The Power of Apartheid: State, Power, and Space in South African CitiesAlthough there have been momentous changes in South Africa's recent political history, the spatial remnants of apartheid and the planning ideas which underpinned it remain to confound post-apartheid city planners. This book draws on detailed case study material from one South African town, Port Elizabeth, to illustrate the relationship between the state, power, economy and spatial practices. The racialised character of the urban order which emerged under apartheid meant that, together with the routine capacities of the state to govern, the domination of African people and their exclusion from political power were also effectively secured by means of the spatial organisation of the city. Aspects of the strong relationship between modernity and racism are teased out in this study of the South African city, as are the general links between spatial form and state power. This book demands attention from everyone concerned with the spatial politics of urban development. |
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States power and spatiality | 11 |
the geography of state power | 30 |
The interests of the modern South African state | 39 |
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African population amongst apartheid argued authorities Baines Bantu biopower Brighton Location Cape Colony Cape Town central government centre century Chapter city council colonial Coloured concern councillors discourses domination Dubow Eastern Cape economic effective efforts emerged ensure especially example Foucault Geography Grahamstown Group Areas Act headmen housing schemes IANEA Ibid ideology implementation important industrial influx control interests Johannesburg Korsten KwaZakele Labour Bureau legislation LGNF liberal living location administration location strategy location superintendent London Manager of Native McNamee Village ment modern municipal NABd NAC Agendas Native Advisory Board Native Affairs Native Affairs Department negotiations non-statutory Officer organization PEIA PEM Pietermaritzburg planning Port Elizabeth post-apartheid power relations problems racial racial segregation regulations rents residents resistance response role SANCO Schauder slum social South African space spatial state's suggested territorial tion Town Clerk township Union urban areas urban government Walton Jameson WCAB women