1st Edition
Rights-based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africa The Right to Joburg
By Marius Pieterse
Copyright 2017
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Johannesburg as a Site for Rights
2. Inhabiting Joburg: Struggles for Housing and Access to the City
3. Struggles over Essential Services
4. Marginal Struggles: Equality, Public Presence and Livelihood
5. Privileged Struggles: Property, Lifestyle, Business and Safety
6. Struggles over Autonomy, Equality and Identity: Sex, Gender and Sexuality
7. The Right to Joburg?
Biography
Marius Pieterse is Professor of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
