Living politics in South Africa's urban shacklands / Kerry Ryan Chance.

Contents Introduction: elements of living politics -- Fire / Umlilo. "Where there is fire, there is politics": the material life of governance -- Water / Amanzi. Debts of liberal state transition: liquid belonging and consumer citizenship -- Air / Umoya. Coughing out the city: everyday healing in the toxic borderlands -- Land / Umhlaba. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust: how territorial informality builds future cities -- Modular elements. "The anger of the poor can go in many directions": rematerializing identity and difference -- Conclusion: liberal governance and the urban poor revisited.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 165-177) and index.
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LCCN 2017039629
ISBN9780226519524 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226519661 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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