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Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development Sara Dehkordi Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development Political Science | Volume 99 This open access publication has been enabled by the support of POLLUX (Fachinforma- tionsdienst Politikwissenschaft) and a collaborative network of academic libraries for the promotion of the Open Access transformation in the Social Sciences and Humanities (transcript Open Library Politik- wissenschaft 2020) This publication is compliant with the “Recommendations on quality standards for the open access provision of books”, Nationaler Open Access Kontaktpunkt 2018 (https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2932189) Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz | Universität Landesbibliothek Münster (University Wien Bibliotheks- und Archivwesen | of Munster) | Universitätsbibliothek Bergische Universität Wuppertal | Carl Bielefeld (University of Bielefeld) | von Ossietzky-Universität (University Universitätsbibliothek der Bauhaus- of Oldenburg) | Freie Universität Berlin Universität Weimar (University of Weimar) (FU) (Free University of Berlin) | Georg- | Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen- August-Universität Göttingen | Goethe- Nürnberg (FAU University Erlangen- Universität-Frankfurt/M (University of Nürnberg) | Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main) | Gottfried Wilhelm Hagen (Fernuni Hagen) (University of Leibniz Bibliothek – Niedersächsische Hagen) | Universitätsbibliothek Kassel | Landesbibliothek | Gottfried Wilhelm Universitätsbibliothek Koblenz-Landau | Leibniz Universität Hannover | Humboldt- Universitätsbibliothek Konstanz (University Universität zu Berlin | Justus-Liebig- of Konstanz) | Universitätsbibliothek Universität Gießen (University of Giessen) | Leipzig (University of Leipzig) | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Universitätsbibliothek Mainz (University (LMU) | Martin-Luther-Universität of Mainz) | Universitätsbibliothek Halle-Wittenberg | Max Planck Digital Marburg | Universitätsbibliothek Library | Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) Osnabrück (University of Osnabrück) | Sächsische Landesbibliothek Staats- und | Universitätsbibliothek Passau Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) | | Universitätsbibliothek Siegen | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg | Zentral- Library) | ULB Darmstadt | Universität und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern (ZHB) Bayreuth | Universität Duisburg-Essen | (Central and University Library of Lucerne) Universität Hamburg (UHH) | Universität | Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Central Library Potsdam (University of Potsdam) | of Zurich) | Bundesministerium der Universität Vechta | Universität zu Köln| Verteidigung | Landesbibliothek Oldenburg Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek (State Library of Oldenburg) | Leibniz- Düsseldorf (University and State Institut für Europäische Geschichte | Library Düsseldorf) | Universitäts- und Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Sara Dehkordi is a lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Freie Uni- versität Berlin. She teaches postcolonial and decolonial theories, on colonial genocide, the Ne- gritude and Black Consciousness Movement, neoliberal urbanism, and critical peace and con- flict studies. She has received the German Tiburtius Prize for outstanding research for her work leading to the book »Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development«. Sara Dehkordi Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development Forced Evictions and Criminalisation Practices in Present-Day South Africa D188 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nation- albibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http:// dnb.d-nb.de This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (BY) license, which means that the text may be be remixed, transformed and built upon and be copied and redistributed in any medium or format even commercially, provided credit is given to the author. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons license terms for re-use do not apply to any content (such as graphs, figures, photos, excerpts, etc.) not original to the Open Access publication and further permission may be required from the rights holder. The obligation to research and clear permission lies solely with the party re-using the material. First published in 2020 by transcript Verlag, Bielefeld © Sara Dehkordi All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or uti- lized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Cover layout: Maria Arndt, Bielefeld Cover illustration: Sara Dehkordi: The ruins of the evicted pensioners’ houses in Pontac, Nelson and Aspeling Street - District Sx, Cape Town Printed by Majuskel Medienproduktion GmbH, Wetzlar Print-ISBN 978-3-8376-5310-6 PDF-ISBN 978-3-8394-5310-0 EPUB-ISBN 978-3-7328-5310-6 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839453100 Printed on permanent acid-free text paper. Contents Acknowledgements ................................................................ 9 Introduction ........................................................................13 Beginnings................................................................................................... 13 Impressions ................................................................................................. 16 The book ..................................................................................................... 21 Chapter one The colonial archives repertoire ................................................... 31 Introduction ................................................................................................. 31 Thinking archive with Derrida ......................................................................... 34 Coloniality and the archive ............................................................................. 38 The archive, institutionalisation, and the making of memory..................................40 Archive and method...................................................................................... 43 Thinking the forbidden archive.........................................................................46 Coloniality and the Urban Development Discourse................................................ 51 Imagining a third space..................................................................................62 Conclusion...................................................................................................64 Chapter two Policies of Displacement – Forced Evictions and their Discursive Framing ........ 69 Introduction .................................................................................................69 The District Six evictions ................................................................................75 The evictions of the Joe Slovo Residents............................................................79 The evictions in Symphony Way....................................................................... 84 The Tafelsig evictions ....................................................................................87 Blikkiesdorp................................................................................................. 91 Conclusion...................................................................................................94 Chapter three “Cleaning” the streets – Urban Development Discourse and criminalisation practices ......................................................................... 99 Introduction ............................................................................................... 100 Politico-economic violence and the coloniality of the present .............................. 103 The category of “the poor” and the disciplining effects of space............................107 Superfluous informal traders.......................................................................... 117 The security sector and the production of fear...................................................126 The business elite........................................................................................ 136 Urban Development Discourse and media......................................................... 148 Conclusion..................................................................................................156 Chapter four Architectures of Division ......................................................... 163 Introduction ............................................................................................... 163 First coordinate: Table Mountain..................................................................... 166 Second coordinate: Vredehoek Quarry ..............................................................178 Third coordinate: Victoria Road...................................................................... 189 Fourth coordinate: Imizamo Yethu ...................................................................194 Fifth coordinate: Main Library, University of Stellenbosch.................................... 198 Conclusion.................................................................................................205 Chapter five Intervention through art – Performing is making visible........................... 211 Introduction ...............................................................................................
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