Where is the periphery even? Capturing urban marginality in South African human rights law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10864926 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marius Pieterse (0000-0001-5163-8846, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1182-1197 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0042098018755067 |
| OpenAlex | W2793245479 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article questions the usefulness of the notion of an ‘urban periphery’ for efforts to capture and ameliorate urban marginalisation and exclusion through human rights-based litigation. Focusing on South Africa’s Gauteng City Region, the article argues that the notion of an urban periphery fails to capture the nuances of marginal urban life and the interests of poor, marginalised urban residents in accessing the city. In the specific context of the right of access to housing, the article then grapples with South African judicial engagements with the spatial dimensions of urban marginalisation. It finds that, despite the fixation of human rights litigators, activists and commentators on housing location and the ‘urban periphery’, courts are adopting a more nuanced and balanced approach to urban marginality. It accordingly identifies interests that should be accommodated by such an approach and points to legal concepts which may more constructively respond to these
Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Human rights · Political science · Politics · Right to the city · Sociology · Urban planning · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · South African History and Culture · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Sorting Territory
In pursuit of just sustainability
Mobility, Access and the Value of the Mabopane Station Precinct
Marginal Voices, Resilient Acts
The informational periphery
Property ’s Shadow
Financializing Africa’s urban peripheries
A conceptual typology of the spatial territories of the peripheral areas of metropolises
Negotiating the night
Urbanisation without the city, ruralisation without the agrarian
Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries
Inclusion Through Housing
Contemporary South African Urbanization Dynamics
Law’s Spatial Turn
Contested spaces
The urban periphery, myth and reality
Procedural Relief, Constitutional Citizenship and Socio-Economic Rights as Legitimate Expectations
We are Gauteng People”
Suburbanisation, homeownership aspirations and urban housing
Litigating Housing Rights in Johannesburg’s Inner City
Conflict Management in an Era of Urbanisation
A Right to Transport? Moving Towards a Rights-Based Approach to Mobility in the City
Judicial Enforcement of the Right to Protection from Arbitrary Eviction
The Responsibility to Protect Beyond Borders
Peripheral urbanization
Peripheries, suburbanisms and change in sub-Saharan African cities
Getting Around Town
The Dream and the Ordinary
Piecemeal Urbanisation at the Peripheries of Lagos
| Citations per year | 1.57 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |