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Title: | The Political Stakes of Academic Research: Perspectives on Johannesburg |
Author: | Chipkin, Ivor |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review |
Volume: | 48 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 87-109 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | urban economy municipal government urban society social research literature reviews (form) Urbanization and Migration Bibliography/Research Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations History and Exploration |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_studies_review/v048/48.2chipkin.pdf |
Abstract: | The author offers a critical review of the recent academic writing on the inner city of Johannesburg, South Africa. The writers of this literature come to their studies from different normative perspectives. For some authors, the city is primarily a political-economic system, where the central questions are ones of poverty and marginalization. For others the city is treated more from the perspective of municipal institutions, such that the challenges relate to management and to governance. For still others, the city is examined from the perspective of culture. The present author brings to the fore the political consequences of these different views. He concludes not by seeking to reconcile these perspectives, but by suggesting a way of retaining a commitment to equality and justice while not reducing them simply to questions of economy. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [ASC Leiden abstract] |