Cape Town after apartheid
Subtitle: crime and governance in the divided city
By: Tony Roshan Samara
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780816670000; 9780816670017
Subjects: Violence; Police; Gangs; Crime prevention; Crime
Description: Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the nation look? In Cape Town, is hardening inequality under conditions of neoliberal globalization actually reproducing the repressive governance of the apartheid era? By exploring issues of urban security and development, Tony Roshan Samara brings to light the features of urban apartheid that increasingly mark not only Cape Town but also the global cities of our day--cities as diverse as Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, and Beijing.--From pulisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : urban geopolitics, neoliberalism, and the governance of security; title: Security and development in post-apartheid South Africa; title: Children in the streets : urban governance in Cape Town city center; title: Gangsterism and the policing of the Cape Flats; title: The weight of policing on the fragile ground of transformation; title: The production of criminality on the urban periphery; title: Conclusion : apartheid, democracy and the urban future.