Durban’s port-petrochemical complex as a site of economic and environmental violence
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2015-01
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A proposed massive expansion of a petrochemical complex in South Durban’s port area has come under criticism for both economic and environmental violence. The recent history of cities becoming hyperactive export platforms is not merely a function of globalisation. Public policy is a factor, and especially the intellectual project of urban neoliberalism; the strategy was explicit in South Africa’s transition from apartheid to export-oriented neoliberalism. There is nowhere better than Durban, South Africa, to enquire into the port-related urban economic and also environmental implications of the current more frenetic, crisis-riddled stage of world capitalism and mal-development.
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PETROCHEMICAL EXPANSION, PORTS, ECONOMIC REFORM, LAND USE, GRASSROOTS GROUPS, LAND RIGHTS, SOUTH AFRICA, DURBAN, URBAN VIOLENCE, APARTHEID, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, COASTAL WATERS, EXPLOITATION, NEOLIBERALISM, SHIPPING, SEA TANSPORT, SOUTH OF SAHARA