Ring of fire: socially perceived necessities in informal urban settlements in South Africa
研究了南非非正规城市定居点居民认为哪些物品对可接受生活水平必不可少，并与农村前家园地区比较，发现基础设施相关物品在城市被评价更高，不平等和参照群体可解释态度差异和抗议地点。
This paper explores which items people living in South African informal urban settlements regard as essential for an acceptable standard of living, in the context of the high levels of service delivery protests in urban areas. Comparisons are made with people in rural former homeland areas which are shown to have similar levels of deprivation and service delivery dissatisfaction and yet have few such protests. People in informal urban areas rated infrastructure-related items higher than people in rural former homelands. It is argued that inequality and people's reference groups could help explain these attitudinal discrepancies and the locations of protests.