Natural Neighbors: Indigenous Landscapes and Eco-Estates in Durban, South Africa

Ballard, Richard; Jones, Gareth A.

doi:10.1080/00045608.2010.520224

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“…7. See also Lemanski (2006), Ballard and Jones (2011), and Scheurmans (2013) on South Africa, and Lawson, Jarosz, and Bonds (2008) on the United States. 8.…”

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confidence: 97%

Middle-Class Poverty Politics: Making Place, Making People

Elwood

Lawson

Nowak

2014

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…7. See also Lemanski (2006), Ballard and Jones (2011), and Scheurmans (2013) on South Africa, and Lawson, Jarosz, and Bonds (2008) on the United States. 8.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Middle-Class Poverty Politics: Making Place, Making People

Elwood

Lawson

Nowak

2014

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…Ballard and Jones (2011) indicate that Eco-security estates and gated communities are both a major source of class-based segregation within the South African context. Since 1994, South Africa has seen a steady increase in the number of gated communities developed in previously exclusive white areas.…”

Section: Segregation Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, another function of these eco-security estates and gated communities is to create social exclusion by preventing certain people from gaining access thereto (Roitman et al, 2010, Ballard andJones, 2011;Breetzke et al, 2014). With their superior purchasing power, elite Whites and elite members of other racial groups are able to invest in these areas, ensuring a solely upper class social grouping of like individuals in the area.…”

Section: Segregation Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since 1994, South Africa has seen a steady increase in the number of gated communities developed in previously exclusive white areas. These areas are the choice of residence for the new middle and upper classes that are moving to gated communities with the control of crime being punted as the major reason thereof (Ballard and Jones, 2011;Breetzke, Landman and Cohn, 2014).…”

Section: Segregation Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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Are the walls giving way to fences? Is racial integration within Kwadukuza municipality leading to income-based class segregation?

Singh¹,

Eeden²

2017

SA J of Geomatics

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“…8 8 The cultural geography of commodified nature production in eco‐estates is analysed by Ballard and Jones (2011). These ‘gated communities’/lifestyle developments are appearing across the landscape of KwaZulu‐Natal and are often explicitly linked to security concerns. …”

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Creating a Commodified Wilderness: Tourism, Private Game Farming, and ‘Third Nature’ Landscapes in Kwazulu‐natal

Brooks¹,

Spierenburg²,

Brakel

et al. 2011

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This article explores contemporary cultural geographies and underlying histories of change on private land in post‐apartheid South Africa. Its focus is the expansion of wildlife‐based tourism and related forms of commodified wilderness consumption in KwaZulu‐Natal province. The article explores the social and economic processes occurring on game farms in a region known as the Midlands. Here nature is being culturally (re)constructed on former farmlands to create new landscapes shaped by the demands of wildlife‐based tourism. In pursuit of these ‘third nature’ dreams, spaces often need to be physically changed as well as discursively repositioned through marketing. Yet this is not an unchallenged process: the presence of ‘farm dwellers’ living on privately owned land disrupts smooth progress to a refashioned wilderness landscape. The article identifies various strategies employed by landowners in order to minimise the presence of farm dwellers on their land. In the current context, the involvement of the state on private land adds a further layer of complexity. Land reform policies and programmes serve as a mesh through which these contestations are filtered. While their effects are often ambiguous, land claims in particular serve to challenge the ‘third nature’ dream of landowners.

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Natural Neighbors: Indigenous Landscapes and Eco-Estates in Durban, South Africa

Cited by 71 publications

References 38 publications

Middle-Class Poverty Politics: Making Place, Making People

Middle-Class Poverty Politics: Making Place, Making People

Are the walls giving way to fences? Is racial integration within Kwadukuza municipality leading to income-based class segregation?

Creating a Commodified Wilderness: Tourism, Private Game Farming, and ‘Third Nature’ Landscapes in Kwazulu‐natal

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