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OverviewWhat role should universities have in revitalizing rust-belt motor cities left to decay by economic and political transformation? In City of Broken Dreams, author Leslie J Bank addresses this question through a detailed case study of East London, a city in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Here, as in American motor cities like Detroit and Flint, the car’s cultural power and association with the endless possibilities of modernity lie at the heart of the refusal to seek alternative development paths leading away from racially inscribed automotive capitalism. Rooting the university in a history of industrialisation, placemaking and city-building, this book examines contemporary debates about the role that urban universities should have in building economies, creating jobs and reshaping the politics and identities of their communities. In South Africa as in many other nations, institutions of higher education represent potentially powerful cultural and socioeconomic agents, but the 2015 #FeesMustFall student protests against rising tuition costs highlighted the limits of their power. Firmly grounded in the particulars of East London, this thoughtful study illuminates questions common to rust-belt cities and universities around the world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Leslie J. BankPublisher: Michigan State University Press Imprint: Michigan State University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9781611863451ISBN 10: 1611863457 Pages: 358 Publication Date: 28 February 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsThis truly remarkable book provides an outstanding and highly innovative call for how rethinking the idea of the university can lead to a regeneration of East London, South Africa's own rust-belt city. With the settler-nationalist dream of the motor city fading, the book reflects on the contradictory nature of postapartheid urbanism, and how this relates to changing cultural configurations and the recent rise of an African middle class. Written by one of South Africa's most engaged anthropologists, this book will attract widespread attention globally as well as locally. --ROGER SOUTHALL, Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand "There is a thread of exceptionalism that runs through South African scholarship. In this book, author Leslie J Bank explores the value of the less common approach of comparison. He assesses the fortunes of two rust-belt cities, Detroit and East London, both historically dependent on the motor industry. He then juxtaposes higher education and manufacture as city development strategies, claiming that the charisma and agency of universities might hold the key to rust-belt revival. An unusual book, beautifully written and keenly observed, I recommend it to those who think about the possible even against a backdrop of broken dreams.-- ""Robert Morrell, Research Professor in the Vice-Chancellor's Office, University of Cape Town"" (1/1/2019 12:00:00 AM) This truly remarkable book provides an outstanding and highly innovative call for how re-thinking the idea of the university can lead to a regeneration of East London, South Africa's own ""rust-belt city."" With the settler-nationalist dream of the ""motor city"" fading, the book reflects on the contradictory nature of post-apartheid urbanism, and how this relates to changing cultural configurations and the recent rise of an African middle class. Written by one of South Africa's most engaged anthropologists, this book will attract widespread attention globally as well as locally.-- ""Roger Southall, Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand"" (1/1/2019 12:00:00 AM) ""This truly remarkable book provides an outstanding and highly innovative call for how rethinking the idea of the university can lead to a regeneration of East London, South Africa's own ""rust-belt city."" With the settler-nationalist dream of the ""motor city"" fading, the book reflects on the contradictory nature of postapartheid urbanism, and how this relates to changing cultural configurations and the recent rise of an African middle class. Written by one of South Africa's most engaged anthropologists, this book will attract widespread attention globally as well as locally."" --ROGER SOUTHALL, Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand" This truly remarkable book provides an outstanding and highly innovative call for how rethinking the idea of the university can lead to a regeneration of East London, South Africa's own rust-belt city. With the settler-nationalist dream of the motor city fading, the book reflects on the contradictory nature of postapartheid urbanism, and how this relates to changing cultural configurations and the recent rise of an African middle class. Written by one of South Africa's most engaged anthropologists, this book will attract widespread attention globally as well as locally. --ROGER SOUTHALL, Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand Author InformationLeslie J. Bank is a Deputy Executive Director at the Human Sciences Research Council in Cape Town and an Adjunct Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Fort Hare. His other books include Home Spaces, Street Styles: Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City, Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and Her Interpreters (coeditor), Imonti Modern: Picturing the Life and Times of a South African Location (coauthor) and Anchored in Place: Rethinking the University and Development in South Africa (coeditor). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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