The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 February 2024
- ISBN 9780190879457
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages600 pages
- Size 176x253x44 mm
- Weight 1134 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 b&w halftones 533
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Short description:
The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum explores the history of the modern slum, connecting nineteenth-century iterations through multiple pathways to its contemporary existence. With chapters by 28 scholars, this Handbook brings an array of important and original perspectives and methodologies to bear on slums, real and imagined, across the globe. Drawing upon anthropology, archaeology, architecture, geography, history, politics, sociology and urban planning, the Handbook delves into households and communities whose existence has been hidden by stereotypes.
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The modern slum is as prevalent as its stereotypes. Today, a slum is often understood to be a place of extreme poverty in the developing world-a place disordered, lacking the basic amenities of life, traumatized by violence, and perpetuated by dysfunctional families and disaffected extremists. Yet the word ?slum? was not coined in the twenty-first century's developing world or its recent past. The word emerged in early nineteenth-century London, and its use expanded as modernization created what is now the developed world and its client territories.
The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum explores the history of the modern slum, connecting nineteenth-century iterations through multiple pathways to its contemporary existence. With chapters by more than twenty scholars, this Handbook brings an array of important and original perspectives and methodologies to bear on slums, real and imagined. Its analysis ranges across Europe, North America, Latin America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and sub-Saharan Africa.
The Handbook probes the impact of gender and race on urban social disadvantage and traces the development of private and state-sponsored intervention-as well as tourist interest-in urban poverty. It suggests that characterizations of slumland disequilibrium, dysfunctionality, and unsustainability should be offset by evidence of make-do enterprise, strategic determination, resilience, homeliness, and neighborliness. Drawing upon anthropology, archaeology, architecture, geography, history, politics, sociology and urban planning, the Handbook delves into households and communities whose existence has been hidden by stereotypes.
This compilation involves a comprehensive scholarly assessment of the contemporary so-called slum...This work will likely be of greatest interest to scholars and graduate students working in the fields of urban history, urban planning, urban anthropology, urban archaeology, urban sociology, and urban social geography, though it may also be of some interest to other non-scholarly readers with an interest in historical and contemporary urban life.
Table of Contents:
CONTENTS
Contributors
Introduction: Slums and the Modern World
Alan Mayne
PART I. FUNDAMENTALS
1. ?What's in a Name??
Alan Mayne
2. Women and Wages in Britain's ?Classic? Slums
Ellen Ross
3. The Intimate Relationship between Slums and Racial Segregation: a South African Case Study
Vivian Bickford-Smith
PART II. URBAN DISADVANTAGE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
4. Informality as Process and the Social Construction of Slums: Southeast Asian Cases
Ross King
5. Slums: City Spaces of Governance and Global Disadvantage
Winnie Mitullah
6. Slum Statistics in India
Amitabh Kundu
7. Pride and Shame: the History of the Slums in Recife, Brazil
Flávio de Souza
8. The Spatial Politics of US Homelessness: The Evolution of Boston's ?Skid Row?
Ella Howard
9. The Rise and Decline of the European Struggle against Social Exclusion
Rob Atkinson
PART III. PERSPECTIVES ACROSS TIME: FROM THE OUTSIDE
10. The Discovery of ?Slums? in mid-Nineteenth Century Cincinnati, Ohio
Henry C. Binford
11. Social Geographies of Poverty in Victorian and Edwardian London
Richard Dennis
12. How Slumming makes the Slum
Fabian Frenzel
13. Slums: Neglect, Clear, or Improve?
Richard Harris
14. Haussmann and the Rebuilding of Paris, 1853-70: A Reassessment
Antoine Paccoud
15. Regulations of Slums and Slum Improvement in British Colonial History
Robert Home
16. The Spillover Effects of Fire, Riot and Epidemics from Slums
Alan Smart and Eliot Tretter
17. The Political Construction of Slums in India
Nandini Gooptu
18. The Return of the Slums in Postwar America
Alexander Von Hoffman
19. Slums and Communism: (Un-)Slumming the (Post) Soviet City
Ivan Nevzgodin
20. NGO Representation of Informal Settlements: the case of Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI)
Marie Huchzermeyer
PART IV. PERSPECTIVES ACROSS TIME: FROM THE INSIDE
21. Notting Dale: The Making and Breaking of a West London Slum, 1865-1946
Jerry White
22. The Historic Fires of Singapore
Kah Seng Loh
23. The Archaeology of Immigrant Lives and Livelihoods at New York City's Five Points
Rebecca Yamin
24. Historical Archaeology and the Evolution of Twentieth-Century Slums in Detroit
Krysta Ryzewski
25. Archaeologies of Disadvantage in the Modern City: Sydney and Melbourne Compared
Tim Murray
26. Popular Housing Processes in Caribbean Colombia
Peter Kellett
27. La Perla, Puerto Rico: Beyond Formal and Informal
Florian Urban
28. Living at the Center, Pushed to the Edge
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