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

• Superior document: Edition Politik ; v.99
• Author: Dehkordi, Sara.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Politik
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Beginnings -- Impressions -- The book -- Chapter one -- The colonial archives repertoire -- Introduction -- Thinking archive with Derrida -- Coloniality and the archive -- The archive, institutionalisation, and the making of memory -- Archive and method -- Thinking the forbidden archive -- Coloniality and the Urban Development Discourse -- Imagining a third space -- Conclusion -- Chapter two -- Policies of Displacement - Forced Evictions and their Discursive Framing -- Introduction -- The District Six evictions -- The evictions of the Joe Slovo Residents -- The evictions in Symphony Way -- The Tafelsig evictions -- Blikkiesdorp -- Conclusion -- Chapter three -- "Cleaning" the streets - Urban Development Discourse and criminalisation practices -- Introduction -- Politico‐economic violence and the coloniality of the present -- The category of "the poor" and the disciplining effects of space -- Superfluous informal traders -- The security sector and the production of fear -- The business elite -- Urban Development Discourse and media -- Conclusion -- Chapter four -- Architectures of Division -- Introduction -- First coordinate: Table Mountain -- Second coordinate: Vredehoek Quarry -- Third coordinate: Victoria Road -- Fourth coordinate: Imizamo Yethu -- Fifth coordinate: Main Library, University of Stellenbosch -- Conclusion -- Chapter five -- Intervention through art - Performing is making visible -- Introduction -- Steven Cohen - The Chandelier -- The Xcollektiv - Non-Poor Only -- Ayesha Price - Save the Princess -- Donovan Ward - Living on the Edge -- Conclusion -- ConclusionS -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Books, journal articles, reports and court judgments.