[audiobook] Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Reimagining Queer Identity (Latin American Gender and Sexualities) by Irune del Rio Gabiola at Arts-Photography

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Urbanization is one of the most powerful forces influencing global sustainability. It is dominated by three factors: population growth; rural-urban migration and subsequent urban expansion. Perhaps nowhere are these factors more dominant than in developing countries. This volume brings together leading experts including Alan Gilbert; John Friedmann; Saskia Sassen and Janice Perlman to explore the conflicting challenges of rapid urbanization in developing countries. While all have to contend with key issues such as social segregation; poverty; and loss of governability; the ongoing forces of urban growth vary from country to country. By comparing the challenges of urbanization in Africa; Latin America; Asia and the Pacific; this book puts forward a new way of thinking about mega- and million-cities in developing countries - one that promotes their vital function in society as engines of ideas; technologies; societal change; democratic transformation and loci of political will to build a new regime of global sustainability.