Delivery As Dispossession

Author : Zachary Levenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197629277

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Delivery as Dispossession by Zachary Levenson Pdf

A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa. In post-apartheid South Africa, nearly a fifth of the urban population lives in shacks. Unable to wait any longer for government housing, people occupy land, typically seeking to fly under the state's radar. Yet in most cases, occupiers wind up in dialogue with the state. In Delivery as Dispossession, Zachary Levenson follows this journey from avoidance to incorporation, explaining how the post-apartheid Constitution shifts squatters' struggles onto the judicial register. Providing a comparative ethnographic account of two land occupations in Cape Town and highlighting occupiers' struggles, Levenson further demonstrates why it is that housing officials seek the eviction of all new occupations: they view these unsanctioned settlements as a threat to the order they believe is required for delivery. Yet in evicting occupiers, he argues, they reproduce the problem anew, with subsequent rounds of land occupation as the inevitable consequence. Offering a unique framework for thinking about local states, this book proposes a novel theory of the state that will change the way ethnographers think about politics.

Author : Robert Home
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030525040

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Land Issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa by Robert Home Pdf

Sub-Saharan Africa faces many development challenges, such as its size and diversity, rapid urban population growth, history of colonial exploitation, fragile states and conflicts over land and natural resources. This collection, contributed from different academic disciplines and professions, seeks to support the UN Habitat New Urban Agenda passed at Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador, in 2016. It will attract readers from urban specialisms in law, geography and other social sciences, and from professionals and policy-makers concerned with land use planning, surveying and governance. Among the topics addressed by the book are challenges to governance institutions: how international development is delivered, building land management capacity, funding for urban infrastructure, land-based finance, ineffective planning regulation, and the role of alternatives to courts in resolving boundary and other land disputes. Issues of rights and land titling are explored from perspectives of human rights law (the right to development, and women's rights of access to land), and land tenure regularization. Particular challenges of housing, planning and informality are addressed through contributions on international real estate investment, community participation in urban settlement upgrading, housing delivery as a partly failing project to remedy apartheid's legacy, and complex interactions between political power, money and land. Infrastructure challenges are approached in studies of food security and food systems, urban resilience against natural and man-made disasters, and informal public transport.

Author : Marlene Goldman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773539501

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DisPossession by Marlene Goldman Pdf

An exploration into the darker aspects of contemporary Canadian fiction.

Author : Pete Daniel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469602028

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Dispossession by Pete Daniel Pdf

Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival in a capital-intensive farm structure. More than a matter of neglect of these farmers and their rights, this "passive nullification" consisted of a blizzard of bureaucratic obfuscation, blatant acts of discrimination and cronyism, violence, and intimidation. Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement.

Author : Allan Greer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107160644

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Property and Dispossession by Allan Greer Pdf

Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.

Author : Maria Grasso,Marco Giugni
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803921235

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Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology by Maria Grasso,Marco Giugni Pdf

This comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedia, featuring entries written by academic experts in the field, explores the diverse topics within the discipline of political sociology. By looking at both macro- and micro-components, questions relating to nation-states, political institutions and their development, and the sources of social and political change such as social movements and other forms of contentious politics, are raised and critically analysed.

Author : Tom Beaudoin
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570757853

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Witness to Dispossession by Tom Beaudoin Pdf

Tom Beaudoin's first book, Virtual Faith, celebrated the spiritual quest of Generation X and established his reputation as one of the most astute critics of contemporary faith and culture. In this collection of essays he reflects on the task and purpose of theology in a post-modern age. Beaudoin sketches a view of the theologian as a "witness to dispossession." This dispossession involves the letting go of status and power, but also the comfortable certainties of the past. Book jacket.

Author : Robert Nichols
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478007500

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Theft Is Property! by Robert Nichols Pdf

Drawing on Indigenous peoples' struggles against settler colonialism, Theft Is Property! reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present. Through close analysis of arguments by Indigenous scholars and activists from the nineteenth century to the present, Robert Nichols argues that dispossession has come to name a unique recursive process whereby systematic theft is the mechanism by which property relations are generated. In so doing, Nichols also brings long-standing debates in anarchist, Black radical, feminist, Marxist, and postcolonial thought into direct conversation with the frequently overlooked intellectual contributions of Indigenous peoples.

Author : An Ansoms,Thea Hilhorst
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847011053

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Losing Your Land by An Ansoms,Thea Hilhorst Pdf

Examines a new aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing Africa today-land-grabbing-and shows the widespread impact of small-scale dispossession.

Author : Judith Butler,Athena Athanasiou
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745664354

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Dispossession by Judith Butler,Athena Athanasiou Pdf

Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to the disenfranchisement associated with unjust dispossession of land, economic and political power, and basic conditions for living? In the context of neoliberal expropriation of labor and livelihood, dispossession opens up a performative condition of being both affected by injustice and prompted to act. From the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa to the anti-neoliberal gatherings at Puerta del Sol, Syntagma and Zucchotti Park, an alternative political and affective economy of bodies in public is being formed. Bodies on the street are precarious - exposed to police force, they are also standing for, and opposing, their dispossession. These bodies insist upon their collective standing, organize themselves without and against hierarchy, and refuse to become disposable: they demand regard. This book interrogates the agonistic and open-ended corporeality and conviviality of the crowd as it assembles in cities to protest political and economic dispossession through a performative dispossession of the sovereign subject and its propriety.

Author : Akomaye Yanou
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789956715879

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Dispossession and Access to Land in South Africa. An African Perspective by Akomaye Yanou Pdf

This book deals with the conceptualization of access to land by the dispossessed in South Africa as a human right. Yanou examines the country's property model in the context of the post apartheid constitutional mandate to redress the skewed land distribution of the past. The book reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the land restitution process as well as the question of the payment of just and equitable compensation for land expropriated for restitution. It also reviews the phenomenon of land invasion and quality of access to land enjoyed by the South African black woman under the present dispensation. Yanou argues that the courts have, on occasions, construed just and equitable compensation generously. This approach has failed to reflect the fact that what is being paid for is land dispossessed from the forebears of indigenous inhabitants. In a South Africa that lost most of its ancestral land during colonialism and apartheid, access to land for the dispossessed should not be equated with the protection of property acquired under apartheid. Getting it right would entail truth and reconciliation with the collective dispossession suffered by South African blacks.

Author : S. Motta,A. Gunvald Nilsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230302044

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Social Movements in the Global South by S. Motta,A. Gunvald Nilsen Pdf

Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of understanding contemporary social movements. This book shows how social movements in Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East politicize development in an age of neoliberal hegemony.

Author : Henry Reynolds
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1864481412

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Dispossession by Henry Reynolds Pdf

Aboriginal and immigrant Australians have shared this continent for 200 years. Nineteenth century writers were aware of the importance of the Aboriginal presence, but when the colonists began to write their own history the Aborigines were erased from the account. Recently, this “history” has been overturned as we rediscover the role of Aborigines in our past. In this collection of documents our forebears speak for themselves. They present a fascinating picture of how they endeavored to come to terms—emotionally, morally and intellectually—with the victims of the dispossession. This fascinating collection, compiled by a leading authority on white-Aboriginal relations, challenges the general reader to reinterpret our past. It will prove invaluable to students of history and race relations in schools, colleges and universities. The Australian Experience explores major themes in Australia's history in a lively, accessible manner. Dispossession is the fifth book in the series.

Author : Yousuf Al-Bulushi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031424335

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Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City by Yousuf Al-Bulushi Pdf

Author : Dr. Madhusudan Saharay
Publisher : Universal Law Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8175348631

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Textbook on Sale of Goods and Hire Purchase by Dr. Madhusudan Saharay Pdf