Cape Town after apartheid [electronic resource] : crime and governance in the divided city / Tony Roshan Samara.

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Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the nation look? In Cape Town, is hardening inequality under conditions of neoliberal globalization actually reproducing the repressive governance of the apartheid era? By exploring issues of urban security and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Samara, Tony Roshan
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
Subjects:	Crime > South Africa > Cape Town. Crime prevention > South Africa > Cape Town. Violence > South Africa > Cape Town. Gangs > South Africa > Cape Town. Police > South Africa > Cape Town.
Online Access:	ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2011 (Ebook Central @ Proquest) Books at JSTOR: 2011 (JSTOR)
Variant Title:	Cape Town after Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Introduction : urban geopolitics, neoliberalism, and the governance of security
Security and development in postapartheid South Africa
Children in the streets : urban governance in Cape Town city center
Gangsterism and the policing of the Cape Flats
The weight of policing on the fragile ground of transformation
The production of criminality on the urban periphery
Conclusion : apartheid, democracy and the urban future.