Delivery as Dispossession

Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City

AvZachary Levenson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa.In post-apartheid South Africa, nearly a fifth of the urban population lives in shacks. Unable to wait any longer for government housing, people occupy land, typically seeking to fly under the state's radar. Yet in most cases, occupiers wind up in dialogue with the state. In Delivery as Dispossession, Zachary Levenson follows this journey from avoidance to incorporation, explaining how the post-apartheid Constitution shifts squatters' struggles onto the judicial register. Providing a comparative ethnographic account of two land occupations in Cape Town and highlighting occupiers' struggles, Levenson further demonstrates why it is that housing officials seek the eviction of all new occupations: they view these unsanctioned settlements as a threat to the order they believe is required for delivery. Yet in evicting occupiers, he argues, they reproduce the problem anew, with subsequent rounds of land occupation as the inevitable consequence. Offering a unique framework for thinking about local states, this book proposes a novel theory of the state that will change the way ethnographers think about politics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-06-22
Mått:241 x 159 x 20 mm
Vikt:549 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Global and Comparative Ethnography
Antal sidor:294
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197629246
Utmärkelser:Winner, 2023 ASA Robert E. Park Book Award Honorable Mention, 2023 Society for the Study of Social Problems Outstanding Book Award

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Zachary Levenson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. His work, which combines political and urban sociology, has appeared in Qualitative Sociology, Urban Studies, the Journal of Agrarian Change, and International Sociology, among other venues.

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Impressively clear and compelling....Levenson demonstrates the classic sociological combination of ethnographic rigor and theoretical innovation. This is ethnography at its best.

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List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsPreface1 · Two Occupations, One Eviction 2 · Dynamics of Delivery and Dispossession 3 · Civil Society I: Kapteinsklip and the Politics of Seriality4 · Civil Society II: Siqalo and the Politics of Fusion5 · Political Society I: Kapteinsklip and the Politics of Factionalism6 · Political Society II: Siqalo and the Politics of Committees7 · Four Theses on the Integral StateAppendix · Methodological ReflectionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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