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- Title
'From shack to the Constitutional Court' The litigious disruption of governing global cities.
- Authors
Selmeczi, Anna
- Abstract
The article focuses on the struggle of shack dwellers in South Africa, particularly through the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement, for equality in settlements in the cities and its implications to the governance of global cities. It discusses the disapproval of the so-called Slums Act in KwaZulu-Natal, which aimed to eradicate informal settlements in the province, and the significance of such decision to biopolitics. It relates the argument of Michel Foucault on the inclusion of biological life into politics and the conception of Jacques Rancière on the relationship between politics and equality. It also explores urban areas' biopolitical government and their juridico-legal technologies.
- Subjects
KWAZULU-Natal (South Africa); SOUTH Africa; LEGAL status of squatters; SQUATTER settlements; BIOPOLITICS (Sociobiology); EQUALITY; CITIES &; towns; URBAN ecology (Sociology); FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; RANCIERE, Jacques, 1940-
- Publication
Utrecht Law Review, 2011, Vol 7, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
1871-515X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18352/ulr.162