Showing posts with label The Politics of Space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Politics of Space. Show all posts
Friday, 21 August 2015

“They Will Not Take the Street”: Ferguson and Colonial Histories

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Paddy O'Halloran, CounterPunch Last week, activists staged protests in Ferguson, Missouri to memorialize the death of unarmed, blac...
Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Sisulu’s War of the Ages Begins

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Richard Pithouse, The Con In 2005, early in her in her first term as Minister of Housing, Lindiwe Sisulu announced that the state had r...
Monday, 27 October 2014

Walking while black at 9.50am

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Nikiwe Bikitsha Nikiwe Bikitsha, Mail &  Guardian Walking while black has always has its hazards in this country. The most comm...
Saturday, 25 October 2014

Invisible No More

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George Ciccariello-Maher, The Jacobin Geographically, Caracas, Venezuela consists of a relatively short, narrow valley just over twenty...

New struggle is for ownership of the city

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Marie Huchzermeyer, Mail &  Guardian The imprint of apartheid is still evident in South African cities. As acknowledged widely by p...
Saturday, 18 October 2014

ANC and DA discover common ground

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by Jared Sacks, Mail &  Guardian The ANC and the Democratic Alliance always bicker over the cause of land occupations and who promo...
Thursday, 2 October 2014

“We are Humans and Not Dogs”

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Zachary Levenson ,  Berkeley  Journal of Sociology The South African government has delivered well over 3 million formal homes free of ...
Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Apartheid geography and murder in Cape Town

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Zackie Achmat, GroundUp At approximately 59/100,000 people per year, Cape Town has one of the highest murder rates in the world. What can...
Saturday, 13 September 2014

Occupying Space: The Battle for Politics

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Helena Chávez Mac Gregor, Johannesburg Workshop in Theory & Criticism For more than a decade, the construction of politics has been d...

Footnotes on the off-shore city

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Achille Mbembe, Johannesburg Workshop in Theory & Criticism   At the start of the 21st century, we witness a renewed interest in the...
Friday, 12 September 2014

Evictions at the Chris Hani (eNsimbini) and Marikana (Cato Crest) Land Occupations

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Martha Chofe & her son with her shack illegally destroyed  by the Land Invasions Unit at the  Marikana land Occupation on 10 Septembe...
Friday, 22 August 2014

Eviction at the Marikana Land Occupation (Cape Town) - 22 August 2014

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22 August 2014 Eviction at Marikana from Pablo Pinedo Bóveda on Vimeo .
Tuesday, 19 August 2014

What is an 'outside agitator'?

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Richard Seymour, Lenin's Tomb In Ferguson, Missouri, there are 'outside agitators'.  On this, the reactionaries and liberal...
Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Where you from Van Damme?

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Athambile Masola, Thought Leader Athambile Masola “Every black African everywhere is rightly or wrongly perceived to originate — a con...
Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Raymond Suttner on State Repression and Illegality in Durban

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Friday, 27 June 2014

Rhodes University's Dr. Richard Pithouse on urban spaces and illegal occupations in SA

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Thursday, 19 June 2014

The World Cup as Pacification

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Christopher McMichael, The Con The 2014 World Cup is not only a jamboree for the world’s premier national football teams, but it is als...
Friday, 6 June 2014

'The Lethal Segmentation of the Urban Order': Kennedy Road shack fire, seen from Puntan's Hill (4 June 2014)

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Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Cape Town: A City Designed to Forget

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 Ilham Rawoot, The Con “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” -      Milan Kundera, The Book ...
Friday, 4 April 2014

The Urban Land Question

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Richard Pithouse, SACSIS Urban land is acutely contested in contemporary South Africa. There are regular land occupations, some taking ...