Rights-based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africa: The Right to Joburg

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface and acknowledgements 1 Johannesburg as a site for rights Introduction: on rights and place The right to the city Struggling over the right to the city in Johannesburg: introducing the stage and the main institutional actors Aims and focus of this book 2 Inhabiting Johannesburg: housing rights struggles Introduction Housing practices of Johannesburg’s urban poor Urban habitation struggles in the courts Reflections 3 Struggles over essential services Introduction Access to, contestation over and delivery of essential services in Johannesburg Service delivery and citizenship disputes in the courts Reflections 4 Marginal struggles: equality, public presence and livelihood Introduction Marginality, insurgence and the right to the city Using legal rights and litigation to resist urban marginality Reflections 5 Privileged struggles: property, lifestyle, business and safety Introduction Spatial practices of Johannesburg’s middle- and upper-classes Middle- and upper-class rights and responsibilities in the courts Reflections 6 Struggles over autonomy, equality and identity: sex, gender and sexuality Introduction Rights, sex, sexuality and the city Sex work in Johannesburg LGBTI rights struggles in Johannesburg Gender, sex and the city: female sexuality in Johannesburg Reflections 7 The right to Joburg? Introduction Rights, space, dialogue and contestation Judicial vindication of rights to the city The impact of rights- based litigation in Johannesburg Urban constitutional citizenship Conclusion Index