With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid
urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain …

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional
embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality …

A piercing, first-hand analysis of the World Bank, one of the most powerful actors in today's
global economy. Why is the World Bank so successful? How has it gained power even at …

Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to
democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced …

Critical ethnographies and methods of relational comparison provide tools for reconfiguring
area studies to challenge imperial visions of the world; for illuminating power‐laden …

In an urbanizing world, the inequalities of infrastructure are increasingly politicized in ways
that reconstitute the urban political. A key site here is the politicization of human waste. The …

As recently as 1990, few people in the global South received their water from US or
European water firms. But just 10 years later, more than 400 million people did, with that …

Talk left, walk right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global Reforms By Patrick Bond The summary
largely concentrates on chapter one which is entitled: Introduction- Against global apartheid …

There is a major contradiction in contemporary politics: there has been a wave of
democratization that has swept across much of the world, while at the same time …

Analyses the roots of power, patriarchy, ecological destruction and capitalist dynamics, of
anti-apartheid resistance and of on-going movements against inequality and injustice in …