Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Elements of Living Politics
Fire / Umlilo
1 “Where There Is Fire, There Is Politics”: The Material Life of Governance
Water / Amanzi
2 Debts of Liberal State Transition: Liquid Belonging and Consumer Citizenship
Air / Umoya
3 Coughing Out the City: Everyday Healing in the Toxic Borderlands
Land / Umhlaba
4 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: How Territorial Informality Builds Future Cities
Modular Elements
5 “The Anger of the Poor Can Go in Many Directions”: Rematerializing Identity and Difference
Conclusion: Liberal Governance and the Urban Poor Revisited
Notes
References
Index
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History: African History
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