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Pithouse, Richard Michael
(from the introduction} In a recent essay Achille Mbembe argues that the rendering of human beings as waste by the interface of racism and capitalism in South Africa means that “for the democratic project to have any future at all, it should necess
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008581
Autor:
Pithouse, Richard Michael
(From the introduction) In 2004 Mike Davis asked whether or not what he called 'the informal proletariat' could attain historical agency. The question posed by Davis sparked a largely speculative discussion in the radical edge of the metropolitan aca
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008580
Autor:
Pithouse, Richard Michael
[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 Af
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008579
Autor:
Pithouse, Richard Michael
[From introduction] The devastation of Haiti is not a simple matter of bad luck. Earthquakes, like storms and epidemics, hit the poor with vastly more force than the rich. Much of the press coverage of the catastrophe in Haiti has wilfully disregarde
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008577
Autor:
Pithouse, Richard Michael
The racialised regulation of space under apartheid was increasingly undone by insurgent popular action from the late 1970s. After apartheid a technocratic agenda that reduced the urban crisis to a housing crisis successfully depoliticised the urban q
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008578
Autor:
Pithouse, Richard Michael
[From the introduction] From the Communist Party across to the corporate spin-doctors and down to the Development Committees in the shack settlements, more or less everybody in South Africa speaks the language of development. In some ways this is a g
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008563
Autor:
Pithouse, Richard Michael
[From introduction]: In the cities of the global South elites are often desperate to repress the reality of the shack settlement. Maps are printed in which shack settlements appear as blank spaces, laws are passed that assume that everyone can afford
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008576
Autor:
Pithouse, Richard Michael
From Introduction: In recent weeks people have been willing to risk arrest, violence and in some cases death at the hands of our habitually brutal police force to assert a whole range of demands. These demands have included an insistence on the right
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008573
Autor:
Pithouse, Richard Michael
[From introduction]: History groans with the suffering caused by authoritarian individuals and regimes that were elected to power. For this reason the only useful measure of the commitment of any political project to democracy is to see how it respon
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008572
Autor:
Pithouse, Richard Michael
[From introduction]: On 14 May 2009 the Constitutional Court will hear the attempt by the shack dweller’s movement Abahlali baseMjondolo to have the KwaZulu-Natal Slums Act declared unlawful. Other provinces have been mandated to develop similar le
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008568