Projektnummer

0061105

Zusammenfassung

The removal of apartheid era spatial controls in the 1980s coupled with the post-apartheid platinum mining boom have seen many migrants, both local and regional, coalescing in informal settlements around platinum mines in Rustenburg. This research deploys Holston (2008)'s concept of insurgent citizenship, Auyero (2007)'s concept of 'gray zones', Chatterjee (2004)'s concept of 'political society' as well the concept of belonging (Cooper with Brubaker 2005) to examine processes of community formation and how residents of informal settlements around platinum mines in Rustenburg stake clai...