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South Africa and India - Shaping the Global South (Paperback): Claire Benit-Gbaffou, Phil Bonner, Pradip Kumar Datta, Pamila... South Africa and India - Shaping the Global South (Paperback)
Claire Benit-Gbaffou, Phil Bonner, Pradip Kumar Datta, Pamila Gupta, Patrick Heller, …
R395 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

South Africa's future is increasingly tied up with that of India. While trade and investment between the two countries is intensifying, they share long-standing historical ties and have much in common: apart from cricket, colonialism and Gandhi, both countries are important players in the global South. As India emerges as a major economic power, the need to understand these links becomes ever more pressing. Can the two countries enter balanced forms of exchange? What forms of transnational political community between these two regions have yet to be researched and understood? The first section of South Africa and India traces the range of historical connection between the two countries. The second section explores unconventional comparisons that offer rich ground on which to build original areas of study. This innovative book looks to a post-American world in which the global South will become ever more important. Within this context, the Indian Ocean arena itself and South Africa and India in particular move to the fore. The book's main contribution lies in the approaches and methods offered by its wide range of contributors for thinking about this set of circumstances.

Changing Space, Changing City - Johannesburg after apartheid - Open Access selection (Hardcover): Peter Ahmad, Willem... Changing Space, Changing City - Johannesburg after apartheid - Open Access selection (Hardcover)
Peter Ahmad, Willem Badenhorst, Keith Beavon, Claire Benit-Gbaffou, Sarah Charlton, …
R480 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

As the dynamo of South Africa's economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation's imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This book offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city's physical space, as well as a host of chapters on the character of specific neighbourhoods and the social identities being forged within them. Informing all of these is a consideration of underlying economic, social and political processes shaping the wider Gauteng province. A mix of respected academics, practising urban planners and experienced policymakers offer compelling overviews of the rapid and complex spatial developments that have taken place in Johannesburg since the end of apartheid, along with tantalising glimpses into life on the streets and behind the high walls of this diverse city. The book has three sections. Section A provides an overview of macro spatial trends and the policies that have influenced them. Section B explores the shaping of the city at district and suburban level, revealing the peculiarity of processes in different areas. This analysis elucidates the larger trends, while identifying shifts that are not easily detected at the macro level. Section C is an assembly of chapters and short vignettes that focus on the interweaving of place and identity at a micro level. With empirical data supported by new data sets including the 2011 Census, the city's Development Planning and Urban Management Department's information system, and Gauteng City-Region Observatory's substantial archive, the book is an essential reference for planning practitioners, urban geographers, sociologists, and social anthropologists, among others.

Popular politics in SA cities - Unpacking community participation (Paperback): Claire Benit-Gbaffou Popular politics in SA cities - Unpacking community participation (Paperback)
Claire Benit-Gbaffou
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Community meetings seldom lead to significant change in urban policies, and have been accused of being sterile, sedative, or manipulative. This book starts from a simple question: Why do people then continue to participate in these meetings, sometimes massively, and on a regular basis? Authors from a variety of disciplines explore the multiple roles of these `invited' spaces of participation. From consolidation of individual social status and networks, to the construction and framing of the local `community', the display of political or group loyalties and maintenance of client list exchange, access to information, rumors or gossip but also forms of education on who and what is the state, invited spaces of participation are also, crucially, places of emergence of collective awareness, through shared expressions of frustration, that can lead to political mobilisation and other, less institutionalised forms of participation. This book, unpacking community politics and rethinking the complex articulations between ``invited' and invented' spaces of participation, is of relevance for international and national audiences interested in urban governance and local democracy.

Politics And Community-Based Research - Perspectives From Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg (Hardcover): Claire Benit-Gbaffou,... Politics And Community-Based Research - Perspectives From Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg (Hardcover)
Claire Benit-Gbaffou, Sarah Charlton, Sophie Didier, Kirsten Dormann
R480 R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Save R65 (14%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg provides a textured analysis of a contested urban space that will resonate with other contested urban spaces around the world and challenges researchers involved in such spaces to work in creative and politicised ways.

This edited collection is built around the experiences of Yeoville Studio, a research initiative based at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Through themed, illustrated stories of the people and places of Yeoville, the book presents a nuanced portrait of the vibrance and complexity of a post-apartheid, peri-central neighbourhood that has often been characterised as a ‘slum’ in Johannesburg. These narratives are interwoven with theoretical chapters by scholars from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds, reflecting on the empirical experiences of the Studio and examining academic research processes.

These chapters unpack the engagement of the Studio in Yeoville, including issues of trust, the need to align policy with lived realities and social needs, the political dimensions of the knowledge produced and the ways in which this knowledge was, and could be used.

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