This
article concerns the struggle waged by the poor in Cape Town, South
Africa, to assert
their constitutional rights to shelter and basic services and protect
their life spaces
against neoliberal policies. Using insurgent urbanism and active
citizenship as
its conceptual guide, this article attempts to enhance understanding
of grassroots spaces for practicing inclusive citizenship, stretching
beyond a limited interpretation of formal citizen participation.
Through the example of the Western Cape
Anti-Eviction Campaign in South Africa, the article aims to
contribute to a recent opening in the planning inquiry by overcoming
the selective definition of what
constitutes civil society and public participation and underlining
the significance of invited and invented spaces of citizen
participation in the formation of inclusive citizenship and just
cities.
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