ESF/N-AERUS International Workshop
Leuven and Brussels, Belgium, 23-26 May 2001

COPING WITH INFORMALITY AND ILLEGALITY
IN HUMAN SETTLEMENTS IN DEVELOPING CITIES

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Graeme Gotz - AbdouMaliq Simone

The Implications of Informality on Governmentality: The case of Johannesburg in the context of Sub-Saharan urbanisation


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ABSTRACT

Actors in fluid African urban environments try to make collaborative action work, collective responsibility enforceable, and instruments of power effective and legitimate. These efforts give rise to an uneasy tension between the adoption of normative discourses concerning urban management and governance, the ways in which urban residents attempt to adapt to a vast range of new opportunities and crises, and the role of the city as a place of experimentation.



ESF/N-AERUS: International workshop - Leuven and Brussels, Belgium, 23-26 May 2001

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