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Elite compacts in Africa: the role of area-based management in the new governmentality of the Durban city-region

Beall, Jo ORCID: 0000-0002-1898-3872, Parnell, Susan and Albertyn, Chris (2015) Elite compacts in Africa: the role of area-based management in the new governmentality of the Durban city-region. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 39 (2). pp. 390-406. ISSN 0309-1317

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Identification Number: 10.1111/1468-2427.12178

Abstract

Through reflection on the practical post-apartheid (re)alignment of competing rationalities across the Greater Durban urban region, this essay teases out the interface between traditional and modern settlement management systems, and explores how governance cleavages are being renegotiated and mediated. It is suggested that, in building an integrated method of operating across the fragmented city-regional scale and navigating the competing interests involved, the practice of African urbanism is being defined. Without making any claims for what may or may not be uniquely African city-regional dynamics at the boundaries of tradition and modernity, what is clear from the Durban case is that both conventional city-regional literature and new city-regional ideas have glossed over the complexity of finding solutions to tensions between poor communities, urban managers, elected local authorities and the traditional rural elites of the functional city-regions of Africa.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14682427
Additional Information: © 2015 Urban Research Publications Limited
Divisions: LSE Cities
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government
Date Deposited: 07 Nov 2019 10:48
Last Modified: 08 Mar 2024 04:12
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/102407

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