Why the Homeless Rebel
Housing Struggles in post-Apartheid South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12916664 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher G Thomas (0000-0003-2082-6726, University of South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 27-47 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-2523 • E-ISSN: 1753-2531 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17532523.2010.517402 |
| OpenAlex | W2082786346 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
Post-apartheid housing struggles urgently need to be addressed in order to consolidate the inclusivist democracy in South Africa. Former white minority governments restricted housing in order to control the movement of Africans and their labour. This paper analyses aspects of post-apartheid housing protest. The argument is that such protests are rooted in a problematic rights discourse of the anti-apartheid struggle, and in the new constitution's recognition of the right of access to adequate housing, which is nonetheless, subjected to fiscal constraints. The article's second focus is on a legacy of land dispossession, which also hinders housing delivery. Failure to realise the right to housing fuels some of the most important conflict that will shape future organisation of state institutions and relations between the state and society
Argument (complex analysis · Constitution · Democracy · Economics · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Human Rights and Development · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · South African History and Culture
Housing Enabling Markets to Work
The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning
Reframing Policy Discourse
Citizenship and Social Class
Rights and Social Movements
Can a human rights culture enable emancipation? Clearing some theoretical ground for the renewal of a critical sociology
Housing rights in South Africa
The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth Century South Africa
Democracy and development
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa
Rebellion of the poor
Rights and Social Movements
Land for the Landless
Constitutionalism, Majoritarian Democracy and Socio-Economic Rights
Politics in South Africa
Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid and the Conceptualization of ‘Race’
Solomon T. Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion
Beyond a Charter of Luxuries
Legal Culture and Transformative Constitutionalism
Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth-Century South Africa
The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Transition to Democracy Through Transaction
Birds in the cornfield
The Politics of Transition
Ideology in Everyday Life
A Rewarding Engagement? The Treatment Action Campaign and the Politics of HIV/Aids
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |