R Ballard
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 14663 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Ballard |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Ballard |
| FIRMA | BALLARD R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6244-6946 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 153 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Building Volume per Capita
In South Africa’s largest city region, located in the province of Gauteng, a key condition of inequality is that high-income households live in large houses while low-income households live in much smaller accommodation. Innovations in earth observation have enabled the modelling of building volumes in cities and this allows for new ways of assessing housing inequalities in Gauteng. This study calculates building volume per capita (BVPC) for the …
Infrastructures to work
Despite being mostly deemed failures, the large urban infrastructure projects (LUIPs) remain crucial for growth and development in the policy agenda. A key economic and political driver behind these projects is their impact on boosting employment. Most research mainly represents the perspectives of project promoters, planners, and funders, often focusing on the experiences of high-level professionals, politicians, and businesses. Those at the bot…
Post-Fordism and urban inequality
The Routledge Handbook of Social Change
"The Routledge Handbook of Social Change provides an interdisciplinary primer to the intellectual approaches that hold the key to understanding the complexity of social change in the twenty-first century. We live in a world of intense social transformation, economic uncertainty, cultural innovations, and political turmoil. Established understandings of issues of well-being, development, democratization, progress, and sustainability are being reth…
Everyday Resistance
The concept of everyday resistance became a major model of social change in the final two decades of the twentieth century. Its originator, James Scott, offered this theory as a corrective to the notion that that subordinate people were passive. He asserted that oppressed people do have agency, that their agency can be individual rather than collective, that change is realised autonomously rather than through the state, and that the category of r…
South African urban imaginaries
On the afterlives of colonialism
Scale of Belonging
Trickle-out Urbanism
Comparing the relational work of developers
Transnational urbanism interrupted
This article examines how developers attempt to move into new settings, and how such attempts sometimes fail. Unlike long-standing developers, who are in various ways 'embedded' ( Henneberry and Parris, 2013 ), newcomers have to overcome their lack of familiarity with the context of their intended project. Using the case of a proposed megaproject at Modderfontein in Johannesburg, we examine how a Chinese developer worked to articulate with the Jo…
Governance and Development
Governance is a broad concept which refers to the many ways in which aspects of society are regulated or guided by institutions, rules, and conventions. Governance can take the form of a conscious attempt to fix a problem or achieve a goal, by managing, regulating, or steering processes or behavior through a combination of coercion and consent. It can, alternatively, be an unplanned process through which informal rules shape behavior. Bureaucracy…
Community and the Balkanization of social membership
Although the idea of community opens up possibilities for thinking about agency, sociality and collectivity in the face of austerity, it also has significant limitations. It can reify and ossify collectives in ways that do not align particularly well with complex and fluid social realities. Where ideas of community are adopted popular and political levels, they can result in processes of social purification that demand either assimilation or excl…
Whiteness and the End of Apartheid
Many studies of white identity in South Africa have been based on the conceptual relationship between white people and their constitutive outside; or, the way in which some people were classified a
Migration, space and transnational identities
Black Middle Class in S outh A frica (“Black Diamonds”)
The transition from apartheid to democracy has been associated with the changing class structure of South Africa and, in particular, the growth of the black middle class. The upward mobility of particular sets of “native,” “bantu,” “African,” or “black” people (as they were variously named) was an economic and social fact since colonization. However, twentieth‐century politics was ultimately defined by the promotion of “European” or “white” upwar…
Assimilation
Assimilation is the process through which one group of people is socially absorbed by a second group of people with the result that the group that is being absorbed takes on the characteristics of the group absorbing them. Assimilation can be unplanned or planned, and it can be both unforced and coerced. As a strategy for managing social diversity, assimilation appears to offer the possibility of inclusionary control through which a dominant grou…
Geographies of development III
One of the more familiar tropes in development-related literature is that impoverished people are neither passive recipients of development nor passive victims of process that have caused their marginalization. This progress report examines two ways in which research has elaborated on this idea, namely the collective responses to the causes of deprivation on one hand and the collective effects of uncoordinated responses on the other. The first th…
Geographies of development II
Since the mid-1990s, a number of governments in the global South have instituted programmes which provide regular cash grants to poor people. The results of cash transfer programmes have impressed those searching for ways to improve welfare: the depth of poverty has been reduced, more children are being educated and vaccinated, and the poor are more likely to get jobs and start enterprises. Advocates of social democracy are hopeful that this hera…
Geographies of development
Some contemporary narratives of development give privileged status to middle classes in the global South. In the face of intractable poverty, policy-makers take heart from the success stories of ordinary people who have, over generations, realized and consolidated the gains of development and who embody society at its most functional. Their presumed virtues are their self-sufficiency, their ability to articulate with the global economy, their buy…
Natural Neighbors
In South Africa, new gated communities have begun branding themselves as “eco-estates,” “game estates,” “nature estates,” and “forest estates.” The marketing and consumption of nature has become prominent in the production and consumption of gated communities. A particular emphasis is placed on the use of native or indigenous plant species in landscape design. Suburbanites seeking to escape the increasingly mixed and threatening postapartheid cit…
Johannesburg
Johannesburg: The elusive metropolis is an edited volume that has its origins in an exciting special edition of the journal Public Culture in 2004, now expanded to include a number of new chapters. The editors, Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe, open with a concern that historiography of the South African city tends to focus on exploitation, capital accumulation, and the rise and fall of the segregated city, to the neglect of themes such as the un…
Slaughter in the suburbs
The slaughter of animals is a fundamental aspect of the economic, social and spiritual life of many people in South Africa. Under apartheid, these events generally occurred in rural areas or urban townships designated for black people. Since the transition to democracy in the 1990s, increased suburban mixing has exposed established middle-class residents, notably white people, to cattle slaughter. The article explores the resulting public discour…
Planification Stratégique Et Formes Émergentes De Démocratie À Ethekwini, Durban
Cet article explore l’émergence de formes de démocratie locales dans la période post-apartheid, à travers l’étude des processus de planification stratégique dans la métropole d’eThekwini (Durban), Afrique du Sud. Il montre la diversité des acteurs et leur influence respective dans l’élaboration du plan stratégique pour eThekwini, dans les années qui ont suivi la création de la municipalité en 2000. Il examine l’influence des fonctionnaires munici…
Dilemmas of Representation in Post-apartheid Durban
Geographies of development II
Since the mid-1990s, a number of governments in the global South have instituted programmes which provide regular cash grants to poor people. The results of cash transfer programmes have impressed those searching for ways to improve welfare: the depth of poverty has been reduced, more children are being educated and vaccinated, and the poor are more likely to get jobs and start enterprises. Advocates of social democracy are hopeful that this hera…
Dislocating modernity
Globalization, marginalization and contemporary social movements in South Africa
Journal Article Globalization, marginalization and contemporary social movements in South Africa Get access Richard Ballard, Richard Ballard Richard Ballard is in the School of Development Studies and Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Adam Habib, Adam Habib Adam Habib is in the Human Sciences Research Council and School of Development Studies, University…
Geographies of development III
One of the more familiar tropes in development-related literature is that impoverished people are neither passive recipients of development nor passive victims of process that have caused their marginalization. This progress report examines two ways in which research has elaborated on this idea, namely the collective responses to the causes of deprivation on one hand and the collective effects of uncoordinated responses on the other. The first th…
Natural Neighbors
In South Africa, new gated communities have begun branding themselves as “eco-estates,” “game estates,” “nature estates,” and “forest estates.” The marketing and consumption of nature has become prominent in the production and consumption of gated communities. A particular emphasis is placed on the use of native or indigenous plant species in landscape design. Suburbanites seeking to escape the increasingly mixed and threatening postapartheid cit…
Slaughter in the suburbs
The slaughter of animals is a fundamental aspect of the economic, social and spiritual life of many people in South Africa. Under apartheid, these events generally occurred in rural areas or urban townships designated for black people. Since the transition to democracy in the 1990s, increased suburban mixing has exposed established middle-class residents, notably white people, to cattle slaughter. The article explores the resulting public discour…
Comparing the relational work of developers
Geographies of development
Some contemporary narratives of development give privileged status to middle classes in the global South. In the face of intractable poverty, policy-makers take heart from the success stories of ordinary people who have, over generations, realized and consolidated the gains of development and who embody society at its most functional. Their presumed virtues are their self-sufficiency, their ability to articulate with the global economy, their buy…
Transnational urbanism interrupted
This article examines how developers attempt to move into new settings, and how such attempts sometimes fail. Unlike long-standing developers, who are in various ways 'embedded' ( Henneberry and Parris, 2013 ), newcomers have to overcome their lack of familiarity with the context of their intended project. Using the case of a proposed megaproject at Modderfontein in Johannesburg, we examine how a Chinese developer worked to articulate with the Jo…
South African urban imaginaries
Community and the Balkanization of social membership
Although the idea of community opens up possibilities for thinking about agency, sociality and collectivity in the face of austerity, it also has significant limitations. It can reify and ossify collectives in ways that do not align particularly well with complex and fluid social realities. Where ideas of community are adopted popular and political levels, they can result in processes of social purification that demand either assimilation or excl…
Dislocating modernity
Middle class neighbourhoods or ‘African Kraals’? The impact of informal settlements and vagrants on post-apartheid white identity
Globalization, marginalization and contemporary social movements in South Africa
Journal Article Globalization, marginalization and contemporary social movements in South Africa Get access Richard Ballard, Richard Ballard Richard Ballard is in the School of Development Studies and Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Adam Habib, Adam Habib Adam Habib is in the Human Sciences Research Council and School of Development Studies, University…
Dilemmas of Representation in Post-apartheid Durban
Development and New Forms of Democracy in eThekwini
Planification Stratégique Et Formes Émergentes De Démocratie À Ethekwini, Durban
Cet article explore l’émergence de formes de démocratie locales dans la période post-apartheid, à travers l’étude des processus de planification stratégique dans la métropole d’eThekwini (Durban), Afrique du Sud. Il montre la diversité des acteurs et leur influence respective dans l’élaboration du plan stratégique pour eThekwini, dans les années qui ont suivi la création de la municipalité en 2000. Il examine l’influence des fonctionnaires munici…
Johannesburg
Johannesburg: The elusive metropolis is an edited volume that has its origins in an exciting special edition of the journal Public Culture in 2004, now expanded to include a number of new chapters. The editors, Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe, open with a concern that historiography of the South African city tends to focus on exploitation, capital accumulation, and the rise and fall of the segregated city, to the neglect of themes such as the un…
Slaughter in the suburbs
The slaughter of animals is a fundamental aspect of the economic, social and spiritual life of many people in South Africa. Under apartheid, these events generally occurred in rural areas or urban townships designated for black people. Since the transition to democracy in the 1990s, increased suburban mixing has exposed established middle-class residents, notably white people, to cattle slaughter. The article explores the resulting public discour…
Natural Neighbors
In South Africa, new gated communities have begun branding themselves as “eco-estates,” “game estates,” “nature estates,” and “forest estates.” The marketing and consumption of nature has become prominent in the production and consumption of gated communities. A particular emphasis is placed on the use of native or indigenous plant species in landscape design. Suburbanites seeking to escape the increasingly mixed and threatening postapartheid cit…
Geographies of development
Some contemporary narratives of development give privileged status to middle classes in the global South. In the face of intractable poverty, policy-makers take heart from the success stories of ordinary people who have, over generations, realized and consolidated the gains of development and who embody society at its most functional. Their presumed virtues are their self-sufficiency, their ability to articulate with the global economy, their buy…
Geographies of development II
Since the mid-1990s, a number of governments in the global South have instituted programmes which provide regular cash grants to poor people. The results of cash transfer programmes have impressed those searching for ways to improve welfare: the depth of poverty has been reduced, more children are being educated and vaccinated, and the poor are more likely to get jobs and start enterprises. Advocates of social democracy are hopeful that this hera…
Geographies of development III
One of the more familiar tropes in development-related literature is that impoverished people are neither passive recipients of development nor passive victims of process that have caused their marginalization. This progress report examines two ways in which research has elaborated on this idea, namely the collective responses to the causes of deprivation on one hand and the collective effects of uncoordinated responses on the other. The first th…
Black Middle Class in S outh A frica (“Black Diamonds”)
The transition from apartheid to democracy has been associated with the changing class structure of South Africa and, in particular, the growth of the black middle class. The upward mobility of particular sets of “native,” “bantu,” “African,” or “black” people (as they were variously named) was an economic and social fact since colonization. However, twentieth‐century politics was ultimately defined by the promotion of “European” or “white” upwar…
Assimilation
Assimilation is the process through which one group of people is socially absorbed by a second group of people with the result that the group that is being absorbed takes on the characteristics of the group absorbing them. Assimilation can be unplanned or planned, and it can be both unforced and coerced. As a strategy for managing social diversity, assimilation appears to offer the possibility of inclusionary control through which a dominant grou…
Community and the Balkanization of social membership
Although the idea of community opens up possibilities for thinking about agency, sociality and collectivity in the face of austerity, it also has significant limitations. It can reify and ossify collectives in ways that do not align particularly well with complex and fluid social realities. Where ideas of community are adopted popular and political levels, they can result in processes of social purification that demand either assimilation or excl…
Whiteness and the End of Apartheid
Many studies of white identity in South Africa have been based on the conceptual relationship between white people and their constitutive outside; or, the way in which some people were classified a
Migration, space and transnational identities
Governance and Development
Governance is a broad concept which refers to the many ways in which aspects of society are regulated or guided by institutions, rules, and conventions. Governance can take the form of a conscious attempt to fix a problem or achieve a goal, by managing, regulating, or steering processes or behavior through a combination of coercion and consent. It can, alternatively, be an unplanned process through which informal rules shape behavior. Bureaucracy…
Comparing the relational work of developers
Transnational urbanism interrupted
This article examines how developers attempt to move into new settings, and how such attempts sometimes fail. Unlike long-standing developers, who are in various ways 'embedded' ( Henneberry and Parris, 2013 ), newcomers have to overcome their lack of familiarity with the context of their intended project. Using the case of a proposed megaproject at Modderfontein in Johannesburg, we examine how a Chinese developer worked to articulate with the Jo…
Scale of Belonging
Trickle-out Urbanism
The Routledge Handbook of Social Change
"The Routledge Handbook of Social Change provides an interdisciplinary primer to the intellectual approaches that hold the key to understanding the complexity of social change in the twenty-first century. We live in a world of intense social transformation, economic uncertainty, cultural innovations, and political turmoil. Established understandings of issues of well-being, development, democratization, progress, and sustainability are being reth…
Everyday Resistance
The concept of everyday resistance became a major model of social change in the final two decades of the twentieth century. Its originator, James Scott, offered this theory as a corrective to the notion that that subordinate people were passive. He asserted that oppressed people do have agency, that their agency can be individual rather than collective, that change is realised autonomously rather than through the state, and that the category of r…
South African urban imaginaries
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