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- Title
The South African Transition: From Development to Security?
- Authors
Jensen, Steffen
- Abstract
This article questions some recent analyses which claim that global neo-liberal discourses are disseminated to shift the focus away from development towards a greater emphasis on security issues. Taking as its point of departure the analysis of empirical material from Cape Town, the article shows that security and development in South Africa were never separate concerns. After the ANC came to power in 1994 there was an effort to boost development efforts rather than security. However, these efforts were soon dwarfed by local circumstances, notably the pressure from local state employees who felt their jobs and lives to be under threat from the townships, and the changing nature of violence in the city. The first part of the article details the practices and discourses of state agencies; the second section analyses the consequences of reconfigured security and development concerns for the production of political subjectivity in South Africa's townships.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; SOUTH African politics &; government; ECONOMIC development; NATIONAL security; NEOLIBERALISM; GOVERNMENT agencies
- Publication
Development & Change, 2005, Vol 36, Issue 3, p551
- ISSN
0012-155X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.0012-155X.2005.00423.x