Civic-Led Banishment in South Africa: Punishment, Authority, and Spatialised Precarity
Civic-Led Banishment in South Africa: Punishment, Authority, and Spatialised Precarity
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10.1111/anti.12771
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2021-11-17
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Super, Gail
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Cooper-Knock, S. J.;Super, Gail
公民主导的流放，从根本上说是一种空间惩罚，在南非和其他国家都是一种未被充分研究的现象。我们将其定义为“一种惩罚性的空间实践，由非国家行为者制定，以应对所谓的犯罪或越轨行为，随着时间的推移，它试图不同程度的社会空间驱逐”。这一定义为惩罚的社会空间分析奠定了框架，并对公共和私人空间中社会空间控制的实践产生了见解。我们强调与流放相关的具体挑战，以及空间、惩罚、公共权力和主权之间的关系。我们展示了围绕驱逐的“谈判”如何权衡两种形式的交叉不稳定性：非正式定居点居民面临的不稳定性和公共当局潜在的不稳定性。最后，我们认为，通过社会空间驱逐的视角来探索各种形式的惩罚，使我们能够深入到关于废除刑罚主义的对话中。
Civic-led banishment, a fundamentally spatial punishment, is an understudied phenomenon in South Africa and beyond. We define it as "a punitive spatial practice, enacted by non-state actors in response to alleged criminality or deviance, which attempts varying degrees of socio-spatial expulsion over time". This definition lays the framework for a socio-spatial analysis of punishment, and yields insights into the exercise of socio-spatial control in public and private space. We emphasise the specific challenges associated with banishment, together with the relationship between space, punishment, public authority, and sovereignty. We demonstrate how "negotiations" around banishment trade off two forms of intersecting precarity: those faced by residents in informal settlements and the potential precarity of public authorities. Finally, we argue that an exploration of all forms of punishment through the lens of socio-spatial expulsion enables us to tap into conversations around penal abolitionism.