Living Politics in South Africa's Urban Shacklands by Kerry Ryan Chance

Author:Kerry Ryan Chance [Chance, Kerry Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, Political Science, World, African, History, Africa, South, Republic of South Africa, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Developing & Emerging Countries
ISBN: 9780226519661
Google: 3mxaDwAAQBAJ
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Goodreads: 34524461
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

The Delft transit camp, prepaid electricity lines, and police vehicle. (Photo by author)

From Cape Town to Durban to Johannesburg, whether for reasons of livelihood, location, or autonomy, residents are protesting against transit camps through increasingly cross regional and translocal political and legal networks. Residents in the Delft and other camps would hear about a march by word of mouth from neighbors, for instance, at community meetings, at the water taps, at taxi ranks, via cell phone text messages, or literally seeing it unfold on the streets. Like Monique, those protesting have been arrested, shot at by police, and portrayed by officials as thwarting urban development. As an Abahlali press statement put it, the camps project an indefinite and precarious future for shack dwellers:

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