‘Hai, Man! . . . We Don’t Have Democracy’! The Transport Crisis and Working-Class De-Citizenship in South Africa: Khayelitsha, Cape Town-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

‘Hai, Man! . . . We Don’t Have Democracy’! The Transport Crisis and Working-Class De-Citizenship in South Africa: Khayelitsha, Cape Town

Published:2024-03-16 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0021-9096
Container-title:Journal of Asian and African Studies
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Asian and African Studies

Author:

Ruiters Greg¹^ORCID,Jacobs Kevin¹

Affiliation:

1. School of Government, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Abstract

Affordable and safe public transport underpins effective citizenship and freedom as well as work. Citizens expect the democratic state to be caring and reciprocal. Using in-depth interviews with residents and community leaders in Khayelitsha, we look at how worsening public and private transport – mainly mini-bus taxis – not only significantly extends the working day but also destroys political hopes – a process called de-citizenship. We show how mobilities are fundamentally rooted in radically bifurcated spaces of classed citizenship – a new class apartheid – in turn reflecting the structural contradictions of Cape Town and its class struggles.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Link

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00219096241235296

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