Cities of the Global South

Module code: GY3412

For the first time in human history, more than half of the world’s population now live in cities, including more than one billion people in the self-built urban peripheries of the Global South. This module uses critical urban theory and ethnographic case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America to examine our increasingly urbanised world using a 'view from the south'. 

Topics include

• Theory from the south
• Colonial legacies
• Hustle economies
• Gender and neoliberalism
• Slum politics
• Infrastructure from below
• The new middle-classes
• Utopian cities