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Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City

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Authors:
  1. Yousuf Al-Bulushi

    1. Department of Global and International Studies, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, USA

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  • Explores the relationship between shack dwellers and the municipal government in South Africa
  • Makes broader interventions in national, continental, and global debates
  • Argues that the shack settlement is emblematic of a democratic South Africa

Part of the book series: Contemporary African Political Economy (CONTAPE)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction: Thinking the World from Durban

    • Yousuf Al-Bulushi
    Pages 1-38

  3. Transition: Fissures in the Time and Space of Democracy

    • Yousuf Al-Bulushi
    Pages 39-75

  4. Ruptures: From Post-politics to the Urban Political

    • Yousuf Al-Bulushi
    Pages 77-102

  5. Development: A Promised Land Called Cornubia

    • Yousuf Al-Bulushi
    Pages 103-152

  6. Precarity and Autonomy: Life and Death in the Shacks

    • Yousuf Al-Bulushi
    Pages 153-184

  7. Conclusion: Dignity as Rupture and the “Becoming Black of the World”

    • Yousuf Al-Bulushi
    Pages 185-192

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 193-216
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About this book

How are poor people in South Africa confronting the persistent legacy of apartheid spatial segregation and anti-blackness? And what can movements across the world engaged in a global struggle against racial capitalism learn from the South African experience? This book explores the relationship between shack dwellers and the municipal government in South Africa. Grounded in the local realities of the struggle for housing and basic survival, the project makes broader interventions in national, continental and global debates about urban geography, African studies, social movements and race. The author argues that the shack settlement is emblematic of a democratic South Africa still profoundly shaped by apartheid's afterlife.  

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“Yousuf Al-Bulushi not only narrates an in-depth history and political geography of shack dweller struggles in Durban, South Africa, he provides a radical template for urban studies. Theoretically sophisticated and deeply researched, Ruptures will appeal to scholars across many academic fields, even while it remains accessible to the general reader. It is a remarkably absorbing and brilliant study.” (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, historian and author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Global and International Studies, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, USA

    Yousuf Al-Bulushi

About the author

Yousuf Al-Bulushi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City

  • Authors: Yousuf Al-Bulushi

  • Series Title: Contemporary African Political Economy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42433-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42432-8Published: 30 March 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42435-9Due: 30 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-42433-5Published: 29 March 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2945-7351

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-736X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 216

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: African Politics

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