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Record Nr.

UNINA9910433250303321

Autore

Dehkordi Sara (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-7328-5310-1

3-8394-5310-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Edition Politik ; 99

Disciplina

307.760968

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.