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

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Dehkordi, Sara University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Author.

Contributor:

transcript: Open Library 2020 (Politik), Funder.

Series:

Edition Politik ; 99.

Edition Politik 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

#on("b")#Displacement; Segregation; South Africa; Urban Development; Inequality#off("b")#; Politics; Postcolonialism; Racism; Social Inequality; Space; Political Science;.

Local Subjects:

#on("b")#Displacement; Segregation; South Africa; Urban Development; Inequality#off("b")#; Politics; Postcolonialism; Racism; Social Inequality; Space; Political Science;.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file PDF

Biography/History:

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.__She has received the German Tiburtius Prize for outstanding research for her work leading to the book »Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development«.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Doctoral Thesis Freie Universität Berlin 2019

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

3-8394-5310-0

3-7328-5310-1

OCLC:

1198929458