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The Agonistic City? : State-society Strife in Johannesburg / Li Pernegger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pernegger, Li, author.
- Series:
- Politics and society in urban Africa
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Municipal government--South Africa--Johannesburg.
- Municipal government.
- Protest movements--South Africa--Johannesburg.
- Protest movements.
- Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Johannesburg (South Africa).
- Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions--21st century.
- Johannesburg (South Africa)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Johannesburg (South Africa)--Politics and government--21st century.
- South Africa--Johannesburg.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London : Zed, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- About the author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1: Strife and the state
- Urban uprising
- Agonism in democratic conflict management
- Johannesburg
- A brief outline
- 2: Agonism in public practice
- Why agonism?
- Innovations of agonism
- Limitations of agonism
- Applying agonism to practices of governance
- Conflict management in South Africa
- 3: Johannesburg's conflict and governance timeline
- Linking strife and Johannesburg's organisational development
- Apartheid political protests (pre-1996)
- Agonism in the transition period (1996-2000)
- Growing antagonism in the consolidation period (2001-2005)
- Consistent responses in the maturation period (2006-2010)
- Consolidating responses in the bureaucratisation period (2011-2015)
- Particularities of conflict management in Johannesburg
- 4: Water wars of Orange Farm
- Overwhelmed by urbanisation at the periphery
- Excluding the city's edge (1996-2000)
- Antagonism in the water wars (2001-2005)
- Antagonistic yet responsive to the poor (2006-2010)
- Standardising responses and planning for protests (2011-2015)
- Observations
- 5: Informal trading struggle in the Inner City
- Informal traders and the city administration
- Partly agonistic within the prioritised Inner City (1996-2000)
- Growing antagonism to informal trading (2001-2005)
- Zero tolerance approach towards trading (2006-2010)
- Sweeping clean and stalemate (2011-2015)
- 6: Billing backlash by middle-class suburbia
- Strife in middle-class suburbia
- Antagonism towards rates boycotters (1996-2000)
- Johannesburg strives to channel complaints (2001-2005)
- Hostility and billing bugs (2006-2010)
- Defensive at sabotage and secret agents, step change (2011-2015)
- 7: Agonism's possibilities
- Taking stock
- The agonistic city?
- What are agonism's practical possibilities?
- Final reflections
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 09, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pernegger, Li The Agonistic City? : State-society Strife in Johannesburg
- ISBN:
- 9781786999054
- 1786999056
- 9781786999078
- 1786999072
- 9781786999085
- 1786999080
- Publisher Number:
- 40030372222
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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