The poor and the shop window: globalisation, a local political instrument in the South African city?

Bénit, Claire; Gervais-Lambony, Philippe

doi:10.1353/trn.2005.0025

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“…This is particularly true in contexts of extreme inequality. The notion of infrastructural violence seeks to squarely identify the political economy underlying the socio-spatial production of suffering in contemporary cities by opening a concrete way of discussing society's responsibility for this harm and to instigate action towards building what geographers alternatively call a 'socially just city' (Fainstein, 2010;Harvey, 1973Harvey, , 2003Marcuse et al, 2009) and a 'spatially just city' (Benit and Gervais-Lambony, 2005;Iveson, 2011;Soja, 2010).…”

Section: What Is Infrastructural Violence?mentioning

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Infrastructural violence: Introduction to the special issue

2012

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This introduction lays out some of the theoretical underpinnings of the notion of ‘infrastructural violence’. We begin by considering infrastructure as an ethnographically graspable manifestation, before then moving on to highlight how broader processes of marginalization, abjection and disconnection often become operational and sustainable in contemporary cities through infrastructure. We then show how the concept of ‘infrastructural violence’ can nuance our analyses of the relations between people and things that converge daily in urban life to the detriment of marginalized actors, while also proposing a normative reflexivity that can provide a concrete means through which to talk, imagine and build towards greater regimes of quality and collective benefit. Finally, we conclude with a summary of each of the contributions to this special issue.

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Section: What Is Infrastructural Violence?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Infrastructural violence: Introduction to the special issue

2012

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“…This variation also depends on sectoral policies and on the dimensions of urban neoliberalization that are being considered. City centres, as ‘shop windows’ of cities in the global order (Bénit and Gervais Lambony, 2005) not only are the object of neoliberal restructuring per se, other more peripheral spaces are less of a priority for city restructuring, or are characterized by more complex, messy and informal dynamics (less dominant agents or voices), and therefore neoliberal dynamics may be less influential in the shaping of these spaces and their management than other political logics, at least in the security governance dimension studied here 2 . The opposition, however, is not between centre and peripheries stricto sensu , as the wealthy peripheries studied by Morange et al .…”

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Circulation of Security Models in Southern African Cities: Between Neoliberal Encroachment and Local Power Dynamics

Bénit-Gbaffou¹,

Didier²,

Peyroux³

2012

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Texte intégral à l'adresse : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01134.x/pdfInternational audienceThis symposium focuses on the circulation of security governance models in cities of Southern Africa (Johannesburg, Cape Town, Windhoek and Maputo). It consists of three articles analysing at different scales (regional, national and intra‐urban) the circulation of specific neighbourhood‐based solutions to security issues, such as road closures, gated residential developments and business improvement districts. This spreading process, with the South African case at its core, is analysed within the theoretical framework of neoliberalism. The symposium, via this discussion of security models and the way they reflect the changing relationships between state and private actors locally, discusses the relevance of this framework to a fuller understanding of the transformation of Southern African cities.Cette collection d'articles porte sur la circulation de modèles de gouvernance sécuritaire dans les villes d'Afrique australe (Johannesburg, Cape Town, Windhoek et Maputo). Les trois articles qui la constituent analysent, à différentes échelles (régionale, nationale et intra‐urbaine), la circulation de certains dispositifs locaux de lutte contre l'insécurité, tels que les enclosures, les complexes résidentiels fermés et les Business Improvement Districts. Ces processus de diffusion, qui ont souvent pour centre l'Afrique du Sud, sont analysés à travers le cadre théorique du néolibéralisme. Cette collection, en analysant la manière dont ces modèles sécuritaires reflètent les relations dynamiques entre l'Etat et les acteurs privés locaux, questionne la pertinence de ce cadre théorique pour comprendre les transformations des villes d'Afrique australe

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Police-community partnerships and responses to crime: Lessons from yeoville and observatory, Johannesburg

Bénit-Gbaffou

2006

Urban Forum

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The poor and the shop window: globalisation, a local political instrument in the South African city?

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Infrastructural violence: Introduction to the special issue

Infrastructural violence: Introduction to the special issue

Circulation of Security Models in Southern African Cities: Between Neoliberal Encroachment and Local Power Dynamics

Police-community partnerships and responses to crime: Lessons from yeoville and observatory, Johannesburg

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