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Title: | Administrative strategies and political power in South Africa's black townships 1930-1960 |
Author: | Robinson, Jennifer |
Year: | 1991 |
Periodical: | Urban Forum |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 63-77 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | indirect rule townships |
External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03036679 |
Abstract: | 'Native administrators' and other State officials directly responsible for the daily supervision of African people in particular 'locations' (later 'townships') are appearing in the pages of the history of South Africa with increasing regularity. This paper initiates an interpretation of these often lowly officials who played a large part in the domination and subjugation of the African population in this country. After introducing the 'location superintendents' or native administrators, the paper considers aspects of their professional networks and their role in coordinating ideas and practices designed to achieve routine control over African residents living in 'locations'. These strategies are explored, first, in terms of the spatial arrangements considered appropriate for achieving control (the provision of housing and welfare) and, second, in terms of the relationship forged between administrators and residents. Finally, the relations between administrators and the central State are discussed before the more general, theoretical implications of the paper are revisited. Bibliogr., note, ref. |