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Accepted Contribution:
Apartheid Remains: Enclaving practices in South Africa's real estate investments in Africa.
Claudia Gastrow
(University of Johannesburg)
Contribution:
My research explores how investors in Johannesburg, South Africa export practices of economic enclaving to the rest of the African continent through real estate investment. I argue that South African capital is thereby reproducing apartheid style economic practices in the rest of the continent.
Why would you like to speak in this workshop?:
I am at the beginning of my research project on real estate investment and South African finance in Africa. This is a new field for me in as much as my previous research focused more on the political struggles over and experiences of urban redevelopment and less on the question of financial circuits and flows. I am therefore hoping to participate in the workshop in order to gain knowledge from the other participants as well as build stronger relationships with other people working on how financial centres in the "Global South". In particular I am interested in understanding how the kinds of investment practices that these centres engage in might reproduce or depart from the colonial economic patterns in terms of enclaving, extraction, and marginalisation.
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Accepted Contribution:
Claudia Gastrow (University of Johannesburg)
Contribution:
Why would you like to speak in this workshop?:
I am at the beginning of my research project on real estate investment and South African finance in Africa. This is a new field for me in as much as my previous research focused more on the political struggles over and experiences of urban redevelopment and less on the question of financial circuits and flows. I am therefore hoping to participate in the workshop in order to gain knowledge from the other participants as well as build stronger relationships with other people working on how financial centres in the "Global South". In particular I am interested in understanding how the kinds of investment practices that these centres engage in might reproduce or depart from the colonial economic patterns in terms of enclaving, extraction, and marginalisation.
Financial Centres of the Future – What Role for Africa and Latin America?
Session 1 Wednesday 6 July, 2022, -