“There is life in this place”: “DIY formalisation,” buoyant life and citizenship in Marikana informal settlement, Potchefstroom, South Africa
“There is life in this place”: “DIY formalisation,” buoyant life and citizenship in Marikana informal settlement, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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“这个地方有生命”：南非波切夫斯特鲁姆马里卡纳非正式定居点的“DIY 正规化”、活跃的生活和公民身份
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2019
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H. Victor
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位于南非西北部波切夫斯特罗姆的Marikana非正式定居点的居民被贴上“太不正规”的标签，无法获得基本服务，他们计划并实施了当地人所称的“DIY正规化”，以便在政治上呼吁市议会为他们提供服务。在这一正规化过程中，居民自己布置了看台和街道，并安装了水利基础设施，以努力争取进入城市及其基础设施的权利，并坚持他们对现代城市生活的渴望。如果没有正式的市政服务，马里卡纳的生活可以被描述为用菲奥娜·罗斯的话说是“原始生活”--在贫困和苦难中的不完整生活。借鉴罗斯的“体面生活”的概念，我认为马里卡纳的DIY正规化确保了我所说的“活跃的生活”：DIY正规化，特别是水利基础设施，不仅使物质生活，而且使政治生活(以公民身份和体面的形式)能够在国家抛弃的减少浪潮中得到提振。
Their shack settlement labelled “too informal” to receive basic service provision, the residents of Marikana informal settlement, in Potchefstroom, North West province, South Africa, planned and executed what was locally referred to as “DIY formalisation” in order to politically appeal to the city council to provide them with services. During this formalisation, residents themselves laid out stands and streets and installed water infrastructure in an effort to claim their rights to access to the city and its infrastructures, and to assert their aspirations to a modern, urban life. Without formal municipal services, life in Marikana could be characterised as “raw life,” to use Fiona Ross’s term — an incomplete life in the midst of poverty and suffering. Drawing on Ross’s notion of “respectable life,” I argue that DIY formalisation in Marikana ensured what I call “buoyant life”: the DIY formalisation, and specifically the water infrastructure, enabled not only physical life but also political life (in the form of claims to citizenship and respectability) to be buoyed up against the curtailing tides of state abandonment.