Cape Town after Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City

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Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the nation look In Cape Town, is hardening inequality under conditions of neoliberal globalization actually reproducing the repressive governance of the apartheid era By exploring issues of urban security and development, Tony Roshan Samara brings to light the features of urban apartheid that increasingly mark not only Cape Town but also the global cities of our daycities as diverse as Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, and Beijing.

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"Cape Town after Apartheid is a major contribution to the field of urban studies and criminal justice. It provides a framework for understanding gangs, violence, and neoliberal crime policies, emphasizing how security policies are rooted both in neoliberalism and apartheid-era policy and how they serve to strengthen gangs and fail to stem violence." John Hagedorn, author of A World of Gangs

"Samaras book masterfully connects the dots between local segregation in South Africa and what he calls the transnational network of neoliberal urban governance. Samaras brilliant treatment of crime, terrorism, and gang violence also reminds us of the profound social degradation that the next struggle for genuine emancipation must confront." Patrick Bond, University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society

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Tony Roshan Samara is assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at George Mason University.