学家。按理说欧美作家很会批判自己所在的社会和国家,这位作者看来没那个胆量,不敢把洛杉矶、纽约和底特律的贫民窟写得清晰些,甚至伦敦巴黎都没什么笔墨,整本书可以说是布满贫民窟的第三世界。 这本书有...
评分【卡拉OK法西斯主义 karaoke fascism】 源自人类学者Monique Skidmore的书名《卡拉OK法西斯主义:缅甸与恐怖政治》(Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear)。她访问了城市周围一些凄凉的小镇——所谓的“新领地”——仰光外面军事专制强制重新安置的成千上万都市...
一份大型文献综述,而且使用的材料基本全是对现象的报道,然后对它们加以横向比较,归纳共性,却没有分析框架,更没有理论洞见。写作也繁冗琐碎没有节奏感。的确是成功放大了一个被忽视的重大议题,但只适合当资料查,还都是二手的。
评分まあまあ……很佩服作者用了这么多材料,以及Third World是个很复杂的问题,不是一两句postcolonialism, neoliberalism就可以打发掉的。
评分很重要的书,但是分析单薄
评分很重要的书,但是分析单薄
评分worth reading
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