Sumich, Jason (2023) Building Walls to Tame Time: Enclaves and the Enduring Power of Failure. Economy and Society, 52 (1). pp. 137-157. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2022.2102743
Sumich, Jason (2023) Building Walls to Tame Time: Enclaves and the Enduring Power of Failure. Economy and Society, 52 (1). pp. 137-157. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2022.2102743
Sumich, Jason (2023) Building Walls to Tame Time: Enclaves and the Enduring Power of Failure. Economy and Society, 52 (1). pp. 137-157. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2022.2102743
Abstract
In this paper, I explore the ways in which the construction of enclaves became central to utopian attempts of social engineering and how their legacies shape contemporary society despite the failures of these projects. By focusing on the role of enclaving, in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, I demonstrate how it derives its power as a walled remnant of the resuscitation of past utopian goals and simultaneously, by being presented as a solution to current festering urban problems, often themselves the result of previous attempts of enclaving. Rather than solely acting as an outgrowth of the most exclusionary aspects of contemporary capitalism, I argue that enclaving is a highly malleable strategy of enacting power despite its enduring failure.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | enclave; impossibility; temporality; utopia; Maputo |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2022 14:15 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 21:22 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/33075 |
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