Confounded but Complacent: Accounting for How the State Sees Responses to Its Housing Intervention in Johannesburg
Confounded but Complacent: Accounting for How the State Sees Responses to Its Housing Intervention in Johannesburg
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困惑但自满：解释国家如何看待约翰内斯堡住房干预措施的反应
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10.1080/00220388.2018.1460465
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2018
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S. Charlton
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作者：
S. Charlton
摘要南非政府通过免费房屋所有权来改善穷人生活的意愿受到随后未经授权的房屋使用和改造的影响。尽管一些国家住房从业人员对这些不合规的活动有深入的了解和同情，但国家的主要立场是谴责这些活动，而不分析其驱动因素和意义。这一立场是由国家的选择性使用知识，在住房项目的信心，因为是，并避免令人不安的信号。“改进的意愿”并没有与深刻的“知道的意愿”相匹配，部分原因是在困难情况下采取行动的能力被认为取决于一种形式的“不知道”。
Abstract The South African state’s ‘will to improve’ poor people’s lives through free home-ownership is unsettled by subsequent unauthorised housing usage and adaptions. Despite insight into and empathy for these non-compliant activities amongst some state housing practitioners, the dominant state position is to denounce them without analysing their drivers and significance. This position is enabled by the state’s selective use of knowledge, confidence in the housing project as is, and avoidance of discomforting signals. The ‘will to improve’ is not matched by a deep ‘will to know’, in part because the capacity to act under difficult circumstances is argued to depend on a form of ‘not knowing’.