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Rights- based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africaconsiders the overlap between legal and everyday struggles for social and spatialjustice in the particular context of Johannesburg, South Africa. Drawing fromliterature across disciplines of law, urban geography and urban planning, as wellas from reported case- law concerning the invocation of constitutional rights inJohannesburg and other South African cities, the book critically examineswhether, and to what extent, the invocation of legal rights before South Africancourts have contributed to the advancement of social justice in the city. It considersthe impact of the legal assertion of different constituent aspects of the socalled‘right to the city’ on the many people simultaneously performing the right,the governance structures responsible for enabling and facilitating its enjoymentand the physical place in which it is performed. Drawing broad conclusions onthe utility of rights- based litigation for the achievement of social change andspatial justice, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of SouthAfrica, constitutional law, human rights law, regulatory law, sociology of rights,studies

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Author

Marius Pieterse

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351671989

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Science, Political Science