Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City (Contemporary African Political Economy)

by: Yousuf Al-Bulushi (Author)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 30 Mar. 2024

Language: English

Print Length: 239 pages

ISBN-10: 3031424328

ISBN-13: 9783031424328

Book Description

How are poor people in South Africa confronting the persistent legacy of apartheid spatial segregation and anti-blackness? And what can movements across the world engaged in a global struggle against racial capitalism lea from the South African experience? This book explores the relationship between shack dwellers and the municipal govement in South Africa. Grounded in the local realities of the struggle for housing and basic survival, the project makes broader interventions in national, continental and global debates about urban geography, African studies, social movements and race. The author argues that the shack settlement is emblematic of a democratic South Africa still profoundly shaped by apartheid's afterlife.