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Scale of Belonging: Gauteng 30 Years After the Repeal of the Group Areas Act

Scale of Belonging: Gauteng 30 Years After the Repeal of the Group Areas Act Since the repeal of the Group Areas Act three decades ago, South Africa’s once-divided spaces have merged, and race-based restrictions on political participation have been eliminated. The result is that the territories to which people belong have transformed, and in many cases have increased in scale. This editorial introduces a special issue on the scale of belonging, which consists of a series of case studies in Gauteng Province. It considers the possibilities, complexities and limits of this aspect of spatial transformation. It provides two cross-cutting themes running through the articles. The first is that scales of belonging are produced by state practices, the private sector and ordinary users of space. The second is that actors invest in particular scales preferentially, either for their immediate benefit or for the benefit of society as a whole. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Forum Springer Journals

Scale of Belonging: Gauteng 30 Years After the Repeal of the Group Areas Act

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2021
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1015-3802
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1874-6330
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10.1007/s12132-021-09429-5
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Since the repeal of the Group Areas Act three decades ago, South Africa’s once-divided spaces have merged, and race-based restrictions on political participation have been eliminated. The result is that the territories to which people belong have transformed, and in many cases have increased in scale. This editorial introduces a special issue on the scale of belonging, which consists of a series of case studies in Gauteng Province. It considers the possibilities, complexities and limits of this aspect of spatial transformation. It provides two cross-cutting themes running through the articles. The first is that scales of belonging are produced by state practices, the private sector and ordinary users of space. The second is that actors invest in particular scales preferentially, either for their immediate benefit or for the benefit of society as a whole.

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Urban Forum – Springer Journals

Published: May 28, 2021

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