Place renaming, jurisdictional integration, and political representation
Lessons from South Africa
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 21500322 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Stefan Norgaard (0000-0002-1902-2862, Columbia University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2024 |
| Volumen | 39 |
| Número | 5 |
| Páginas | 1007-1028 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2024-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Planning Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0266-5433 • E-ISSN: 1466-4518 |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02665433.2024.2324010 |
| OpenAlex | W4392862252 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 38 |
Since South Africa’s 1994 transition from apartheid to democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) has advanced place renaming alongside jurisdictional rescaling. This confluence allows scholars to examine the political-economic, symbolic, and mnemonic dimensions of territorial inscription. The ANC’s wall-to-wall system of local and district municipalities aimed to rectify the inequality-exacerbating geography of apartheid and create more robust and redistributive localities. Concomitantly, jurisdictional toponyms celebrate anti-apartheid struggle heroes and cut across prior fault-lines of white and Black, haves and have-nots. Based on fieldwork in the Mahikeng Local Municipality (formerly two cities, Mmabatho and Mafikeng, in the Bophuthatswana ‘Bantustan’), I find that new local-government and district-level jurisdictions can indeed integrate prior fault-lines. Yet the process of subnational restructuring also created new inequalities, for instance across municipal categories and between traditional and municipal councils. Residents’ perceptions of local changes are differentiated: some employ new place and jurisdictional names and find State efforts admirable; others see State efforts as merely symbolic changes justifying corruption, opacity, and state-capture; and still others applaud State efforts but see limited results, blaming broader world systems of racial-capitalist urbanization. This research reveals how place-naming and jurisdictional reformulation are worthwhile steps towards rectifying apartheid-era inequalities, but require grassroots popular-democratic decision-making
Economic geography · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · South African History and Culture · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Homes Apart
Place of Thorns
The Birth of Territory
The Apartheid City and Beyond
Democracy's Infrastructure
Durable Inequality
Segregation by Design
Institutional Policy Analysis
The Critical Institutional Analysis and Development (Ciad) Framework
Revolutionary Ideals, Mass Action, Concrete Realities, and Transition to Democracy
In What Circumstances Should Plans Be Public
The Value of Constructivist Grounded Theory for Built Environment Researchers
The gerrymandering of cities and the politics of racial exclusion
Contested terrains
From Mafeking to Mafikeng
Beyond ‘Homelands’
South African People Power since the mid-1980s
Development and Urban Policy
Democracy and Delivery
The democratisation of South African local government
Geographies of toponymic inscription
The Political and Economic Forces Shaping Concentrated Poverty
The Ghosts of Industrial Ruins
The basic assumptions as regards the nature and requirements of a capital city' identity, modernization and urban form at Mafikeng's margins
Belonging through Land/Scape
The Atlas of Changing South Africa
Politics of belonging in the construction of landscapes
Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |