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来源

URBAN STUDIES,Vol.55,Issue2,P.274-295

语言

英文

关键字

Cape Town; informal settlements; material culture; poverty; socio-technical systems; urban governance; SOUTH-AFRICA; CITIES; INFRASTRUCTURE; LESSONS; POLICY

作者单位

[Amin, Ash] Univ Cambridge, Cambridge, England. [Cirolia, Liza Rose] Univ Cape Town, African Ctr Cities, Cape Town, South Africa. Amin, A (reprint author), Univ Cambridge, Dept Geog, Downing Pl, Cambridge CB2 3EN, England. E-Mail: aha29@cam.ac.uk

摘要

Through the lens of South Africa's informal settlements, this paper explores the intersections between plans, practices and materiality. These three arenas are each presented as uniquely agentic, contributing to plural configurations. In doing so, this work questions a prevalent tendency to frame governance/government solely as relationships between state and non-state actors. By reintroducing the agency and power of matter and materiality, not as adjunct or background, but as a critical technology of government and/in place, this work contributes to a growing debate within the (emerging) urban socio-technical systems literature.