POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Meat Cutter, Megacity, Sub-Saharan Africa
8 Apr 2017
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Reading 1 - mike davis: planet of the slums. American political activist, historian and urban theorist, who self-identifies as a. Work is known for analysis of social class and power. Wide range of jobs and life experiences ranging form meat cutter, truck driver, and a journalist to his present position as a professor at the university of. Was an activist for sds (students for a democratic society) He speaks as someone who knows what it is like to do and perform low level jobs. Knows how economic status marginalizes those doing that work. Worldwide, for the first time in human history, there are now more people living in cities than in the countryside. Because the global hinterland, (costal land and along river shores) has reached it"s max potential all future growth in the number of humans. 1950 - 86 cities with populations > 1 million. 2015 - 550 cities with populations > 1 million.
