Making Freedom: apartheid, squatter politics, and the struggle for home
Making Freedom: apartheid, squatter politics, and the struggle for home
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创造自由：种族隔离、占屋政治和家园斗争
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2016
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M. Graham
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这本由安妮-玛丽亚·马库鲁（Anne-Maria Makhulu）撰写的引人入胜、发人深省的书《创造自由》（Making Freedom）探讨了开普敦的非正式定居点，以及黑人棚户区居民的生活和经历。对于任何访问过开普敦的人来说，它仍然是一个严重隔离的城市，远远超过南非其他城市地区，其居民生活在截然不同的平行世界中。在种族隔离制度下，黑人移民被视为非法移民，并受到城市白色和有色人种居民工作保留的阻碍，迫使抵达者蹲在城市边缘的非正式定居点，如十字路口。今天城市的空间布局仍然保留着种族排斥的特征，住房、交通、便利设施和工作分配不均;在许多方面，这些分歧自1994年以来只会加深。然而，当代南非的主流学术叙事仍然牢牢扎根于反种族隔离斗争以及民主的政治和经济进步，这往往忽视了日常经验的现实。因此，本书的重点是研究种族隔离期间和之后的开普敦的非正式定居点，以绘制这两个时代的连续性和不连续性，并探讨其居民的代理，行动主义和生存技巧。《创造自由》为我们对南非社会的思考提供了一个重要的新视角，它认为我们必须承认，
This fascinating and thought-provoking book by Anne-Maria Makhulu, Making Freedom, explores the informal settlements of Cape Town, and the lives and experiences of its black squatter residents. For anyone who has visited Cape Town, it remains a deeply segregated city, far more so than other South African urban areas, with its residents living in distinct parallel worlds. Under apartheid, the migrant black population were deemed illegal by influx controls and impeded by job reservation for the city’s white and coloured residents, forcing arrivals to squat on the margins of the city in informal settlements such as Crossroads. The spatial layout of the city today retains its exclusionary racial character, with housing, transport, amenities, and jobs unequally distributed; in many respects these divides have only deepened since 1994. However, the mainstream academic narrative of contemporary South Africa remains firmly rooted in the anti-apartheid struggle, and the political and economic progress of democracy, which often neglects the reality of the everyday experience. The focus of this book therefore is to examine Cape Town’s informal settlements during and after apartheid in order to map the continuities and discontinuities of these two eras, and explore the agency, activism and survival techniques of its residents. Making Freedom provides an important new insight into our thinking about South African society, which argues that we must acknowledge