The “Dialectics of Toil”: Reflections on the Politics of Space after Apartheid.
Sixteen years since the end of the liberation struggle South Africa's cities have become crucial spaces of self-determination and lively community democracy. Yet their form has changed very little instead highlighting the persistence of poverty (and racism) within neoliberal, post-apartheid capitali...
| Publicado en: | Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 83; no. 3; pp. 551 - 581 |
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George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research
Summer 2010
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| Sumario: | Sixteen years since the end of the liberation struggle South Africa's cities have become crucial spaces of self-determination and lively community democracy. Yet their form has changed very little instead highlighting the persistence of poverty (and racism) within neoliberal, post-apartheid capitalism that the transition promised to end. This article explores the enduring quality of deep economic and social marginalization, specifically in the context of Cape Town's informal settlements, which reflect both collective desires for “rights to the city” and their denial. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. |
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