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Mute Vol 2, No. 3 − Naked Cities: Struggle in the Global Slums

According to UN research data, by 2030 half of the world's population will be living in slums. Meanwhile, in Durban's Kennedy Road settlement residents risk arrest and police violence in their struggle for toilets and drinking water. The statistics are not supposed to talk back. This issue of Mute has largely been sparked by Mike Davis’ claim that in the mega-slums Muhammad and the Holy Ghost have superseded Marx. Here we consider another view of the world’s burgeoning ‘naked cities’. Where the populace are refugees without rights or basic amenities, are new forms of political action emerging?

2006-10, ISSN 1356-7748-203, ISBN 978190649633

FURTHER DESCRIPTION

21st Century Noir

Iain Boal reviews Mike Davis' Planet of the Slums

 

Thinking Resistance in the Shanty Town

Richard Pithouse, contra Mike Davis, discusses the powerful 'politics of the poor'

 

Slumsploitation

Melanie Gilligan on the spectacularisation of the favela in Brazilian films and TV

 

Lies and Mendacity

Demetra Kotouza exposes Britains 'diffuse workhouse' and its Victorian precursor

 

Thriving on Adversity

Anna Dezeuze on the artistic celebration of slum creativity

 

Demolishing Delhi

Amita Baviskar on the bulldozing of Delhi's slums in preparation for the Commonwealth Games

 

Extracting Value from the City

Rachel Weber on the state's vital role in ensuring the profitability of urban real estate

 

'We are Ugly, But We are Here': Hiati Special

Introduction: Anthony Iles

UN Liberating Hiati

Kevin Pina gives an overview of electoral tumult in Hiati

Tourist

Poem by Felix Morriseau-Leroy

Keep on Keepin' On

A selection of poems by Josaphat-Robert Large

 

Thames Gateway Special

Introduction: Another Green World by Benjamin Seymour

Great Expectations

Penny Koutrolikou on the Thames Gateway's fractal governance and the ill effects for its residents

Blue Sky Over Blue Water

Michael Edwards analyses the likely outcome of the Thames Gateway Project and offers his own alternative vision.

 

ISSN 1356-7748

ISBN 978-1-906496-3-3

Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

21st Century Noir

By Iain Boal

Thinking Resistance in the Shanty Town

By Richard Pithouse

Slumsploitation - The Favela on Film and TV

By Melanie Gilligan

Lies and Mendicity

By Demetra Kotouza

Thriving on Adversity: The Art of Precariousness

By Anna Dezeuze

Demolishing Delhi: World Class City in the Making

By Amita Baviskar

Extracting Value from the City: Neoliberalism and Urban Redevelopment (print issue only)

By Rachel Weber

'We Are Ugly, But We Are Here': Haiti Special Introduction

By Anthony Iles

U.N.-Liberating Haiti

By Kevin Pina

Poem: Tourist

By Fé́lix Morriseau-Leroy

Poems: Keep On Keepin' On

By Josaphat-Robert Large

Delta of Heinous: Developing Thames Gateway. Introduction: Another Green World

By Benedict Seymour

Great Expectations: Governing Thames Gateway

By Penny Koutrolikou

Blue Skies Over Bluewater

By Michael Edwards
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