Cape Town After Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City

by Tony Roshan Samara

Book Overview

Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the nation look? In Cape Town, is hardening inequality under conditions of neoliberal globalization actually reproducing the repressive governance of the apartheid era? By exploring issues of urban security and development, Tony Roshan Samara brings to light the features of urban apartheid that increasingly mark not only Cape Town but also the global cities of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816670013
• ISBN13: 9780816670017
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"