Communities, the Private Sector, and the State
Contested Forms of Security Governance in Cape Town and Johannesburg
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6404028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claire Bénit-Gbaffou (0000-0001-8827-2462, Human Science Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa), Sophie Didier (0000-0003-1789-1789, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord), Marianne Morange (0000-0001-7772-7628, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 691-717 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1078087407309223 |
| OpenAlex | W2042745465 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 30 |
In postapartheid South African cities, civil society's loss of confidence in the ability of public authorities to protect citizens reflects the international trend toward the State's delegation of a number of public functions. It has led to the proliferation of private and community initiatives which quickly spread across urban space, taking different forms according to the level of segregation, the shape of the urban fabric, the local culture of urban development and planning, the political context, and the pace of urban growth. This article, informed by the examples of Johannesburg and Cape Town, discusses the specific South African way of handling these delegation processes: a complex mix of neoliberal policies and practices and of the ANC's agenda toward equality and redistribution for democratic South Africa. Indeed, after a transitional period where these initiatives were tolerated, public authorities are currently reasserting their power over some of these forms (community-led initiatives) while still encouraging public-private partnerships (CIDs
Civil society · Context (archaeology · Delegation · Democracy · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Pace · Political science · Politics · Private sector · Redistribution (election · State (computer science · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · Public Administration · South African History and Culture · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Local Activism in Urban Neighborhood Governance
Neo-liberal urban planning policies
Hypersegregation and Class-Based Segregation Processes in Cape Town 2001–2011
Active Citizenship and Neighborhood Governance; North-Western Literature and Global South Realities
Evaluating Ecological, Subcultural and Political Approaches to Neighbourhood Change and Neighbourhood Poverty
Publics of policing
Enclave urbanism as telescopic urbanism? Encounters of middle class whites in Cape Town
The Adaptative Nature of Neoliberalism at the Local Scale
Rescaling White Space in Post‐apartheid Johannesburg
Criminal Threat, Immigrant/Minority Threat, and Political Ideology
Everyday human (in)securities in protected urban nature – Collaborative conservation at Macassar/Wolfgat dunes nature reserves, Cape Town, South Africa
Security and party politics in Cape Town
Partager la fonction répressive
Chinese Private Security Companies and the limit of coercion
The Spreading of the City Improvement District Model in Johannesburg and Cape Town
Policing in Johannesburg after apartheid
Services urbains et néolibéralisme. Approches théoriques et enjeux de développement
A Comparison of Security in City and Small-Town Gated Developments in the Western Cape province, South Africa
Behind Closed Gates
Ordinary Cities
A Government for Our Time? Business Improvement Districts and Urban Governance
A Theory of Justice
Scale, governance and the maintenance of privileged control
Neighbourhood enclosure security initiatives and the partitioning of urban spatial governance in Ibadan and Johannesburg
The rise of governance and the risks of failure
Partnership policing
Dissolving boundaries
Uniting a Divided City; Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg
Emerging Johannesburg
Policing for a New South Africa
City of Quartz
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
Privatising Cape Town
Crime, Fear and Civil Policing
The Commodification of Policing
Community Participation in the Real World
Johannesburg
The Limits of the Sovereign State
Democratizing Security or Decentralizing Repression? The ambiguities of community policing in Kenya
Ethnic Militancy and National Stability in Nigeria
Vigilantes, violence and the politics of public order in Kenya
Geography and public policy
Governance Innovation and the Citizen
Living with non-state policing in South Africa
Neoliberalism
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |