basic and urgent right to live in a safe environment. For the last four decades, workingclass communities have been organized and defined by their economic lack and housing decline, orchestrated by the local state and private market intervention. These dominant discourses of decline, of so-called ‘problem estates’, have justified the solution, which broadly invovles governance through crime, regeneration and gentrification.This book covers an ambitious range of topics, but this is necessary to recognize the full reach of the local state, a limitless reach which, as the author argues, might well be the undoing of liberal democracy and legitimacy to power and authority.

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书评：玛丽·林德加德，在开普敦幸存的帮派、暴力和种族主义：贫民窟变色龙

生活在安全环境中的基本而紧迫的权利。在过去的四年里，工人阶级社区的组织和定义是由当地政府和私人市场干预精心策划的经济匮乏和住房下降。这些关于衰落的主流话语，即所谓的“问题庄园”，证明了解决方案的合理性，该解决方案广泛涉及通过犯罪、再生和中产阶级化进行治理。本书涵盖了一系列雄心勃勃的主题，但这对于认识到地方国家，一个无限的范围，正如作者所说，很可能是自由民主和权力和权威合法性的瓦解。