{"title":"The sprawl of malls: Financialisation, service work and inequality in Johannesburg's urban geography","authors":"Bridget Kenny","doi":"10.1353/trn.2019.0036","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper considers the discussion of the growth of service jobs in arguments around inequality in greater Johannesburg. It provides a conceptual reframing by imbricating service jobs with the expansion of malls and retail property development through Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), an instrument of financial capital investment. It posits a conjunctural analysis bringing together low wage service jobs with transformations in urban geography in relation to property investment and local government practice. Thus, the site of the 'mall' becomes both a place of unequal relations and a conceptual node to think through the articulation of social relations reproducing inequalities of race, gender and class.","PeriodicalId":45045,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":"36 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/trn.2019.0036","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"AREA STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This paper considers the discussion of the growth of service jobs in arguments around inequality in greater Johannesburg. It provides a conceptual reframing by imbricating service jobs with the expansion of malls and retail property development through Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), an instrument of financial capital investment. It posits a conjunctural analysis bringing together low wage service jobs with transformations in urban geography in relation to property investment and local government practice. Thus, the site of the 'mall' becomes both a place of unequal relations and a conceptual node to think through the articulation of social relations reproducing inequalities of race, gender and class.
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