Segregation, inequality, and urban development : forced evictions and criminalisation practices in present-day South Africa / Sara Dehkordi.

By:

Dehkordi, Sara [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Edition Politik ; Bd. 99.Publisher: Bielefeld [Germany] : Transcript Verlag, 2020Description: 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9783839453100
3839453100
9783732853106
3732853101

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Segregation, inequality, and urban development.DDC classification:

307.760968 23

LOC classification:

HT148.S6 D44 2020

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter one. The colonial archives repertoire -- Chapter two. Policies of Displacement -- Forced Evictions and their Discursive Framing -- Chapter three. "Cleaning" the streets -- Urban Development Discourse and criminalisation practices -- Chapter four. Architectures of Division -- Chapter five. Intervention through art -- Performing is making visible -- Conclusions -- Epilogue -- Bibliography

Summary: In present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable ife 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 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. -- taken from back cover.

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In present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable ife 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 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. -- taken from back cover.

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