City of broken dreams: myth-making, nationalism and the university in an African motor city
OUTPUT TYPE: Monograph (Book)
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2019
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.J.Bank
KEYWORDS: EAST LONDON, INDUSTRIALIZATION, MOTOR INDUSTRY, UNEMPLOYMENT, UNIVERSITIES
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/city-of-broken-dreams
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10777
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/13618
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/13618
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2019
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.J.Bank
KEYWORDS: EAST LONDON, INDUSTRIALIZATION, MOTOR INDUSTRY, UNEMPLOYMENT, UNIVERSITIES
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/city-of-broken-dreams
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10777
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/13618
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/13618
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Abstract
City of Broken Dreams brings the global debate about the urban university to bear on the realities of South African rust-belt cities through a detailed case study of the Eastern Cape motor city of East London, a site of significant industrial job losses over the past two decades. The cultural power of the car and its associations with the endless possibilities of modernity lie at the heart of the refusal of many rust-belt motor cities to seek alternative development paths that could move them away from racially inscribed, automotive capitalism and cultures. This is no less true in East London than it is in the motor cities of Flint and Detroit in the US. Since the end of the Second World War, universities have become increasingly urbanised, resulting in widespread concerns about the autonomy of universities as places of critical thinking and learning. Simultaneously, there is increased debate about the role universities can play in building urban economies, creating jobs and reshaping the politics and identities of cities. In City of Broken Deams, author Leslie Bank embeds the reader's understanding of the university within a history of industrialisation, placing-making and city building.-
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