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1 online resource |
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Part I, Seeing the local state through City officials' practices. 2 'Welcome to Alcatraz': a reflection on three years in a City bureaucracy ; 3 Activists in the State: City officials working behind the scenes for change in post-apartheid Johannesburg ; 4 Bureaucratic activism for inclusionary development in the City of Johannesburg ; 5 Entering the state as a community activist: the Operation Khanyisa Movement in Johannesburg City Council -- Part II, Seeing the local state from its margins. 6 Acting like the state? Leaders' participation in street trade management in Gauteng municipalities ; 7 Crafting a xenophobic bureaucratic order after May 2008 pogroms in Cape Town ; 8 The politics of formulating policy on housing evictions in post-apartheid Johannesburg -- Part III, Seeing the local state through its policy instruments. 9 Identifying learners in Johannesburg schools: how state rationalities converge to construct institutional xenophobia ; 10 Seeing and unseeing: housing, poverty and privilege on Johannesburg's Corridors of Freedom ; 11 Deceptive lenses: officials' and activists' visions of water issues in eThekwini ; 12 Lost in translation: The elusive equity objective in Johannesburg water policy ; 13 'Doing things right' or 'doing the right thing'? Limits to evaluative thinking in Johannesburg -- Part IV, International perspectives on the art of progressive city government. 14 Is there a 'left art' of City government? A view from post-apartheid South Africa) ; 15 Preserving the progressive City: a North American perspective ; 16 Porous bureaucracies, land and urban inclusion: a perspective from Indian Cities ; 17 Blurred boundaries and institutional activism: reflections from Brazil. |
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Urban renewal -- South Africa.
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Local government -- South Africa.
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Rénovation urbaine -- Afrique du Sud.
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Administration locale -- Afrique du Sud.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1800085478 9781800085473 (OCoLC)1394973688 |
| ISBN |
9781800085466 (electronic bk.) |
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180008546X (electronic bk.) |
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1800085478 |
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9781800085473 |
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AU@ 000076350057 |
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