Slum Planet

Planet Slums analyzes the history and present of slums, where one billion people still live in the urban areas of Third World countries. Davis makes a number of very important observations while describing the struggle of the poor to survive in dozens of megacities such as Mumbai, Cairo, Istanbul, Sao Paulo and Seoul. According to Davis, the measures developed by the states under the control of the IMF and the World Bank to solve this huge problem benefit the middle class, not the poor. While hundreds of thousands of poor people are forcibly evicted from the neighborhoods they live in every year, the middle class settles in the places they evacuate.

Examining urban poverty comparatively over a wide global geography stretching from Latin America to the Middle East, from Africa to South Asia, Davis reaches the following question: With the Pentagon declaring slums as the battlefields of the 21st century, earthquakes and floods Isn't there any connection between the fact that the poor who are exiled to slums suffer much more damage during natural disasters? Everyone should read this striking book, which creates a comprehensive map of the worldwide problem of poverty, which neoliberalism has both increased to unprecedented levels in history and ignored with great disgust.



Number of Pages: 264

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

First Print Year: 2007

Number of Pages: 264

Language Turkish