
Published online:
24 August 2015
Published in print:
04 July 2011
Online ISBN:
9781452947044
Print ISBN:
9780816670000
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Insecurity in the Global South: Toward an Urban Geopolitics Insecurity in the Global South: Toward an Urban Geopolitics
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Fear in the City: The Centrality of Security to Neoliberal Urban Governance Fear in the City: The Centrality of Security to Neoliberal Urban Governance
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Urban Governance, the Police, and Civilization Urban Governance, the Police, and Civilization
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The Neoliberalization of Racial Governance The Neoliberalization of Racial Governance
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Structure of the Research and the Book Structure of the Research and the Book
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Chapter
Introduction Urban Geopolitics, Neoliberalism, and the Governance of Security
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Published:July 2011
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Samara, Tony Roshan, 'Urban Geopolitics, Neoliberalism, and the Governance of Security', Cape Town after Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City (Minneapolis, MN , 2011; online edn, Minnesota Scholarship Online, 24 Aug. 2015), https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816670000.003.0001, accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This introductory chapter provides a background to the social forces and sets of relationships that outlines the contemporary urban governance in Cape Town. It talks about brutal gang wars linked to drug trade and homeless people harassed by police or private security guards, which describe an approach to crime and urban renewal in Cape Town as a global phenomenon wherein cities become key sites of economic growth, conflict, and political governance. The chapter also illustrates how Cape Town is governed through a complex network in which local and global forces clash and combine to reproduce the fractured urban spaces inherited from apartheid.
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