Locating Right to the City in the Global South

摘要

The publication of this book is timely: the right to the city has now been extensively studied in the developed world. But at the same time, the fast pace of urbanisation in the Global South has raised some concern about the dominance of theories from the Global North, leading to an appeal for 'provincialising global urbanism'. Against this background, this book examines the right to the city in the fast-growing South. The word 'locating' precisely reflects the effort to con-textualise a thematic issue in the reality of the Global South. This effort has led to fruitful results: the book is not an isolated study of social inequality and conflict in these countries, nor is it merely a transfer of the concept from the well-established research community to new places. Rather, the book explores how similar trends of neo-liberalism have developed at a global scale with impacts on social divisions in new places, and how the perspective of the right to the city can be fruitfully used to understand social conflicts, which may in turn shape their future.