- Title
- Politics in the slum: a view from South Africa
- Creator
- Pithouse, Richard, 1970-
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6209
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008579
- Description
- [From introduction]The modern state, and its civil society, have always been comfortable with workers in their allotted place – be it formed around the immediate needs of industrial production, like the migrant workers hostels in apartheid South Africa or contemporary Dubai, or an attempt at creating a haven, like the suburban home which has its roots in the gendered and raced class compromise reached in North America after the Second World War. When there has been a part of the population rendered or considered superfluous to the immediate needs of production there has been a degree of comfort with the inevitably bounded spaces into which these people have been abandoned or contained – prisons, ghettos, Bantustans etc. But both the modern state and civil society have always been acutely uncomfortable with that part of the ‘dangerous class’ - vagabonds or squatters - that are, by virtue of their occupation of space outside of state regulation, by definition out of place and threatening to domination constructed, along with other lines of force, on the ordering of space.
- Format
- 11 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Unpublished
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Pithouse, Richard Michael (2010) Politics in the slum: a view from South Africa. Das Argument, 52 (6). ISSN 0004-1157 (Unpublished)
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SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
RU Department of Political and International Studies
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
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