Description
| Product ID: | 9781786999092 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Politics and Society in Urban Africa |
| Title: | The Agonistic City? |
| Subtitle: | State-Society Strife in Johannesburg |
| Authors: | Author: Li Pernegger |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Urban communities, Urban communities, Sociology, Political structure and processes, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Sociology, Political structure & processes, Urban & municipal planning, Republic of South Africa |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An exploration of the realities and potential of the state's agonistic practices in response to service delivery strife from 1996 to the current day in Johannesburg. An exploration of Johannesburg’s post-apartheid''s city administration''s governance of conflict from 1996 to the current day, in the case of service delivery protests and shifts in city policy. The author, Li Pernegger, focuses in-depth on the water wars in Orange Farm, insurgent informal traders in the inner city, and the billing battle fought by the middle class.This book provides deep insights into facets of protests: from the local state''s qualification of the conflicts; its portrayals of protestors; its agonistic and antagonistic responses to protestors'' claims; to power dynamics and the forms of agreement reached.Pernegger considers what the practical prospects of agonism might be for the local government to regard city strife in its practices of governance as a constructive – rather than destructive – force for change, and the realisation of democratic ideals for its ordinary citizens. |
| Imprint Name: | Zed Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-11-26 |
