Li Pernegger

The Agonistic City? (eBook, ePUB)

State-Society Strife in Johannesburg

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786999054
• Artikelnr.: 60698178

Autorenporträt

Li Pernegger recently completed a postdoctoral fellow at the Witwatersrand School of Governance and a former official in city and national governments. She has over 25 years of project, programme and strategic management experience in complex built-environment and socio-economic initiatives. She is currently an advisor on urban development and local governance matters to the National Treasury of South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Strife and the State
2. Agonism in Public Practice
3. Johannesburg's Conflict and Governance Timeline
4. Water Wars of Orange Farm
5. Informal Trading Struggle in the Inner City
6. Billing Backlash by Middle-Class Suburbia
7. Agonism's Possibilities
Final Reflections