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Article Dans Une Revue Justice spatiale = Spatial justice Année : 2015

« Our rural sense of place » Rurality and Strategies of Self-Segregation in the Cape Peninsula (South Africa)

Sylvain Guyot

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The local use of so-called rurality as political ways to protect whiteness within the very segregated Cape Peninsula is informing on some racial resistance to post-apartheid change in South Africa. As the country as a whole, the Cape metropolis is marked by high socio-spatial inequalities. Post-apartheid spatial and demographic changes accelerated transformations of local governance. In that particular context, recent claims made by local resident’s associations to protect their rural identity - characterised by countryside place names, farming architecture and European cultural landscape,-appear to be a strategy of withdrawal opposed to urban sprawl and new metropolitan governance. Eventually, the defence of rurality seems to challenge spatial justice in favouring close-knit communities and socio-spatial segregation.
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Sylvain Guyot, Julien Dellier, Caillot Antony. « Our rural sense of place » Rurality and Strategies of Self-Segregation in the Cape Peninsula (South Africa). Justice spatiale = Spatial justice, 2015, Right to the Village, 7, http://www.jssj.org/article/our-rural-sense-of-place-ruralite-et-strategies-de-defense-de-lentre-soi-dans-la-peninsule-du-cap-afrique-du-sud/. ⟨halshs-01718653⟩
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