Living politics in South Africa's urban shacklands /
While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in South Africa, most discussion centers on ideal forms of movements, disregarding the reality and agency of the activists themselves. In Living Politics, Kerry Ryan Chance radically flips the conversation by focusing on the actual langu...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1595766 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: elements of living politics
- Fire / Umlilo. "Where there is fire, there is politics": the material life of governance
- Water / Amanzi. Debts of liberal state transition: liquid belonging and consumer citizenship
- Air / Umoya. Coughing out the city: everyday healing in the toxic borderlands
- Land / Umhlaba. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust: how territorial informality builds future cities
- Modular elements. "The anger of the poor can go in many directions": rematerializing identity and difference
- Conclusion: liberal governance and the urban poor revisited.