Peripheries,suburbanisms and change in sub-Saharan African cities |
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Authors: | Alan Mabin Siân Butcher Robin Bloch |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , South Africa alan.mabin@wits.ac.za;3. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America;4. University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , South Africa;5. ICF GHK Consulting , London, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | The ‘revisionist’ view of South African history has an advantage in understanding the role of values in terms of class structures, as opposed to liberal orthodoxy that sees ‘race’ as an autonomous variable: a view that is both static and unhistorical. The problem of explaining these values, however remains for class analysis can be accused of economic determinism. Pluralism may, therefore, be of use as a supplement to class analysis by interpreting values in a subjective sense. Class becomes only one of a number of forms of political consciousness (i.e. religious, ‘tribal’ or ethnic) and the analysis shifts to a market of competing political ideologies. This view is explored empirically by the example of the rise of a segregationist ideology in South Africa in the twentieth century. |
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Keywords: | suburbanism periphery urban growth |
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