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Making Freedom - Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home (Hardcover)
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Making Freedom - Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home (Hardcover)
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In Making Freedom Anne-Maria Makhulu explores practices of
squatting and illegal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town
during and immediately following the end of apartheid. Apartheid's
paradoxical policies of prohibiting migrant Africans who worked in
Cape Town from living permanently within the city led some black
families to seek safe haven on the city's perimeters. Beginning in
the 1970s families set up makeshift tents and shacks and built
whole communities, defying the state through what Makhulu calls a
"politics of presence." In the simple act of building homes,
squatters, who Makhulu characterizes as urban militants, actively
engaged in a politics of "the right to the city" that became vital
in the broader struggles for liberation. Despite apartheid's end in
1994, Cape Town's settlements have expanded, as new forms of
dispossession associated with South African neoliberalism
perpetuate relations of spatial exclusion, poverty, and racism. As
Makhulu demonstrates, the efforts of black Capetonians to establish
claims to a place in the city not only decisively reshaped Cape
Town's geography but changed the course of history.
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