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