Tony Roshan Samara
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816670000
- eISBN:
- 9781452947044
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816670000.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
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 ...
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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, this book 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. The text focuses on urban renewal and urban security policies and practices in the city center and townships as this aspiring world-class city actively pursues a neoliberal approach to development. The city’s attempt to escape its past is, however, constrained by crippling inequalities, racial and ethnic tensions, political turmoil, and persistent insecurity. He book shows how governance in Cape Town remains rooted in the perceived need to control dangerous populations and protect a somewhat fragile and unpopular economic system. In urban areas around the world, where the affluent minority and poor majority live in relative proximity to each other, aggressive security practices and strict governance reflect and reproduce the divided city.Less
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, this book 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. The text focuses on urban renewal and urban security policies and practices in the city center and townships as this aspiring world-class city actively pursues a neoliberal approach to development. The city’s attempt to escape its past is, however, constrained by crippling inequalities, racial and ethnic tensions, political turmoil, and persistent insecurity. He book shows how governance in Cape Town remains rooted in the perceived need to control dangerous populations and protect a somewhat fragile and unpopular economic system. In urban areas around the world, where the affluent minority and poor majority live in relative proximity to each other, aggressive security practices and strict governance reflect and reproduce the divided city.
Teresa Gowan
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816648696
- eISBN:
- 9781452946351
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816648696.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
When homelessness reemerged in American cities during the 1980s at levels not seen since the Great Depression, it initially provoked shock and outrage. Within a few years, however, what had been ...
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When homelessness reemerged in American cities during the 1980s at levels not seen since the Great Depression, it initially provoked shock and outrage. Within a few years, however, what had been perceived as a national crisis came to be seen as a nuisance, with early sympathies for the plight of the homeless giving way to compassion fatigue and then condemnation. Debates around the problem of homelessness—often set in terms of sin, sickness, and the failure of the social system—have come to profoundly shape how homeless people survive and make sense of their plights. This book depicts the lives of homeless men in San Francisco and analyzes the influence of the homelessness industry on the streets, in the shelters, and on public policy. The book shows some of the diverse ways that men on the street in San Francisco struggle for survival, autonomy, and self-respect. Drawing on five years of fieldwork, this ethnography of men living on the streets of the most liberal city in America, this book, makes clear that the way we talk about issues of extreme poverty has real consequences for how we address this problem—and for the homeless themselves.Less
When homelessness reemerged in American cities during the 1980s at levels not seen since the Great Depression, it initially provoked shock and outrage. Within a few years, however, what had been perceived as a national crisis came to be seen as a nuisance, with early sympathies for the plight of the homeless giving way to compassion fatigue and then condemnation. Debates around the problem of homelessness—often set in terms of sin, sickness, and the failure of the social system—have come to profoundly shape how homeless people survive and make sense of their plights. This book depicts the lives of homeless men in San Francisco and analyzes the influence of the homelessness industry on the streets, in the shelters, and on public policy. The book shows some of the diverse ways that men on the street in San Francisco struggle for survival, autonomy, and self-respect. Drawing on five years of fieldwork, this ethnography of men living on the streets of the most liberal city in America, this book, makes clear that the way we talk about issues of extreme poverty has real consequences for how we address this problem—and for the homeless themselves.
Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816674510
- eISBN:
- 9781452947594
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816674510.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
“High technology will destroy more jobs than it creates.” This grim prediction was first published in the 1994 edition of this text, an eerily accurate title that could have been written for today’s ...
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“High technology will destroy more jobs than it creates.” This grim prediction was first published in the 1994 edition of this text, an eerily accurate title that could have been written for today’s dismal economic climate. Updated and with a new introduction and afterword this book warns that jobs as we know them—long-term, with benefits—are an endangered species.Less
“High technology will destroy more jobs than it creates.” This grim prediction was first published in the 1994 edition of this text, an eerily accurate title that could have been written for today’s dismal economic climate. Updated and with a new introduction and afterword this book warns that jobs as we know them—long-term, with benefits—are an endangered species.