Spatial Justice After Apartheid

Author : Jaco Barnard-Naudé,Julia Chryssostalis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351363471

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Spatial Justice After Apartheid by Jaco Barnard-Naudé,Julia Chryssostalis Pdf

This book considers the question of spatial justice after apartheid from several disciplinary perspectives – jurisprudence, law, literature, architecture, photography and psychoanalysis are just some of the disciplines engaged here. However, the main theoretical device on which the authors comment is the legacy of what in Carl Schmitt’s terms is nomos as the spatialised normativity of sociality. Each author considers within the practical and theoretical constraints of their topic, the question of what nomos in its modern configuration may or may not contribute to a thinking of spatial justice after apartheid. On the whole, the collection forces a confrontation between law’s spatiality in a “postcolonial” era, on the one hand, and the traumatic legacy of what Paul Gilroy has called the “colonial nomos”, on the other hand. In the course of this confrontation, critical questions of continuation, extension, disruption and rewriting are raised and confronted in novel and innovative ways that both challenge Schmitt’s account of nomos and affirm the centrality of the constitutive relation between law and space. The book promises to resituate the trajectory of nomos, while considering critical instances through which the spatial legacy of apartheid might at last be overcome. This interdisciplinary book will appeal to scholars of critical legal theory, political philosophy, aesthetics and architecture.

Author : Peter Ahmad,Graeme Gotz,Alison Todes,Chris Wray
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781868148134

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Changing Space, Changing City by Peter Ahmad,Graeme Gotz,Alison Todes,Chris Wray Pdf

As the dynamo of South Africa’s economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation’s imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This book offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city’s physical space, as well as a host of chapters on the character of specific neighbourhoods and the social identities being forged within them. Informing all of these is a consideration of underlying economic, social and political processes shaping the wider Gauteng province. A mix of respected academics, practising urban planners and experienced policymakers offer compelling overviews of the rapid and complex spatial developments that have taken place in Johannesburg since the end of apartheid, along with tantalising glimpses into life on the streets and behind the high walls of this diverse city. The book has three sections. Section A provides an overview of macro spatial trends and the policies that have influenced them. Section B explores the shaping of the city at district and suburban level, revealing the peculiarity of processes in different areas. This analysis elucidates the larger trends, while identifying shifts that are not easily detected at the macro level. Section C is an assembly of chapters and short vignettes that focus on the interweaving of place and identity at a micro level. With empirical data supported by new data sets including the 2011 Census, the city’s Development Planning and Urban Management Department’s information system, and Gauteng City-Region Observatory’s substantial archive, the book is an essential reference for planning practitioners, urban geographers, sociologists, and social anthropologists, among others.

Author : Stephan de Beer
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781928480853

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Clown of the City by Stephan de Beer Pdf

At opening this book, everything one has learned or thought about “urban ministry” is challenged, and changed. Stephan de Beer offers a fresh, exciting and thoroughly engaging approach. The title is enticing and playful, but the book is a serious grappling with the daunting realities of a shadowed, marginalised, urban life. It does not theorise or pontificate about a concept. The author is not a distant, neutral observer. He is an engaged minister to the people, a struggler in their struggles, prophet to the powerful. This book invites the reader to join the people of the cities under siege by failed policies, empty promises, and disastrous politics, in their struggles for meaningful life, and it makes a powerful, persuasive case. Stephan de Beer has offered us a great gift and a wonderful opportunity to think and hope anew, and differently, about the life, reality, and future of the city.

Author : Sophie Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351185776

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Spatial Justice in the City by Sophie Watson Pdf

In the context of increasing division and segregation in cities across the world, along with pressing concerns around austerity, environmental degradation, homelessness, violence, and refugees, this book pursues a multidisciplinary approach to spatial justice in the city. Spatial justice has been central to urban theorists in various ways. Intimately connected to social justice, it is a term implicated in relations of power which concern the spatial distribution of resources, rights and materials. Arguably there can be no notion of social justice that is not spatial. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos has argued that spatial justice is the struggle of various bodies – human, natural, non-organic, technological – to occupy a certain space at a certain time. As such, urban planning and policy interventions are always, to some extent at least, about spatial justice. And, as cities become ever more unequal, it is crucial that urbanists address questions of spatial justice in the city. To this end, this book considers these questions from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Crossing law, sociology, history, cultural studies, and geography, the book’s overarching concern with how to think spatial justice in the city brings a fresh perspective to issues that have concerned urbanists for several decades. The inclusion of empirical work in London brings the political, social, and cultural aspects of spatial justice to life. The book will be of interest to academics and students in the field of urban studies, sociology, geography, planning, space law, and cultural studies.

Author : Liza Rose Cirolia,Tristan Görgens,Mirjan van Donk,Warren Smit,Scott Drimie
Publisher : Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781775820833

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Upgrading Informal Settlements in South Africa by Liza Rose Cirolia,Tristan Görgens,Mirjan van Donk,Warren Smit,Scott Drimie Pdf

More than 1.2 million households in South Africa live in informal settlements, without access to adequate shelter, services or secure tenure. There has been a gradual shift to upgrading these informal settlements in recent years, and there have been some innovative experiments. Upgrading Informal Settlements in South Africa: a partnership-based approach examines the successes and challenges of informal settlement upgrading initiatives in South Africa and contextualises these experiences within global debates about informal settlement upgrading and urban transformation. The book discusses: · The South African informal settlement upgrading agenda from local, national and international perspectives · South African ‘city experiences’ with informal housing and upgrading · The role of partnerships, actors and capabilities in pursuing an incremental upgrading agenda · Tools, instruments and methodologies for incremental upgrading · Implications of the upgrading agenda for the transformation of cities The book has been written and edited by a wide range of practitioners and researchers from government, NGOs, the private sector and academia. It covers theory and practice and represents a vast accumulated body of housing experience in South Africa.

Author : Anthony Lemon,Ronnie Donaldson,Gustav Visser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030730734

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South African Urban Change Three Decades After Apartheid by Anthony Lemon,Ronnie Donaldson,Gustav Visser Pdf

This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades. It draws on a seminal text, Homes Apart, and revisits conclusions drawn in that collection that marked the final phases of urban apartheid. It highlights changes in demography, social as well as economic structure and their differential spatial expression across a range of urban sites in South Africa. The evidence presented in this book points to a very complex set of narratives in urban South Africa and one that cannot be reduced to a singular statement so the conclusions of the various investigations are in many ways open. As urban apartheid represented one clear outcome, its post-apartheid urban legacies varies greatly from city to city. As such this book is a great resource to students and academics focused on urban change in South African cities since the demise of apartheid, and scholars of urban policy-making in South Africa and Southern urbanists generally.

Author : Yousuf Al-Bulushi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031424335

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

Author : Adefemi Olayide Adegeye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1119719788

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Exploring the Fragments of Spatial Justice in an Attempt to Promote Spatially Just Development in South African Urban Regions by Adefemi Olayide Adegeye Pdf

For the past two decades in South Africa, there have been various efforts aimed at restructuring the distorted and fragmented spatial form, re-integrating the fragmented spaces and communities and creating sustainable development in general. These aspiring goals were not realised as expected, mainly due to an (un)just government and planning system. A major milestone was however achieved in 2013, after more than a decade℗þs efforts and struggles to develop the first real planning act for South Africa, namely the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013 (SPLUMA). It is enlightening to note that one of the five main planning principles on which the act is based, emphasises the notion of ©Ø2́Ơ¿3spatial justice©Ø2́Ơ℗+ which constitutes a policy of inclusion with regard to previously disadvantaged people as well as certain planning and development areas. The National Development Plan (NDP) 2030 also proposed normative principles for spatial development in South Africa of which spatial justice is one of these principles. The NDP 2030 requires an explicit indication of the ways in which to achieve the requirements of spatial justice. The term ©Ø2́Ơ¿3spatial justice©Ø2́Ơ℗+ had been missing from literature for more than 30 years, only to resurface in 2010 as a concept that was under-theorised at best. The question to be asked is ©Ø2́Ơ¿3What is spatial justice and how can it change any landscape, most importantly the South African apartheid landscape?©Ø2́Ơ℗+ The research at hand will investigate the concept of spatial justice by carrying out a metasynthesis of theories, discourses and concepts related to space, justice and the right to the city. The result of the meta-synthesis will assist in developing a working definition of spatial justice and the requirements needed to achieve it namely equity, democracy, diversity as well as just distribution based on need or merit. The study goes further in mapping and assessing spatial justice in certain key areas that were identified as critical nodes in an attempt to achieve spatial justice in a city using the City of Tshwane as a reference city. This revealed possible gaps and future opportunities in support of spatial justice e.g. how to integrate communities and where to provide additional public transport. Mapping and assessing spatial justice allow municipalities to plan better because of the fact that assessment provides important information for future planning and development, identification of priority projects and infrastructure as well as ultimately enhancing the budgeting process in the Integrated Development Plan.

Author : Christi van der Westhuizen,Siphiwe Dube,Zwelethu Jolobe
Publisher : Mandela University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781998959051

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The D-Word: Perspectives on Democracy in Tumultuous Times by Christi van der Westhuizen,Siphiwe Dube,Zwelethu Jolobe Pdf

This curated collection engages international debates about the current challenges facing democracy. Given the proliferation of “crisis” literature on democracy, this volume finds its distinctive niche in presenting perspectives from the global margins that bridge disciplinary, sectoral, national and conceptual divides. South Africans enter into conversation with scholars and activists from elsewhere in the Global South, including the Arab world and the rest of Africa, and from the European periphery. Insights on democracy are offered from a diversity of perspectives and voices, spanning philosophy, socio-legal and political studies, sociology, public administration, and queer and gender studies and activism. The book will be of interest to academics, activists, policymakers, development planners, and the general public. The D-Word is a timely contribution addressing burning questions: are current contestations about the relevance of democracy due to systemic flaws in how it is constituted, received, practised and even imagined, and can the democratic “project” be salvaged? The book’s unique approach brings a variety of lenses to bear on the prospects for democracy. The critical reflections it contains make for an enriching, broad canvas of ideas. - Professor Sandy Africa, University of Pretoria

Author : Edward W. Soja
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452915289

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Seeking Spatial Justice by Edward W. Soja Pdf

In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the city’s poorest residents. A stunning reversal of conventional governance and planning in urban America, which almost always favors wealthier residents, this decision is also, for renowned urban theorist Edward W. Soja, a concrete example of spatial justice in action. In Seeking Spatial Justice, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a basic human right. Building on current concerns in critical geography and the new spatial consciousness, Soja interweaves theory and practice, offering new ways of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live. After tracing the evolution of spatial justice and the closely related notion of the right to the city in the influential work of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and others, he demonstrates how these ideas are now being applied through a series of case studies in Los Angeles, the city at the forefront of this movement. Soja focuses on such innovative labor–community coalitions as Justice for Janitors, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, and the Right to the City Alliance; on struggles for rent control and environmental justice; and on the role that faculty and students in the UCLA Department of Urban Planning have played in both developing the theory of spatial justice and putting it into practice. Effectively locating spatial justice as a theoretical concept, a mode of empirical analysis, and a strategy for social and political action, this book makes a significant contribution to the contemporary debates about justice, space, and the city.

Author : Isabel Hofmeyr,Charne Lavery,Sarah Nuttall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000937138

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Reading for Water by Isabel Hofmeyr,Charne Lavery,Sarah Nuttall Pdf

An experiment in reading for water, this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory, political and agentive power of water across literary texts. The chapters in this book follow rivers, rain, streams, tunnels and sewers; connect atmospheric, surface and ground water; describe competing hydrological traditions and hydro-epistemologies. They propose new literary regions defined less by nation and area than by coastlines, river basins, monsoons, currents and hydro-cosmologies. Whether thinking along water courses, below the water line, or through the fall of precipitation, Reading for Water moves laterally, vertically and contrapuntally between different water-worlds and hydro-imaginaries. Addressing southern African and Caribbean texts, the collection draws on a range of elementally inclined literary approaches: critical oceanic studies, new materialisms, coastal and hydrocritical approaches, hydrocolonialism, black hydropoetics and atmospheric methods. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Interventions.

Author : Jaco Barnard-Naude
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000427561

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Decolonising the Neoliberal University by Jaco Barnard-Naude Pdf

Taking the postcolonial – or, more specifically, the post-apartheid – university as its focus, the book takes the violence and the trauma of the global neoliberal hegemony as its central point of reference. Following a primarily psychoanalytic line of enquiry, it engages a range of disciplines – law, philosophy, literature, gender studies, cultural studies and political economy – in order better to understand the conditions of possibility of an emancipatory, or decolonised, higher education. And this in the context of both the inter-generational transmission of the trauma of colonialism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the trauma of neoliberal subjectivity in the postcolonial university. Oriented around an important lecture by Jacqueline Rose, the volume contains contributions from world-renowned authors, such as Judith Butler and Achille Mbembe, as well as numerous legal and other theorists who share their concern with interrogating the contemporary crisis in higher education. This truly interdisciplinary collection will appeal to a wide range of readers right across the humanities, but especially those with substantial interests in the contemporary state of the university, as well as those with theoretical interests in postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, gender studies, cultural studies, jurisprudence and law.

Author : Jaco Barnard-Naude
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000929065

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Spectres of Reparation in South Africa by Jaco Barnard-Naude Pdf

This book argues that South Africa is haunted by the spectre of reparation. The failure of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to secure adequate reparation for the victims of colonisation and apartheid continues to drastically undermine the commission’s processes and legacy. Investigating the TRC’s key processes of amnesty, archiving and forgiveness in turn, the book demonstrates that each process is fundamentally thwarted by the terminal lack of reparation. These multiple forms of the spectre of reparation haunt post-apartheid society in deeply traumatogenic ways. The book proposes a new ethic of "reparative citizenship" as a means of encountering the spectres of reparation in a productive and transformative manner, generating hope even in the face of the irreparable. This book will be an important read for South Africans interested in overcoming the impasses and injustices that haunt the country, but it will also be of interest to post-conflict transitional justice and politics researchers more broadly.

Author : Kim Wale,Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela,Jeffrey Prager
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030390778

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Post-Conflict Hauntings by Kim Wale,Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela,Jeffrey Prager Pdf

This book engages the globally pressing question of how to live and work with the haunting power of the past in the aftermath of mass violence. It brings together a collection of interdisciplinary contributions to reflect on the haunting of post-conflict memory from the perspective of diverse country case studies including South Africa, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Northern Ireland, North and South Korea, Palestine and Israel, America and Australia. Contributions offer theoretical, empirical and practical insights on the nature of historical trauma and practices of collective healing and repair that include embodied, artistic and culturally relevant forms of wisdom for dealing with the past. While this question has traditionally been explored through the lens of trauma studies in relation to the post-Holocaust experience, this book provides new understandings from a variety of different historical contexts and disciplinary perspectives. Its chapters draw on, challenge and expand the trauma concept to propose more contextually relevant frameworks for transforming haunted memory in the aftermath of historical trauma.

Author : Christoph Haferburg,Jürgen Ossenbrügge
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 3825866998

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Ambiguous Restructurings of Post-apartheid Cape Town by Christoph Haferburg,Jürgen Ossenbrügge Pdf

What will tomorrow's Cape Town look like? This volume reflects a variety of aspects of urban development and restructuring efforts in Cape Town in the last years. A focus lies on the question if the "apartheid city" is reproducing itself. This leads to an evaluation whether current policies really counter societal imbalances. The essays presented here illuminate possible pathways towards the urban futures unfolding in a South African city in transition.