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Title:Special issue: critical cities I: security, citizenship and governance
Editor:Dirsuweit, TeresaISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:Urban Forum (ISSN 1874-6330)
Volume:17
Issue:4
Pages:295-412
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:crime prevention
national security
urban areas
community participation
civil and political rights
External link:https://link.springer.com/journal/12132/volumes-and-issues/17-4
Abstract:This special edition is the result of an ongoing collaboration between the Institut français d'Afrique du Sud and the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, which resulted in the first of a series of workshops titled Critical Cities (Johannesburg, 2005). An overarching concern of all authors is that as security is consumed as a private commodity, urban residents are stripped of their potential to interact with the city, the State and each other as 'citadins'. Following the Introduction by Teresa Dirsuweit, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou looks at community policing in Yeoville and Observatory, Johannesburg, South Africa; Teresa Dirsuweit and Alex Wafer examine the operation of road closures by residents in the wealthy neighbourhoods of Johannesburg; Marianne Morange and Sophie Didier use the case of Cape Town to focus on the discursive justifications for the implementation or discontinuance of security schemes and show how these justifications reflect and reveal the local power structure; Oluseyi O. Fabiyi examines neighbourhood enclosure security initiatives (particularly residents' associations) and the partitioning of urban spatial governance in Ibadan (Nigeria) and Johannesburg (South Africa). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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