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Working Paper No.11. Social Differentiation and Urban Governance in Greater Soweto: a case study of post-apartheid reconstruction

author(s) Beall, J.. - Crankshaw, O.. - Parnell, S.
from UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
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  • Southern Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
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Crankshaw, O.; Parnell, S.; Beall, J. Working Paper No.11. Social Differentiation and Urban Governance in Greater Soweto: a case study of post-apartheid reconstruction. (2002) 25 pp

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Abstract

This paper explores the historical and contemporary terrain of local level struggles in post-apartheid Meadowlands, a township in Greater Soweto. It looks at the implications for urban governance of increasing social differentiation and suggests that social polarisation mitigates against sustained levels of public action

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