Endurance in the city victorious

between what a reader may come to the text knowing about urban politics in the Global South, what they expect to hear and what they hope the book will or will not do. The book refuses to stay still in-between those readings. It is a moving text, in the many meanings of the word. It constantly surprises, leaves and arrives, and takes the reader with it. Arguably, this is what the Global South is all about, or at least that is what Rio has always felt like to me – and to capture that feeling of the South is no small feat. Declaration of Conflicting Interests