The Reach of CitizenshipUrban Forum - Tập 18 - Trang 289-309 - 2007
Clive Barnett, Dianne Scott
This paper develops a relational understanding of the geographies of citizenship action, using the example of environmental activism in Durban as an empirical reference point. We argue that citizenship involves an interactive dynamic shaped by different actors’ capacities to project authority and influence over distance by enacting different modalities of spatial reach. Post-apartheid environmenta...... hiện toàn bộ
Regime Politics and Service Delivery in the Cape Town Unicity Council AreaUrban Forum - Tập 22 - Trang 95-110 - 2010
Kem Okecha
The study accounts for the local state conflicts between several political parties governing the city of Cape Town in South Africa’s Western Cape Province, and the resulting effect on service delivery. These conflicts take the form of shifting political alliances and differing agendas about governing the city. The emerging conflicts between these political parties, particularly the African Nationa...... hiện toàn bộ
Local Investment Incentives for Urban Economic Development: Recent Debates in South African CitiesUrban Forum - Tập 20 - Trang 437-453 - 2009
Christian M. Rogerson
The importance of improving the local business environment is an issue of central concern for municipal authorities in South Africa. This article explores debates around territorial competition through the application of local investment incentives. The paper analyses unfolding South African debates concerning the possible introduction of local investment incentives through the policy experience o...... hiện toàn bộ
Ingrained Inequalities? Deconstructing Gendered Spaces in the Informal Waste Economy of Nigerian CitiesUrban Forum - Tập 26 - Trang 113-130 - 2015
Thaddeus Chidi Nzeadibe, Onyanta Adama
As the debates on the definition, scope and applicability of the terms ‘informal sector’ and, in more recent years, the ‘informal economy’ continue, there is a growing interest in the heterogeneity, dynamism and complexity of the sector. This has necessitated a focus on internal differentiation and social relations of power within the informal economy. Gender plays an important role in shaping how...... hiện toàn bộ
Book reviewUrban Forum - - 2003
Gustav Visser, Robert A. Beauregard