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.
發表於2024-12-23
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首先,很慚愧地說,居然九個月沒寫過書評瞭。真是無顔見江東父老。這期間也確實好像沒讀過書,無話可說。工作忙,生活忙,也不知道忙瞭些什麼。很大的一個問題就是花瞭太多時間在各種屏幕前頭,時間都被消耗。就連這本200頁的書也拖拖拉拉搞瞭兩個多月纔看完。 此書在好兩次會...
評分首先,很慚愧地說,居然九個月沒寫過書評瞭。真是無顔見江東父老。這期間也確實好像沒讀過書,無話可說。工作忙,生活忙,也不知道忙瞭些什麼。很大的一個問題就是花瞭太多時間在各種屏幕前頭,時間都被消耗。就連這本200頁的書也拖拖拉拉搞瞭兩個多月纔看完。 此書在好兩次會...
評分這不得不說是一本城市的辛酸史,不得不說是人民大眾的血淚史,在感慨萬韆後,我要說的是:用黑色的眼鏡看世界,世界將永遠沒有光明。 或許這句話本身有點唯心論,但是不得不承認的是,我無法說服自己接受書中的事實,即使知道這是事實或趨勢或預言或警示,但我依然願意往自己...
評分如果外星人對地球進行觀察,他們也許會發現人類是這顆星球上最奇特的物種。其他群居生物不斷增長的種群規模一旦超過某個極限,往往開始分裂,各自占據一塊棲息地繼續增長。有時,不分群甚至會給種群的生存造成危害。然而人類在最近幾百年間呈現的是一個相反的運動態勢:他們聚...
評分起卡夫卡;至於老上海,它永遠都活在張愛玲的筆下;而巴黎這座光明之城,當然是屬於本雅明的瞭。在我們的想像裏麵,這些城市和那些作傢之間的故事簡直要比梁祝還浪漫,生死相許,可歌可泣。 所以今天的遊客去瞭布拉格一定躲不掉印著卡夫卡頭像的T恤。要是到瞭上海,有人會不辭...
圖書標籤: 社會學 城市規劃 城市 城市學 urban slum 開捲八分鍾 urbanization
worth reading
評分很重要的書,但是分析單薄
評分まあまあ……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。
評分我是
評分很重要的書,但是分析單薄
Planet of Slums 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載