In the novel Globalization, Utopia, and Postcolonial SF Chapter 5 “Mob Zombies, Alien Nations, and Cities of the Undead: Monstrous Subjects and the Post-Millennial Noms in I am Legend and District 9,” Smith relates the emergence of zombies to the gated communities and slums around the world. Corporations such as IMF and the World Bank seem to be the cause of these peri-urban slums because they hamstring developing countries such as Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. The zombie motif present in many films and novels, seems to be taken from these urban slums and the “savior” seems to represent the role of the corporations and gated communities. In the chapter, the “City of the Dead” is discussed and revealed to be inhabited by millions of people.
