How are poor people in South Africa confronting the persistent legacy of apartheid spatial segregation and anti-blackness? The author argues that the shack settlement is emblematic of a democratic South Africa still profoundly shaped by apartheid's afterlife.
Yousuf Al-Bulushi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
Introduction: Thinking the World from Durban.- Ch 1 Transition: Fissures in the Time and Space of Democracy.- Ch 2 Ruptures: From Post-Politics to the Urban Political.- Ch 3 Development: A Promised Land Called Cornubia.- Ch 4 Precarity & Autonomy: Life & Death in the Shacks.- Ch 5 Poverty and Policy.- Conclusion: Dignity as Rupture: Alter-Globalization 2.0.