Imagining the Cape Colony

Imagining the Cape Colony
Author: David Johnson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2013-09-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 074865089X

By returning to a pivotal moment in South African history - the Cape Colony in the period 1770-1830 - this book addresses current debates about nationalism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and postcolonial/post-apartheid culture.

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Total Pages: 2002
Release: 1912
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Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development

Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development
Author: Sara Dehkordi
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2020-07-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3732853101

In present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable life in city spaces and the public that uses the space. This book studies the ways in which segregated city spaces, displacement of people from their homes, and criminalization practices are structured and executed. Sara Dehkordi shows that these doctrines are being legitimized and legalized as part of a discursive practice and that the criminalization of lower-class members are part of that practice, not as random policing techniques of individual security forces, but as a technology of power that attends to the body, zooms in on it, screens it, and interrogates it.