Beyond the Megacity

Nadine Reis is a professor at the Centre for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies (CEDUA) at El Colegio de México. Michael Lukas is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the Universidad de Chile.

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Introduction: Old and New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile and Nadine Reis, El Colegio de México

Part I: Framing Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America

1. Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global South
Teresa Caldeira, University of California, Berkeley, USA

2. Urban Community and Resistance
Raul Zibechi, Independent Writer and Journalist, Uruguay

3. Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Super-Cycle in Latin America
Martín Arboleda, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile

Part II: Metropolitan Peripheries under Financialization and Urban Extractivism

4. Large-scale Housing in Peripheral Urbanization: Persistence and Change in Urban Space Production in the Mexico City Megaregion
Clara Salazar, El Colegio de México, Nadine Reis, El Colegio de México, and Ann Varley, University College London, UK

5. Periurban Satellite Towns in Santiago: The Urbanization by Holdings and the Paradoxical Happiness of Middle-Class Periurban Dwellers
César Cáceres, Viña del Mar, Chile

6. Financialization and Social Reproduction in the Buenos Aires Urban Periphery
Liz Mason-Deeze, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Part III: Community, Commoning, and Political Agency on the Urban Margins

7. The Self-Built-City as Palimpsest: (Re)Constructing Urban Memory in Lima’s Hybrid Peripheries
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

8. Occupy the Periphery: Housing Occupations and the Production of Urban Commons in Belo Horizonte
João Tonucci and Rodrigo Castriota, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

9. Hybrid Livelihoods: Resistant Adaption in Peri-Urban Bolivia
Hannah-Hunt Moeller, University of Michigan, USA

10. Blurring the Urban-Rural Divide: Urban Peripheries as Sites of Food Sovereignty Construction in Caracas
Christina Schiavoni, International Institute for Social Studies, The Netherlands and Ana Felicien, Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela

Part IV: Extended Urbanization between New Rurality and Operational Landscapes

11. Planetary Urbanization, Agro-Exports, and Informality: Making Sense of the Expanding Peripheries and Emerging Cities in Coastal Ecuador
Gustavo Duran, Jonathan Menoscal, and Manuel Bayón, FLACSO Ecuador

12. Worlding the Atacama Desert: Peripheral Urbanization and Transnational Resource Extraction Urbanism in Antofagasta, Chile
Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile

13. Planetary Urbanization and Maquiladoras in Motul, Yucatán: Unveiling Abstract Space in the Ex-City
Claudia Fonseca Alfaro, Malmö University, Sweden

14. Rural Livelihoods, Urbanization, and Incomplete Population Transitions in Brazil
Alisson F. Barbieri and Ricardo Ojima, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil/Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN, Brazil

15. The Urbanization of Mexico’s Rural World: A Socio-Cultural Anthropology Approach
Gabriela Torres-Mazuera, Centro de Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, CIESAS, Mexico

Conclusion: Peripheral Urbanization: Current Trends, Methodological Advances, and the Decolonization of Urban Theory
Nadine Reis, El Colegio de México and Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile

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