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.
看书期间北京正值“消防大清理”,大大小小的城市边缘地带一夜消失,我个人在此期间经历了一次北京市公务员考试,申论里给了大段材料,里面王大爷喜出望外的发现自己住了很多年的小区要进行老旧小区改造,张大爷住在前门好多年终于迎来了绿化改造后青山绿水的前门社区,还有节...
評分2016年里约的奥运宣传片了,有美丽的海岸线,有发达的富人区,也有色彩斑斓的贫民窟。贫民窟里的孩子撒欢快跑,愉快踢球——宣传镜头下,贫民窟里的穷人是快乐的,但是这并非贫民窟里的真相! 《布满贫民窟的星球》一书,让我们看到了城市繁华掩盖下的大疮疤——“城市,不再是...
評分2016年里约的奥运宣传片了,有美丽的海岸线,有发达的富人区,也有色彩斑斓的贫民窟。贫民窟里的孩子撒欢快跑,愉快踢球——宣传镜头下,贫民窟里的穷人是快乐的,但是这并非贫民窟里的真相! 《布满贫民窟的星球》一书,让我们看到了城市繁华掩盖下的大疮疤——“城市,不再是...
評分19世纪末号称“光明之城”的巴黎是人们心目中现代城市的模式。城市将变成贫民窟,terrible。2006年,人类有史以来第一次城市人口多与农村人口。超级城市,2000万以上的人口。雅加达、达卡、卡拉奇、上海。全球贫富差距越来越大,2020年城市居民中45-50%是贫困人口,2030年全球...
評分进入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...
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评分很重要的書,但是分析單薄
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评分まあまあ……很佩服作者用瞭這麼多材料,以及Third World是個很復雜的問題,不是一兩句postcolonialism, neoliberalism就可以打發掉的。
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