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.

• IllustrationsTablesIntroduction: Old and New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin AmericaMichael Lukas, Universidad de Chile and Nadine Reis, El Colegio de MéxicoPart I: Framing Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America1. Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global SouthTeresa Caldeira, University of California, Berkeley, USA 2. Urban Community and ResistanceRaul Zibechi, Independent Writer and Journalist, Uruguay3. Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Super-Cycle in Latin AmericaMartín Arboleda, Universidad Diego Portales, ChilePart II: Metropolitan Peripheries under Financialization and Urban Extractivism4. Large-scale Housing in Peripheral Urbanization: Persistence and Change in Urban Space Production in the Mexico City MegaregionClara Salazar, El Colegio de México, Nadine Reis, El Colegio de México, and Ann Varley, University College London, UK5. Periurban Satellite Towns in Santiago: The Urbanization by Holdings and the Paradoxical Happiness of Middle-Class Periurban DwellersCésar Cáceres, Viña del Mar, Chile6. Financialization and Social Reproduction in the Buenos Aires Urban PeripheryLiz Mason-Deeze, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USAPart III: Community, Commoning, and Political Agency on the Urban Margins7. The Self-Built-City as Palimpsest: (Re)Constructing Urban Memory in Lima’s Hybrid PeripheriesKathrin Golda-Pongratz, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany8. Occupy the Periphery: Housing Occupations and the Production of Urban Commons in Belo HorizonteJoão Tonucci and Rodrigo Castriota, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil9. Hybrid Livelihoods: Resistant Adaption in Peri-Urban BoliviaHannah-Hunt Moeller, University of Michigan, USA10. Blurring the Urban-Rural Divide: Urban Peripheries as Sites of Food Sovereignty Construction in CaracasChristina Schiavoni, International Institute for Social Studies, The Netherlands and Ana Felicien, Universidad de los Andes, VenezuelaPart IV: Extended Urbanization between New Rurality and Operational Landscapes11. Planetary Urbanization, Agro-Exports, and Informality: Making Sense of the Expanding Peripheries and Emerging Cities in Coastal EcuadorGustavo Duran, Jonathan Menoscal, and Manuel Bayón, FLACSO Ecuador12. Worlding the Atacama Desert: Peripheral Urbanization and Transnational Resource Extraction Urbanism in Antofagasta, ChileMichael Lukas, Universidad de Chile13. Planetary Urbanization and Maquiladoras in Motul, Yucatán: Unveiling Abstract Space in the Ex-CityClaudia Fonseca Alfaro, Malmö University, Sweden14. Rural Livelihoods, Urbanization, and Incomplete Population Transitions in BrazilAlisson F. Barbieri and Ricardo Ojima, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil/Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN, Brazil15. The Urbanization of Mexico’s Rural World: A Socio-Cultural Anthropology ApproachGabriela Torres-Mazuera, Centro de Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, CIESAS, MexicoConclusion: Peripheral Urbanization: Current Trends, Methodological Advances, and the Decolonization of Urban TheoryNadine Reis, El Colegio de México and Michael Lukas, Universidad de ChileAuthor Biographies