Development Poverty and Politics

Martin, Richard A.; Mathema, Ashna S.

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“…This study is based on youth living in low-income formal and informal neighborhoods that the United Nations (UN) refers to as slums in India and Brazil. It defines a slum household as ‘one that lacks any of the following five elements: access to improved water, access to improved sanitation, security of tenure, durability of housing, and sufficient living area’ (Martin and Mathema, 2009). Most slums are situated in the global south.…”

Section: Why Low-income Urban Spaces In the Global South As Sites Of mentioning

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Slumdog romance: Facebook love and digital privacy at the margins

Arora

Scheiber

2017

Media, Culture & Society

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Facebook has consolidated its position as the one-stop-shop for social activity among the poor in the global South. Sex, romance, and love are key motivations for mobile and Internet technology usage among this demographic, much like the West. Digital romance is a critical context through which we gain fresh perspectives on Internet governance for an emerging digital and globalizing public. Revenge porn, slut-shaming, and Internet romance scams are a common and growing malady worldwide. Focusing on how it manifests in diverse digital cultures will aid in the shaping of new Internet laws for a more inclusive cross-cultural public. In specific, this article examines how low-income youth in two of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations – Brazil and India – exercise and express their notions on digital privacy, surveillance, and trust through the lens of romance. This allows for a more thorough investigation of the relationship between sexuality, morality, and governance within the larger Facebook ecology. As Facebook becomes the dominant virtual public sphere for the world’s poor, we are compelled to ask whether inclusivity of the digital users comes at the price of diversity of digital platforms.

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Section: Why Low-income Urban Spaces In the Global South As Sites Of mentioning

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Slumdog romance: Facebook love and digital privacy at the margins

Arora

Scheiber

2017

Media, Culture & Society

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“…However, for reasons that are unclear and warrant further investigation, the concept appears to have lost currency after the 1980s. It has reappeared only occasionally in the urban planning and development literatures (Martin and Mathema 2010;Wamsler 2007;Wang 2015;Zinn, Lyons, and Hinojosa 1993), and does not appear to have been implemented at scale in recent decades. 12 What roles could barefoot planners assume in smaller urban settlements of today's rapidly urbanizing countries?…”

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Urbanization beyond the Metropolis: Planning for a Large Number of Small Places in the Global South

Randolph

Deuskar

2020

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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How are urban population and its growth distributed across urban settlements of different sizes? In the Global South, this is a critical planning question, yet its answer is muddled by contradictory claims in the literature and inconsistent data. Using a new dataset measuring urbanization from 1975 to 2015, we find that urban populations in the South are less concentrated in megacities than in the North—contrary to conventional wisdom. Given an explosion in the number (not simply size) of urban settlements in the South, we suggest reviving the concept of “barefoot planning” as an approach for empowering communities beyond the metropolis to shape the urbanization process.

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Development Poverty and Politics

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Slumdog romance: Facebook love and digital privacy at the margins

Slumdog romance: Facebook love and digital privacy at the margins

Urbanization beyond the Metropolis: Planning for a Large Number of Small Places in the Global South

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