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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
Class, race and perceptions of distributive justice in post-apartheid Cape Town
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59. Class in contemporary Africa
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| Paper ID | 655 |
| Author(s) |
Seekings, Jeremy
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No paper submitted
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| Abstract | Cape Town is characterised by both racial-cultural diversity and deep economic inequalities. This paper explores how race and class shape perceptions of distributive justice, i.e. popular perceptions of the shape of inequality in practice, of the justice of redistribution, and of the desert of different categories of poor and non-poor people. The paper uses data from a 2005 survey as well as qualitative interviews on popular understandings of race, class and distributive justice. |
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