TY  - CHAP
AB  - In this chapter we argue that South Africa's premier city, Johannesburg, has undergone a massive reconfiguration of its social geography since the demise of formal apartheid. Using census data and geographic information systems (GIS), we present evidence that this spatial transformation has been driven by a process of residential deracialization but one that has taken place within narrow class bands. Indeed, we show that change has been marked by a new process of middle-class formation that has specifically taken the form of what we call middle-class enclavization. We show moreover that this process of enclavization is marked by internal fragmentation with the increasing spatial compartmentalization of different fractions of the middle class. These findings in turn support broader arguments in the literature that emphasize the strategic practices, including the centrality of residential location, through which upper middle-class privilege is preserved.
VL  - 21
SN  - 978-0-85724-326-3, 978-0-85724-325-6/0198-8719
DO  - 10.1108/S0198-8719(2010)0000021012
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-8719(2010)0000021012
AU  - Kracker Selzer Amy
AU  - Heller Patrick
ED  - Julian Go
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - The spatial dynamics of middle-class formation in postapartheid South Africa: enclavization and fragmentation in Johannesburg
T2  - Political Power and Social Theory
T3  - Political Power and Social Theory
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 171
EP  - 208
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -