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

IF 1.1 4区社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Journal of Asian and African Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-16 DOI:10.1177/00219096241235296

G. Ruiters, Kevin Jacobs

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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.

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'Hai, Man！. . .. 我们没有民主"！南非的交通危机与工人阶级去公民化：开普敦卡耶利沙

负担得起的、安全的公共交通是有效的公民权、自由和工作的基础。公民期望民主国家给予关怀和互惠。通过对卡耶利沙（Khayelitsha）的居民和社区领袖进行深入访谈，我们探讨了日益恶化的公共和私人交通（主要是小巴出租车）如何不仅大大延长了工作日，而且还摧毁了政治希望--这一过程被称为去公民化（de-citizenship）。我们展示了流动性如何从根本上植根于阶级公民身份的根本分化空间--一种新的阶级隔离--反过来反映了开普敦及其阶级斗争的结构性矛盾。

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Journal of Asian and African Studies AREA STUDIES-

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