Gangs, politics & dignity in Cape Town
By: Steffen Jensen.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; James Currey; Wits University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226398334; 9780226398358
Subjects: Colored people (South Africa) -- South Africa -- Cape Town; Colored people (South Africa) -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Social conditions; Colored people (South Africa) -- Government policy -- South Africa -- Cape Town; Poor -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Social conditions; Poor -- Government policy -- South Africa -- Cape Town; Gangs -- South Africa -- Cape Town; Police-community relations -- South Africa -- Cape Town
Other titles: Gangs, politics and dignity in Cape Town
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The production of subjects & spaces; title: The violence of the "other side"; title: The back streets; title: Winning back the Cape Flats; title: Policing the Cape Flats; title: Negotiating masculinities; title: Politics of respectability.