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Elite Compacts in Africa: The Role of Area-based Management in the New Governmentality of the Durban City-region

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  • Jo Beall
  • Susan Parnell
  • Chris Albertyn

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type="main"> Through reflection on the practical post-apartheid (re)alignment of competing rationalities across the Greater Durban urban region, this essay teases out the interface between traditional and modern settlement management systems, and explores how governance cleavages are being renegotiated and mediated. It is suggested that, in building an integrated method of operating across the fragmented city-regional scale and navigating the competing interests involved, the practice of African urbanism is being defined. Without making any claims for what may or may not be uniquely African city-regional dynamics at the boundaries of tradition and modernity, what is clear from the Durban case is that both conventional city-regional literature and new city-regional ideas have glossed over the complexity of finding solutions to tensions between poor communities, urban managers, elected local authorities and the traditional rural elites of the functional city-regions of Africa.

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  • Jo Beall & Susan Parnell & Chris Albertyn, 2015. "Elite Compacts in Africa: The Role of Area-based Management in the New Governmentality of the Durban City-region," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(2), pages 390-406, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:39:y:2015:i:2:p:390-406
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