| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge contemporary South Africa |
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Routledge contemporary South Africa.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Johannesburg as a site for rights -- Introduction: on rights and place -- right to the city -- Struggling over the right to the city in Johannesburg: introducing the stage and the main institutional actors -- Aims and focus of this book -- 2. Inhabiting Johannesburg: housing rights struggles -- Introduction -- Housing practices of Johannesburg's urban poor -- Urban habitation struggles in the courts -- Reflections -- 3. Struggles over essential services -- Introduction -- Access to, contestation over and delivery of essential services in Johannesburg -- Service delivery and citizenship disputes in the courts -- Reflections -- 4. Marginal struggles: equality, public presence and livelihood -- Introduction -- Marginality, insurgence and the right to the city -- Using legal rights and litigation to resist urban marginality -- Reflections -- 5. Privileged struggles: property, lifestyle, business and safety -- Introduction -- Spatial practices of Johannesburg's middle- and upper-classes -- Middle- and upper-class rights and responsibilities in the courts -- Reflections -- 6. Struggles over autonomy, equality and identity: sex, gender and sexuality -- Introduction -- Rights, sex, sexuality and the city -- Sex work in Johannesburg -- LGBTI rights struggles in Johannesburg -- Gender, sex and the city: female sexuality in Johannesburg -- Reflections -- 7. right to Joburg? -- Introduction -- Rights, space, dialogue and contestation -- Judicial vindication of rights to the city -- impact of rights-based litigation in Johannesburg -- Urban constitutional citizenship |
| Summary |
Rights-based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africa considers the overlap between legal and everyday struggles for social and spatial justice in the particular context of Johannesburg, South Africa. Drawing from literature across disciplines of law, urban geography and urban planning, as well as from reported case-law concerning the invocation of constitutional rights in Johannesburg and other South African cities, the book critically examines whether, and to what extent, the invocation of legal rights before South African courts have contributed to the advancement of social justice in the city. It considers the impact of the legal assertion of different constituent aspects of the so-called "right to the city" on the many people simultaneously performing the right, the governance structures responsible for enabling and facilitating its enjoyment and, thirdly, the physical place in which it is performed. Drawing broad conclusions on the utility of rights-based litigation for the achievement of social change and spatial justice, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Africa, constitutional law, human rights law, regulatory law, sociology of rights, studies of law and society, urban studies, urban geography, governance studies, and development studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 27, 2017) |
| Subject |
Human rights -- South Africa
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Constitutional law -- South Africa
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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Constitutional law
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Human rights
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South Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315163710 |
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1315163713 |
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1351671979 |
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9781351671972 |
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