Becoming global and the new poverty of cities
, mondialisation, pauvreté, Latin America, Amérique latine, Eastern Europe, Europe de l'Est, capitalisme, marxisme, économie, mutation sociale, Hanley Lisa M., Ruble Blair A., Tulchin Joseph S., paupérisation
<b>Extract from the introduction by Lisa M. Hanley, Blair A. Ruble and Joseph S. Tulchin :</b></div>
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Globalization has had a peculiar impact on cities all over the world, as much in the developed world as in the developing world. Globalization turned out to be an assault on the urban middle class. As the state shrank while the migration into the city continued, competition with the city together with the competition among cities increasingly became a race to the bottom. <br />
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The process of a hollowing out of the global urban middle class and the degradation of the working poor was perhaps most visible in Latin America and socialist East Europe, regions in which moderate prosperity had become inexorably linked to the state. <br />
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The chapters to follow attempt to tell the story of what this new poverty means for the people involved and for their cities and communities, and to do so through a parallel examination of how these changes have affected the functioning of urban communities in two regions arguably most affected by macro-economic policies imposed from the outside: Latin America and Post-Socialist Eastern Europe.</div>
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<b>Contents :</b></div>
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Introduction - Lisa M. Hanley, Blair A. Ruble, and Joseph S. Tulchin <br />
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Part 1 : Latin America :<br />
The Myth Of Marginality Revisited : The Case Of Favelas In Rio De Janeiro, 1969–2003 - Janice E. Perlman <br />
Transnational Migration and the Shifting Boundaries of Profit and Poverty in Central America - Patricia Landolt <br />
The New Poverty in Argentina and Latin America - Gabriel Kessler and Mercedes Di Virgilio <br />
The Hound of Los Pinos and the Return of Oscar Lewis : Understanding Urban Poverty in Mexico - William Beezely <br />
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Part 2 : Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe :<br />
Welfare Capitalism After Communism : Labor Weakness And Post-Communist Social Policies - Stephen Crowley <br />
Designing a “Scorecard” to Monitor and Map Social Development of Municipalities in Tomsk oblast (Russia) - Anastasstia Alexandrova and Polina Kuznetsova <br />
Those Left Behind : Trends of “Demodernization” and the Case of the Poor in Post-Communist Hungary - Júlia Szalai</div>
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<b>Lisa M. Hanley </b>is project associate at the Comparative Urban Studies project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.</div>
<b>Blair A. Ruble</b> is currently Director of the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., where is also serves as a Co-Director of the Comparative Urban Studies Project.</div>
<b>Joseph S. Tulchin </b>is the Director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, D.C., where he also serves as a Co-Director of the Comparative Urban Studies Project.</div>
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
2005
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http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1410&fuseaction=topics.publications&group_id=11506
3rd international workshop on post-communist urban geographies : Actors shaping urban change
post-socialist, post-communist, postsocialiste, postcommuniste, Europe de l'Est, Eastern Europe, mutation sociale, mutation urbaine, capitalisme
<b>Organisers' description : </b></div>
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The 3rd International Workshop on Post-communist Urban Geographies. Actors Shaping Urban Change carries on the tradition established by two earlier workshops held in Lund (2005) and Stockholm-Tallinn (2007) with the aim (1) to draw together scholars interested in post-communist cities in order to discuss leading edge urban research in the region, and (2) to experience post-socialist urban change first hand through conference excursions.</div>
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<b>Papers : </b></div>
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Gábor Hegedűs - The social geographical study of gated communities in most populous Hungarian cities outside Budapest agglomeration</div>
Albrecht Kauffmann - Migration movements within the Russian Federation and changes in the distribution of its urban population</div>
Michael Gentile, Sara Ferlander and Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen - Experiences from carrying out a large survey in a small city : The Stakhanov health interview survey 2009</div>
Anneli Kährik and Kadri Leetmaa - Residential preferences towards suburban living in post-socialist metropolies</div>
Oleg Golubchikov and Nicholas Phelps - Post-socialist post-suburbia? Growth machine and the emergence of 'edge city' in the metropolitan context of Moscow</div>
Kadri Leetma, Kristi Anniste and Isolde Brade - Hidden new residential areas in the Tallinn metropolitan area : Soviet summer home settlements in residential suburbanisation</div>
Liviu Chelcea - Gentrification as primitive accumulation : Property rights, the market and the State in a postsocialist city during the 1990s</div>
Natalia Onyshchenko and Anastasia Ryabchuk - Marginalization of working class in post-soviet urban space : The case of Bilshovyk plant and shopping cenre</div>
Tuari Tuvikene - From socialist city to capitalist city? The persistence of socialist places : The case of garage areas</div>
Dominik Weiss - Keeping the bubble alive? The effects of urban renewal and demolition subsidies in the East German housing market</div>
Panait Laura Ioana - Art and public space in Romania after 1989 : Screaming loud for re-conquering the city?</div>
Anna-Liisa Unt - Design by use : The transformation of Tallinn culture and sports arena Linnahall and its surroundings</div>
Nadir Kinossian - Local politics and development choices in the city of Kazan, Russia</div>
Joseph Salukvadze and David Gogishvili - On the geography and typology of building construction in Tbilisi : Before and after the crisis</div>
Elena Trubina - Hosting international events in a time of global crisis : Place-making and recentralization</div>
Lajos Boros - Growth coalitions in post-socialist urban development - the case of Hungary</div>
Ionela Iacob - Goth subculture in contemporary Romania</div>
Maria Prieto - Everyday Sarajevo : Reassembling public housing and collective memory</div>
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Multiple authors
University of Tartu
17 - 19 September 2009
Autre
http://www.ut.ee/676984