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List of contributors
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction: seeing like a City
Claire Bénit-Gbaffou
Part I: Seeing the local state through City officials’ practices
2 ‘Welcome to Alcatraz’: a reflection on three years in a City bureaucracy
Phil Harrison
3 Activists in the State: City officials working behind the scenes for change in post-apartheid Johannesburg
Claire Bénit-Gbaffou
4 Bureaucratic activism for inclusionary development in the City of Johannesburg
Margot Rubin
5 Entering the state as a community activist: the Operation Khanyisa Movement in Johannesburg City Council
Nicolette Pingo and Claire Bénit-Gbaffou
Part II: Seeing the local state from its margins
6 Acting like the state? Leaders’ participation in street trade management in Gauteng municipalities
Mamokete Modiba
7 Crafting a xenophobic bureaucratic order after May 2008 pogroms in Cape Town Rodolphe Demeestère
8 The politics of formulating policy on housing evictions in post-apartheid Johannesburg
Neil Klug
Part III: Seeing the local state through its policy instruments
9 Identifying learners in Johannesburg schools: how state rationalities converge to construct institutional xenophobia Jeanne Bouyat
10 Seeing and unseeing: housing, poverty and privilege on Johannesburg’s Corridors of Freedom
Sarah Charlton
11 Deceptive lenses: officials’ and activists’ visions of water issues in eThekwini
Mary Galvin
12 Lost in translation: The elusive equity objective in Johannesburg water policy
Darlington Mushongera
13 ‘Doing things right’ or ‘doing the right thing’? Limits to evaluative thinking in Johannesburg
Laila Smith
Part IV: International perspectives on the art of progressive city government
14 Is there a 'left art' of City government? A view from post-apartheid South Africa)
Claire Bénit-Gbaffou
15 Preserving the progressive City: a North American perspective
Pierre Clavel
16 Porous bureaucracies, land and urban inclusion: a perspective from Indian Cities Varun Patil and Solomon Benjamin
17 Blurred boundaries and institutional activism: reflections from Brazil
Rebecca Naera Abers
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