
'Citizens in the middle class': Dr Charlotte Lemanski
What's driving the housing crisis for South Afric…
ROCKING OUR PRIORS · Dr Alice Evans
January 20, 201710m 35s
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Show Notes
What's driving the housing crisis for South African middle income households?
Why aren't these middling households mobilising for housing reform?
Yet we do see collective action in the case of 'fees must fall', for higher education. What explains this discrepancy?
Charlotte, why do you think 'middle class' isn't appropriate to the South African context?
Paper here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001671851530083X
Photo credits: Jonny Miller, http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/06/apartheids-urban-legacy-in-striking-aerial-photographs-south-africa-cities-architecture-racism/487808/