Utopia and dystopia in the post-apartheid city
The praxis of the future in Cape Town
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3609844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Ernsten (Maastricht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 286-302 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02533952.2019.1619420 |
| OpenAlex | W2954145325 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
This essay is concerned with the shaping, the framing and the fashion- ing of the discourse on urban futures in Cape Town, South Africa. I outline the multiple sources and diverse elements that feed into this discourse: specifically, metropolitan theory and local experience. Focusing on the praxis of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, I argue that there is a convergence between the language of crisis and the vision that comes across in policy and futurist scenariobuilding. I point at apartheid modernities and their recapitulation in utopian dreams for the post-apartheid city
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Cape · Dystopia · Framing (construction · Futures contract · Futurist · Media studies · Metropolitan area · Political science · Praxis · Social science · Sociology · Utopia · Gender Studies · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
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Social Justice and the City
City Futures
The discourse-historical approach
Rethinking Repair
Culture as Praxis
Naked City
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Metabolism
Archaeology of Knowledge
Following the Ancestors
With the ballot and the brick
Rebellion of the poor
Poo wars as matter out of place
The Adaptative Nature of Neoliberalism at the Local Scale
Construction nature
African Futures
The Sanitation Syndrome
Naturing the Nation
Governing Post Apartheid Spatiality
Smart cities as corporate storytelling
The 2011 Toilet Wars in South Africa
Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis
Writing the World from an African Metropolis
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |