« Our rural sense of place » Rurality and Strategies of Self-Segregation in the Cape Peninsula (South Africa)
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Justice spatiale = Spatial justice. 2015-01 n° 7, p. http://www.jssj.org/article/our-rural-sense-of-place-ruralite-et-strategies-de-defense-de-lentre-soi-dans-la-peninsule-du-cap-afrique-du-sud/
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, UMR LAVUE 7218, Laboratoire Mosaïques
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The local use of so-called rurality as political ways to protect whiteness within the very segregated Cape Peninsula is informing on some racial resistance to post-apartheid change in South Africa. As the country as a ...Leer más >
The local use of so-called rurality as political ways to protect whiteness within the very segregated Cape Peninsula is informing on some racial resistance to post-apartheid change in South Africa. As the country as a whole, the Cape metropolis is marked by high socio-spatial inequalities. Post-apartheid spatial and demographic changes accelerated transformations of local governance. In that particular context, recent claims made by local resident’s associations to protect their rural identity - characterised by countryside place names, farming architecture and European cultural landscape,-appear to be a strategy of withdrawal opposed to urban sprawl and new metropolitan governance. Eventually, the defence of rurality seems to challenge spatial justice in favouring close-knit communities and socio-spatial segregation.< Leer menos
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Cape Peninsula
South Africa
sense of place
rurality
residents association
spatial justice
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