Everyday Life of Urban Inequality

Jessica Bodoh-Creed is lecturer in anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles.Megan Sheehan is assistant professor of anthropology at the College of St Benedict/St John’s University.Angela Storey is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Louisville.

Ethnographically based and cross-culturally comparative, this volume of articles provides students of anthropology with first-hand portrayals of urban life in different cities. Authors in this volume demonstrate that urban inequality is a multifaceted phenomenon: public policy, institutional arrangement, space, infrastructure, and even personal hygiene. Jointly, they made it clear that urban inequality is not merely a local story but a global reality with shared roots with various ramifications.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroductionMegan Sheehan and Angela D. StoreySection 1: Development and DisplacementChapter 1: Losing or Gaining Home? Experiences of Resettlement from Casablanca’s SlumsRaffael Beier and Cristiana StravaChapter 2: Kuala Lumpur: World Class City Formation and Urban (In)EquitiesSeng-Guan YeohChapter 3: Full of My Love: Notoriously Dangerous Informal Mass Transit in MaputoJoel Christian ReedSection 2: Belonging and ContestationChapter 4: Part and Parcel of Urbanization: Contested Claims to Land Access and Urban Indigenous Spaces in HermosilloLucero RadonicChapter 5: Traditions of the Oppressed: Popular Aesthetics and Layered Barrio Space Against the Erasure of Gentrification in AustinBen ChappellChapter 6: They Always Promise Toilets: Electoral Politics and Infrastructural Inequality in Post-Apartheid Cape TownAngela D. StoreySection 3: Difference and Proximity Chapter 7: Spaces of Migration and the Production of Inequalities in Santiago