Harris, Adam S;
Scheba, Andreas;
Rice, Louis;
(2023)
Making Demands on Government: Theorizing Determinants of Backyard Residents’ Collective Action in Cape Town, South Africa.
African Studies Review
10.1017/asr.2023.10.
(In press).
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Abstract
Informality is growing with Africa’s rapid urbanization. Much like residents of other types of informal housing, backyard dwellers face overall poor living conditions and political marginalization. However, backyard residents are in an ambiguous legal area and have been far less politically active and organized to pursue their rights to adequate housing. Using a qualitative case study of backyard residents in three Cape Town neighborhoods, Harris, Scheba, and Rice bridge theories of infrastructural citizenship and collective action to shed light on how informality may undermine collective action, and they identify four factors influencing collective action.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Making Demands on Government: Theorizing Determinants of Backyard Residents’ Collective Action in Cape Town, South Africa |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/asr.2023.10 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.10 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the African Studies Association. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | South Africa, backyard, collective action, informal housing, urban politics, infrastructural citizenship |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10168155 |
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