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Delivery As Dispossession
Zachary Levenson
其他書名
Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City
出版Oxford University Press, 2022
主題Business & Economics / Economics / GeneralPhilosophy / PoliticalPolitical Science / Comparative PoliticsPolitical Science / GeopoliticsSocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Human GeographySocial Science / Sociology / Rural
ISBN01976292459780197629246
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cJtjEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"This book explains why nearly 30 years after the transition to democracy, the South African government continues to evict squatters from urban land. It argues that housing officials view occupiers as threats to the government's housing delivery program, which, they insist, requires order and state control. New occupations are therefore stigmatized as "disorderly" threats, and government actors represent their removal as a precondition for access to housing. Drawing on a decade of sustained ethnographic fieldwork in two such occupations in Cape Town, this study explains why one was evicted, whereas the other was ultimately tolerated, answering a central question in urban studies: how do governments decide when to evict, and conversely, when to tolerate? These decisions are not made in a vacuum but instead require an analysis that expands what we typically call "the state." This book argues that the state does not simply "see" occupations, as if they were a feature of the natural landscape. Rather, occupiers collectively project themselves to government actors, affecting how they are seen. But residents are not only seen; they also see, which shapes how they organize themselves. When residents see the state as an antagonist, they tend to unify under a single leadership; but when they see it as a potential ally, they often remain atomized as if they were individual customers. The unity in the former case projects an orderly population, less likely to be evicted; but the fragmentation in the latter case projects a disorderly mass, serving to legitimate eviction rulings"--