Politics/matter: Governing Cape Town’s informal settlements
通过南非非正式定居点的案例，研究计划、实践与物质性之间的相互作用，挑战将治理仅视为国家与非国家行为者关系的倾向，强调物质性作为治理的关键技术。
Through the lens of South Africa’s informal settlements, this paper explores the intersections between plans, practices and materiality. These three arenas are each presented as uniquely agentic, contributing to plural configurations. In doing so, this work questions a prevalent tendency to frame governance/government solely as relationships between state and non-state actors. By reintroducing the agency and power of matter and materiality, not as adjunct or background, but as a critical technology of government and/in place, this work contributes to a growing debate within the (emerging) urban socio-technical systems literature.