Rightsbased Litigation Urban Governance And Social Justice In South Africa The Right To Joburg Marius Pieterse by Marius Pieterse 9781138059283, 1138059285 instant download after payment.

Rights- based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africa

considers the overlap between legal and everyday struggles for social and spatial

justice in the particular context of Johannesburg, South Africa. Drawing from

literature across disciplines of law, urban geography and urban planning, as well

as from reported case- law concerning the invocation of constitutional rights in

Johannesburg and other South African cities, the book critically examines

whether, and to what extent, the invocation of legal rights before South African

courts have contributed to the advancement of social justice in the city. It considers

the impact of the legal assertion of different constituent aspects of the socalled

‘right to the city’ on the many people simultaneously performing the right,

the governance structures responsible for enabling and facilitating its enjoyment

and the physical place in which it is performed. Drawing broad conclusions on

the utility of rights- based litigation for the achievement of social change and

spatial justice, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of South

Africa, constitutional law, human rights law, regulatory law, sociology of rights,

studies of law and society, urban studies, urban geography, governance studies

and development studies.