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The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class

Planet of slums

(2007). Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective. Journal of Economic Issues: Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 883-885.

Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

Since the onset of the global economic crisis in 2007/2008 two key trends have made it necessary to reconceptualize the relationship between development and sustainability: the rapid rise of the so-called ‘BRICS’ and the emergence of the green economy discourse and now since 2015 the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals. To address this challenge with respect to developing economies in the global South, this paper endeavours to fuse the core conceptual concerns of the developmental state and sustainability transition literatures. It is argued that a just transition would consist of a dual commitment to human well-being (with respect to income, education and health) and sustainability (with respect to decarbonization, resource efficiency and ecosystem restoration). However, to understand these processes we need a better understanding of political dynamics, and for this purpose the notion of a socio-political regime is introduced. A case study of South Africa's dual developmental and enviro...

Developmental States and Sustainability Transitions: Prospects of a Just Transition in South Africa

Housing policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa

The state…is the coldest of all monsters…(it) lies in languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies – and whatever it has, it has stolen…only there, where the state ceases, does the man who is not superfluous begin…(Nietzche, 1969 cited in Rose and Miller 1992:173) Nowadays the ambition to 'change the world' meets with cynicism – because of the questionable record of several development decades, doubts over social engineering and rationalist planning as exercises in authoritarianism, and over modernism and the utopian belief in the perfectability of society. Yet all this does not alter the necessity to 'change the world', nor does it alter the fact that development is about changing the world, with all the pitfalls that it involves, including the legacy of social engineering and Enlightenment confidence tricks (Nederveen Pieterse 2000:187). The South African Homeless People's Federation calls itself uMfelanda Wonye – 'we die together'. It's because if you are poor, no matter how good you talk English, no matter how good you can walk, but at the end of day, you are poor. And then if you are alone at a certain corner, you will be [sic] never come up with the ideas of fighting poverty. But now with the Federation, it is said: For us to try and challenge this problem of poverty, homelessness and landlessness, it's for us to come together and form a family and then when we are a family, every problem that comes we will challenge it together. If somebody wants to kill us, he will kill us together. So it means forming ourselves into a family with a common understanding of what we want to achieve at the end of the day. So this is why we said we should call ourselves uMfelanda Wonye waBantu wesemijondolo – the Federation of the homeless people who are staying in the shacks around our country in South Africa. (Interview, Molokane 13.05.04).

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The Homeless People??s Alliance: Purposive Creation and Ambiguated Realities

The South African social security system is globally lauded for pioneering new conceptions of society and social assistance, and is celebrated as offering the world an alternative to mainstream social policy. What then accounts for better outcomes in poverty and inequality reduction in countries with similar social security systems? The paper locates the ‘diminishing progressivity’ of the South African system in the interlocking dynamics of structural violence, structural exclusion, racialised nationalism, financialisation and the subversion of democracy. The massive rebellion in the streets against the rule of rich and property is a reflection of the poor losing hope and patience.

Poverty, grants, revolution and ‘real Utopias’: society must be defended by any and all means necessary!

Critical perspectives on post-apartheid housing praxis through the developmental statecraft looking glass

Neopatrimonialism, according to the distinguished development scholar, Thandika Mkandawire [2015. “Neopatrimonialism and the Political Economy of Economic Performance in Africa: Critical Reflection...

Neopatrimonialism and corruption: towards a new common sense*

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