Gaining ground: Squatters and the right to the city
Abstract
This essay concerns the history of squatting in Cape Town beginning in the early to
mid-twentieth century and concluding after the transition to democracy. It focuses
specifically on a series of contiguous settlements in the south eastern region of
the Cape Metropolitan Area.
Type
Journal articlePermalink
https://hdl.handle.net/10161/24196Collections
More Info
Show full item recordScholars@Duke
Anne-Maria B. Makhulu
Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology
Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African
and African American Studies and Core Faculty in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at
Duke University. Her research interests cover: Africa and more specifically South
Africa, cities, space, globalization, political economy, neoliberalism, the anthropology
of finance and corporations, as well as questions of aesthetics, including the literature
of South Afr
Articles written by Duke faculty are made available through the campus open access policy. For more information see: Duke Open Access Policy
Rights for Collection: Scholarly Articles
Works are deposited here by their authors, and represent their research and opinions, not that of Duke University. Some materials and descriptions may include offensive content. More info