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

Sara Dehkordi

book: Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2020

Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development

Forced Evictions and Criminalisation Practices in Present-Day South Africa

Sara Dehkordi
Funded by: transcript: Open Library 2020 (Politik)

Volume 99 in the series Edition Politik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839453100

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About this book

In present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable life in city spaces and the public that uses the space. This book studies the ways in which segregated city spaces, displacement of people from their homes, and criminalization practices are structured and executed. Sara Dehkordi shows that these doctrines are being legitimized and legalized as part of a discursive practice and that the criminalization of lower-class members are part of that practice, not as random policing techniques of individual security forces, but as a technology of power that attends to the body, zooms in on it, screens it, and interrogates it.

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Sara Dehkordi is a lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin. She teaches postcolonial and decolonial theories, on colonial genocide, the Negritude and Black Consciousness Movement, neoliberal urbanism, and critical peace and conflict studies. For her study leading to this book she has received the German Tiburtius Prize for outstanding research.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	13
Chapter one. The colonial archives repertoire Open Access Download PDF	29
Chapter two. Policies of Displacement – Forced Evictions and their Discursive Framing Open Access Download PDF	67
Chapter three. “Cleaning” the streets – Urban Development Discourse and criminalisation practices Open Access Download PDF	97
Chapter four. Architectures of Division Open Access Download PDF	161
Chapter five. Intervention through art – Performing is making visible Open Access Download PDF	209
Conclusions Open Access Download PDF	241
Epilogue Open Access Download PDF	247
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	251

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 262
Keywords: Segregation; South Africa; Urban Development; Inequality#off("b")#; Politics; Postcolonialism; Racism; Social Inequality; Space; Political Science

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Published: July 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839453100