Urban Violence, Resilience and Security

Edited by Michael R. Glass, Senior Lecturer and Director, Urban Studies Program, Taylor B. Seybolt, Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director, Ford Institute for Human Security and Phil Williams, Professor of International Security and Former Director, Ridgway Center for International Security, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, US

• Contents:Foreword xiAriel C. ArmonyAcknowledgments xiii1 Introduction to Urban Violence, Resilience and Security 1Michael R. Glass, Taylor B. Seybolt and Phil WilliamsPART I CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO URBANVIOLENCE, RESILIENCE AND SECURITY2 Urban violence in the Global South: drug traffickers,gangs, and organized crime 21Phil Williams3 Urban resilience for the 21st century 39Savannah Cox4 Urban governance in conflict zones: contentious politics,not “resilience” 53Daniel E. Esser5 Building effective and acceptable security-driven urban resilience 72Jon Coaffee6 Fragility and pernicious resilience in urban Latin Americaand the Caribbean 88Enrique Desmond AriasPART II DIMENSIONS OF URBAN VULNERABILITYAND RESILIENCE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH7 Feral cities and the normative dimension of violence:Caracas and the Latin American city 101Roberto Briceño-León8 Xenophobic violence, displacement, and reintegration:a case study of female migrants in Isipingo, Durban,South Africa 120Kim Gounder and Brij Maharaj9 Shoot first, ask later: violence and anti-crime policies inMexico’s Cuidad Juárez and Pakistan’s Karachi 138Vanda Felbab-Brown10 Strain between two worlds: a sociological approach to therise and fall of crime and violence in Guatemala City 160Daniel Núñez11 Criminal victimization and social resilience in Latin America 177Eduardo MoncadaIndex 193

‘Urban Violence, Resilience and Security provides a unique intervention in the study of urban violence in the Global South. Challenging conventional accounts of urban violence modeled after cities in the Global North, contributors provide theoretically sophisticated and empirically-grounded case studies to highlight the myriad and geographically contingent forms of resilience and resistance. A must-read for scholars concerned with the urban condition of life and death in the Global South.’