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Urban Violence Is not (Necessarily) a Way of Life: Towards a Political Economy of Conflict in Cities

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As the world moves towards its so-called urban 'tipping point', urbanization in the global South has increasingly come to be portrayed as the portent of a dystopian future characterized by ever-mounting levels of anarchy and brutality. The association between cities, violence, and disorder is not new, however. In a classic article on 'Urbanism as a way of life', Louis Wirth (1938: 23) famously links cities to 'personal disorganization, mental breakdown, suicide, delinquency, crime, corruption, and disorder'.

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  • Dennis Rodgers, 2010. "Urban Violence Is not (Necessarily) a Way of Life: Towards a Political Economy of Conflict in Cities," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2010-020, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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