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Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development : Forced Evictions and Criminalisation Practices in Present-Day South Africa.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dehkordi, Sara.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Edition Politik
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Beginnings
  • Impressions
  • The book
  • Chapter one
  • The colonial archives repertoire
  • Introduction
  • Thinking archive with Derrida
  • Coloniality and the archive
  • The archive, institutionalisation, and the making of memory
  • Archive and method
  • Thinking the forbidden archive
  • Coloniality and the Urban Development Discourse
  • Imagining a third space
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter two
  • Policies of Displacement - Forced Evictions and their Discursive Framing
  • Introduction
  • The District Six evictions
  • The evictions of the Joe Slovo Residents
  • The evictions in Symphony Way
  • The Tafelsig evictions
  • Blikkiesdorp
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter three
  • "Cleaning" the streets - Urban Development Discourse and criminalisation practices
  • Introduction
  • Politico‐economic violence and the coloniality of the present
  • The category of "the poor" and the disciplining effects of space
  • Superfluous informal traders
  • The security sector and the production of fear
  • The business elite
  • Urban Development Discourse and media
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter four
  • Architectures of Division
  • Introduction
  • First coordinate: Table Mountain
  • Second coordinate: Vredehoek Quarry
  • Third coordinate: Victoria Road
  • Fourth coordinate: Imizamo Yethu
  • Fifth coordinate: Main Library, University of Stellenbosch
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter five
  • Intervention through art - Performing is making visible
  • Introduction
  • Steven Cohen - The Chandelier
  • The Xcollektiv - Non-Poor Only
  • Ayesha Price - Save the Princess
  • Donovan Ward - Living on the Edge
  • Conclusion
  • ConclusionS
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Books, journal articles, reports and court judgments.

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