Youth, Crime and Urban Renewal in the Western Cape

Samara, Tony Roshan

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“…Rising surveillance and security changes the "physical and symbolic landscape of the city" (Benton-Short 2007 424) and has, in Cape Town, led to a de facto perpetuation of previous apartheid social and spatial divisions (cf. Lemanski 2004;Samara 2005). These developments are indicative of power relations within political discourse (Benton-Short 2007 424) that, in this particular situation, are dominated by a neo-liberal post-apartheid orthodoxy that excludes the poor from the city and seeks to hide the inequalities of modernity in the very spaces that simultaneously created and are creations of this moment.…”

Section: Long Street-a Rose-tinted Window On the Citymentioning

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Performing the Primitive in the Postcolony: Nyoni’s Kraal in Cape Town

Hammett

Jayawardane

2009

Urban Forum

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The production of particular spaces for tourist consumption of the "exotic" other involves the performance of particular conceptualizations of people and places that recreates theatrical versions of the primitive. Through analysis of one such space-Nyoni's Kraal in Cape Town-we contend that both hosts and visitors are complicit in the construction of these spaces and imaginaries. To this end, practices of social and spatial policing as well as performativity and representations of cultural constructs of an "authentic Africa" are deployed in the projection of a specific form of constructed, "benign" multiculturalism. We contend that such practices reproduce a mythical idyll of Africa for consumption that recreates-rather than questions-colonial power structures, and therefore remain imbued with the inequitable and uncertain outcomes of modernity.Keywords Urban tourism . Primitivism . Exoticism . Multiculturalism . Postcolonialism . Cape Town Patrick Conner, in Exotic Worlds-European Fantasies, a review of a collective of museum exhibits that took place in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1988, correlates the European desire to re-investigate exotica to the then relatively new field of postcolonial criticism. Connor considers these exotica as representative objects about "exotic" spaces and people created by and for Europeans, and as emblematic Urban Forum (

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Section: Long Street-a Rose-tinted Window On the Citymentioning

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Performing the Primitive in the Postcolony: Nyoni’s Kraal in Cape Town

Hammett

Jayawardane

2009

Urban Forum

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“…Many of these areas were popular wealthy districts with mini CBDs such as Claremont, Seapoint and Gardens. In the first phase of CID renewal, youth made greater use of these neighbourhoods; however, as more CIDs have been set up during the second phase of renewal, generally in the wealthy suburban commercial centres (Samara, 2005), street youth are being displaced to other locations. What is important here is that rather than having a presence in Cape Town's business and commercial centres, youth are finding themselves increasingly pushed into less wealthy, and therefore less prominent, areas on the outskirts of Greater Cape Town, and back into the Cape Flats (see Figure 1).…”

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“…In fact, the former has often been associated with the increasing polarisation and inequality (Samara, 2005(Samara, , 2010.…”

Section: Conceptualising Mobility and The City In Street Youth's Livesmentioning

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“…The impact of the initial phase of implementation (2000-03) on street youth was a series of harsh tactics resulting in their systematic and forced removal from the city as they were regularly picked up in random city round-ups and reportedly beaten (Samara, 2005). Youth were pushed out of the city centre and into the commercial centres of the southern suburbs, positioned as security threats and obstacles to renewal (see Figure 1).…”

Section: Conceptualising Mobility and The City In Street Youth's Livesmentioning

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“…Since the early 1990s, Cape Town has embarked on processes of spatial governance that have pushed the city to become increasingly integrated into the global economy following normalisation of relations in the post-apartheid era (Lemanski, 2007(Lemanski, , 2006(Lemanski, , 2004Miraftab, 2007;Robinson, 2002;Samara, 2005;Wilkinson 2000). However, Cape Town's journey is historically grounded as apartheid policies have left a legacy of social and spatial inequalities.…”

Section: Conceptualising Mobility and The City In Street Youth's Livesmentioning

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New Street Geographies: The Impact of Urban Governance on the Mobilities of Cape Town’s Street Youth

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2013

Urban Studies

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Street youth have been part of South Africa's cities since the 1980s, maintaining a visible and mobile presence. Contemporary adaptations to urban governance strategies in Cape Town have resulted in management practices that are creating challenges for street youth's lives. This paper explores these challenges which have emerged through strategies to clean up the city and are aimed at reducing youth's visible presence on the streets. Through an examination of street youth's lives, this paper conceptualises four ways in which their mobilities have changed, dramatically affecting their everyday practices. The paper develops theoretical understandings of street youth's lives by identifying 'new' street geographies. This moves away from current conceptualisations of street children/youth as having a visible presence on the streets and rather expresses street life as hidden and marginalised, pushed into less wealthy parts of the urban landscape. This has significant implications for addressing street children/youth's needs in policy contexts.

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