Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and
women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South …

Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought
together in a former sundown town in Illinois. Recruited to work in the local meat-processing …

Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social
protection programmes to tackle poverty. Poverty is perpetuated by risk and vulnerability …

The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of
urbanization in the developing world. The Reader incorporates both early and emerging …

This paper is in conversation with two important bodies of literature: one on informal
settlements (informal and insurgent grassroots practices) and another on camps (spatial …

This multisited global ethnography concerns the intimate and unequal relationships that
connect revitalization of a Midwestern packing town to development processes in immigrant …

Feminist social reproduction scholarship has shown how reproductive labor is critical in
understanding the evolving dynamics of global capitalism. However, more work is needed to …

Originally conceived as small-scale loans allowing impoverished women to invest in
informal sector economic opportunities, microfinance programs have grown rapidly across …

This chapter highlights the involvement of Solidaritas Perempuan, an Indonesian feminist
organization, in its invocation of the human right to water to demand greater access to and …

It is estimated that 70% of sub-Saharan Africa's urban population resides in informal
settlements. Cape Town (South Africa), in particular, has a projected 223 informal …