Platinum City and the New South African Dream
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2102811 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Dinah Rajak (0000-0002-6605-7611, University of Sussex, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2012 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 252-271 |
| Data de publicação | 2012-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0001972012000046 |
| OpenAlex | W2119101336 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 14 |
| Referências citadas | 25 |
Much has been written about the persistence of economic apartheid, inscribed in the geography of South Africa's cities, producing spatial configurations that are reminiscent of the old order of segregation while simultaneously embodying the particular inequities and divisions of the new neo-liberal order (Turok 2001; Harrison 2006). Through an ethnographic study of Rustenburg, the urban hub of South Africa's platinum belt (once labelled the 'fastest growing city in Africa' after Cairo), I explore how the failure of urban integration maps onto the failure of the promise of market inclusion. What is particular about mid-range towns such as Rustenburg is that the opportunities of 'empowerment through enterprise' are seen, or believed, to be all the more attainable than in large cities. Here the extended supply chains of the mining industry and the expanding secondary economy appear to offer limitless possibilities to share in the boons of the platinum boom. Yet as this account shows, the disjuncture and friction between corporate authority and local government have given rise to increasing fragmentation and exclusion, as only a very few are able to grasp the long-anticipated rewards of the new South African dream
Archaeology · Boom · Business · Development economics · Dream · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Empowerment · Ethnography · Geography · Inscribed figure · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Redevelopment · Sociology · Engineering · Law · South African History and Culture · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
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Spectral Alphabets
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Enclave Rustenburg
When retrenchment and loans coincide
Corporate power, urban governance and urban law
Mining, housing and welfare in South Africa and Zambia
Eureka and beyond
Anthropology and Whites in South Africa
Informal settlements and urban heritage landscapes in South Africa
Transnational Clientelism, Global (Resource) Governance, and the Disciplining of Dissent
Women of Phokeng
On the African waterfront
Subversive citizens
Petty Capitalists and Globalization
The Will to Empower
Performing Partnership
A new scramble for Africa? Imperialism, investment and development
On the Edge of Reason
Persistent Polarisation Post-Apartheid? Progress towards Urban Integration in Cape Town
Inventions and Interventions
The geopolitics of South African cities
Developing Ordinary Cities
The Richest Tribe in Africa
In the Company of Diamonds
Expectations of Modernity
Re-siting corporate responsibility
Petty Capitalists and Globalization
Seeing Like an Oil Company
Millennial Capitalism
The return of the broker
| Obras citantes distintas | 14 |
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| Citações por ano | 1 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 14 |