Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development

Title: Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development
Subtitle: Forced Evictions and Criminalisation Practices in Present-Day South Africa
Author: Sara Dehkordi
Publisher: transcript
Bielefeld, Germany 2020
ISBN 9783837653106 / ISBN 978-3-8376-5310-6
Softcover, 15 x 23 cm, 262 pages, 19 b/w photos

About: Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development

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. 'Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development' 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.

Contents: Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Beginnings
Impressions
The book
The colonial archives repertoire
Introduction
Thinking archive with Derrida
Coloniality and the archive
The archive, institutionalisation, and the making of memory
Archive and method
Thinking the forbidden archive
Coloniality and the Urban Development Discourse
Imagining a third space
Conclusion
Policies of Displacement – Forced Evictions and their Discursive Framing
Introduction
The District Six evictions
The evictions of the Joe Slovo Residents
The evictions in Symphony Way
The Tafelsig evictions
Blikkiesdorp
Conclusion
“Cleaning” the streets – Urban Development Discourse and criminalisationpractices
Introduction
Politico-economic violence and the coloniality of the present
The category of “the poor” and the disciplining effects of space
Superfluous informal traders
The security sector and the production of fear
The business elite
Urban Development Discourse and media
Conclusion
Architectures of Division
Introduction
First coordinate: Table Mountain
Second coordinate: Vredehoek Quarry
Third coordinate: Victoria Road
Fourth coordinate: Imizamo Yethu
Fifth coordinate: Main Library, University of Stellenbosch
Conclusion
Intervention through art – Performing is making visible
Introduction
Steven Cohen – The Chandelier
The Xcollektiv – Non-Poor Only
Ayesha Price – Save the Princess
Donovan Ward – Living on the Edge
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Books, journal articles, reports and court judgments