Introduction: The Duality of Latin American Cityscapes

Part I: Fractured Cities, Second-Class Citizenship, and Urban Violence

Urban poverty, desborde popular and the erosion of the formal social order
From desborde popular to desborde de la violencia : conceptualising exclusion, insecurity and violence
Armed actors and violence brokers
The politics of urban violence
Parallel power and perverse integration

Part II: Rio de Janeiro

Introduction
Favela-Related Violence
Impact on Education
Motives for involvement in drug-trading
Police and Community - Negative Dialogues
Political-Administrative Constraints
Police Oversight and the Lack of Political Will - Costs and Consequences
Conclusions

Part III: Mexico City

Violence as fact and phantom
Metropolitan structure and security governance
Patterns and actors of insecurity and violence
Governmental and societal responses and strategies
Conclusions

Part IV: Medelli.

History of urban violence in Medellin
Daily life under guerrillas and paramilitaries
A promising peace process with paramilitaries
Concluding remarks

Part V: Managua

Introduction
Barrio Luis Fanor Hern ndez: Past and Present
Drugs, material wealth, and conspicuous consumption
Consumption, cultural exclusion, and predation
Violence and primitive accumulation
Conclusion

Part VI: Caracas

Divided Caracas
The advent of violence in Caracas
Forms of violence
Fear as an urban sentiment
The loss of the city
Democracy and violence in the city

Part VII: Lima Metropolitana

City of informales
New social actors and new forms of popular organisation
Low-Intensity Violence
Conclusion

Part VII:

Living in Fear: How the Urban Poor Perceive Violence, Fear and Insecurity
Cathy McIlwaine and Caroline O.N. Moser
The Diversity and Complexity of Violence among the Urban Poor
Urban Poor Constructions of Fear: Social Fragmentation and Spatial Restrictions
The Legitimization of Violence among the Urban Poor I: The Emergence of Perverse Social Organizations
The Legitimization of Violence among the Urban Poor II: Inadequate State Security and Judicial Protection
Non-violent Coping: a Gendered Response
Conclusions

Epilogue: Latin America's Urban Duality Revisited

Bibliography
Index