Description
Book SynopsisReveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa.
Trade Review"Cape Town after Apartheid is a major contribution to the field of urban studies and criminal justice. It provides a framework for understanding gangs, violence, and neoliberal crime policies, emphasizing how security policies are rooted both in neoliberalism and apartheid-era policy and how they serve to strengthen gangs and fail to stem violence." —John Hagedorn, author of A World of Gangs
"Samara’s book masterfully connects the dots between local segregation in South Africa and what he calls the ‘transnational network of neoliberal urban governance.’ Samara’s brilliant treatment of crime, ‘terrorism,’ and gang violence also reminds us of the profound social degradation that the next struggle for genuine emancipation must confront." —Patrick Bond, University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Map of Cape Town
Introduction: Urban Geopolitics, Neoliberalism, and the Governance of Security
1. Security and Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa
2. Children in the Streets: Urban Governance in Cape Town City Center
3. Gangsterism and the Policing of the Cape Flats
4. The Weight of Policing on the Fragile Ground of Transformation
5. The Production of Criminality on the Urban Periphery
Conclusion: Apartheid, Democracy and the Urban Future
Notes
Index
