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...
| Published in: | 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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