The Politics of Knowledge: Knowledge Management in Informal Settlement Upgrading in Cape Town

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• 作者：Floortje Jacobs ; David Jordhus-Lier ; Pamela Tsolekile de Wet
• 关键词：Urban governance ; Urban development ; Mega ; projects ; Housing ; Participation ; Knowledge
• 刊名：Urban Forum
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：26
• 期：4
• 页码：425-441
• 全文大小：612 KB
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• 作者单位：Floortje Jacobs (1)
  David Jordhus-Lier (2)
  Pamela Tsolekile de Wet (3)
  
  1. Planning and International Development Studies, Department of Human Geography, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 14, 1018 TV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  2. Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Moltke Moesvei 31, 0851, Oslo, Norway
  3. African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy (ACCEDE), University of the Western Cape, Robert Sobukwe Road, Bellville, 7535, Republic of South Africa
  
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：None Assigned
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1874-6330

文摘

In situ solutions, participatory practices and the inclusion of community knowledge have become key ingredients in urban upgrading policies across the world. Knowledge, however, is not neutral, but value-laden, representing different and conflicting interests. Including community-based knowledge, therefore, is far from straightforward. To understand the politics of urban development interventions, a deeper conceptualisation of the relationship between knowledge and power is required. This article tries to contribute to this conceptualisation through an empirical analysis of informal settlement upgrading. Specifically, it interrogates the role of community knowledge in urban development through a study of two informal settlements in Cape Town. Findings from this qualitative research contradict the notion of a unified community whose ‘community knowledge-can be engaged with. In both settlements, knowledge politics have resulted in tensions within the settlement, creating new interest groups and knowledge alliances, showing the complex interconnectedness of knowledge, power and mobilisation. As knowledge has been built, used, exchanged and contested to upgrade livelihoods, this knowledge has been standing in a mutually constitutive relationship with collective action. Keywords Urban governance Urban development Mega-projects Housing Participation Knowledge