Community self-surveys: appropriating a technology of rule
| dc.contributor.author | Watson, Vanessa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-01T12:11:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-01T12:11:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | en |
| dc.description | Book of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, 2010 Space is Luxury, Aalto, July 7-10th | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The rapid growth of urban populations in cities of the global South, gives rise to major conflicts between those attempting to gain a foothold in urban areas and those attempting to govern these places. This can be conceptualising as a ‘conflict of rationalities’ between techno-managerial and marketized systems of government administration, service provision and planning, and increasingly marginalized urban populations surviving largely under conditions of informality. The ‘interface’ between these conflicting rationalities is frequently a site of struggle the outcomes of which can take various forms and can warp technologies of rule and strategies of ‘improvement’ in various ways. The community self-survey ‘movement’ provides one such example of struggle over a technology of rule which can potentially yield important learning outcomes. The paper explores examples of self-enumeration in shack-dwelling populations in Cape Town (South Africa) where this has been used to engage with the local state. | |
| dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-80-01-05782-7 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 573-589 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1501 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All rights reserved | en |
| dc.source | Book of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, 2010 Space is Luxury, Aalto, July 7-10th | en |
| dc.subject | conflicting rationalities | en |
| dc.subject | global south | en |
| dc.subject | informal settlements | en |
| dc.subject | self-enumeration | en |
| dc.title | Community self-surveys: appropriating a technology of rule | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | Published version | en |