Cape Town after apartheid : crime and governance in the divided city /

Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the nation look? In Cape Town, is hardening inequality under conditions of neoliberal globalization actually reproducing the repressive governance of the apartheid era? By exploring issues of urban security and...

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Main Author: Samara, Tony Roshan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : urban geopolitics, neoliberalism, and the governance of security
  • Security and development in post-apartheid South Africa
  • Children in the streets : urban governance in Cape Town city center
  • Gangsterism and the policing of the Cape Flats
  • The weight of policing on the fragile ground of transformation
  • The production of criminality on the urban periphery
  • Conclusion : apartheid, democracy and the urban future.