Making Freedom
Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home
Seiten
2015
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5966-1 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5966-1 (ISBN)
Exploring the practices of squatting and illegal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town during and immediately following the end of apartheid, Anne-Maria Makhulu how these squatters engaged in an important form of resistance that helped to end apartheid.
In Making Freedom Anne-Maria Makhulu explores practices of squatting and illegal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town during and immediately following the end of apartheid. Apartheid's paradoxical policies of prohibiting migrant Africans who worked in Cape Town from living permanently within the city led some black families to seek safe haven on the city's perimeters. Beginning in the 1970s families set up makeshift tents and shacks and built whole communities, defying the state through what Makhulu calls a "politics of presence." In the simple act of building homes, squatters, who Makhulu characterizes as urban militants, actively engaged in a politics of "the right to the city" that became vital in the broader struggles for liberation. Despite apartheid's end in 1994, Cape Town’s settlements have expanded, as new forms of dispossession associated with South African neoliberalism perpetuate relations of spatial exclusion, poverty, and racism. As Makhulu demonstrates, the efforts of black Capetonians to establish claims to a place in the city not only decisively reshaped Cape Town's geography but changed the course of history.
In Making Freedom Anne-Maria Makhulu explores practices of squatting and illegal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town during and immediately following the end of apartheid. Apartheid's paradoxical policies of prohibiting migrant Africans who worked in Cape Town from living permanently within the city led some black families to seek safe haven on the city's perimeters. Beginning in the 1970s families set up makeshift tents and shacks and built whole communities, defying the state through what Makhulu calls a "politics of presence." In the simple act of building homes, squatters, who Makhulu characterizes as urban militants, actively engaged in a politics of "the right to the city" that became vital in the broader struggles for liberation. Despite apartheid's end in 1994, Cape Town’s settlements have expanded, as new forms of dispossession associated with South African neoliberalism perpetuate relations of spatial exclusion, poverty, and racism. As Makhulu demonstrates, the efforts of black Capetonians to establish claims to a place in the city not only decisively reshaped Cape Town's geography but changed the course of history.
Anne-Maria Makhulu is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University. She is a coeditor of Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities.
Acknowledgments vii
Prologue xi
Introduction 1
1. Migrations 27
2. Counterinsurgency 63
3. Transitions 95
4. "Reckoning" 129
Conclusion. Making Freedom 153
Notes 169
References 199
Index 221
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.10.2015 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 16 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-5966-9 / 0822359669 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-5966-1 / 9780822359661 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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