An urban proletariat with peasant characteristics: land occupations and livestock raising in South Africa
An urban proletariat with peasant characteristics: land occupations and livestock raising in South Africa
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具有农民特征的城市无产阶级：南非的土地占有和畜牧业
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2018
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R. Jacobs
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R. Jacobs
南非的许多学者将城市化与理想的典型无产阶级联系在一起，他们的主要需求围绕着获得土地、住房、雇佣劳动和基本服务。然而，在开普敦，长期的城市居民正在占用土地饲养牲畜——这是典型的农民活动。根据在开普敦土地占用地点进行的为期六年的研究，这篇论文认为，资本主义的发展导致了“具有农民特征的城市无产阶级”的出现，并导致了对城市土地用于农业追求的强烈潜在需求。这些土地占领被重新定义为当前城市斗争浪潮的重要组成部分，被称为“穷人的叛乱”。因此，土地和农业问题获得了一个城市维度，需要成为我们研究和辩论的中心。
ABSTRACT Many scholars in South Africa associate urbanization with an ideal typical proletariat whose primary demands revolve around access to land for housing, wage labor and basic services. However, in Cape Town long-term urban residents are occupying land for raising livestock – a quintessential peasant activity. Drawing on research conducted over the course of six years at land occupation sites in Cape Town, this contribution argues that capitalist development has led to the emergence of an ‘urban proletariat with peasant characteristics’ and to a strong latent demand for urban land for agricultural pursuits. These land occupations are reconceptualized as an important part of the current wave of urban struggles dubbed the ‘rebellion of the poor’. The land and agrarian question is, accordingly, acquiring an urban dimension that needs to be brought to the center of our research and debates.