Zachary Levenson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. His work, which combines political and urban sociology, has appeared in Qualitative Sociology, Urban Studies, the Journal of Agrarian Change, and International Sociology, among other venues.

• List of Illustrations


• List of Abbreviations


• Acknowledgments


• Preface


• 1 · Two Occupations, One Eviction


• 2 · Dynamics of Delivery and Dispossession


• 3 · Civil Society I: Kapteinsklip and the Politics of Seriality


• 4 · Civil Society II: Siqalo and the Politics of Fusion


• 5 · Political Society I: Kapteinsklip and the Politics of Factionalism


• 6 · Political Society II: Siqalo and the Politics of Committees


• 7 · Four Theses on the Integral State


• Appendix · Methodological Reflections


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

In Dispossession as Delivery, Zachary Levenson explains why post-Apartheid South Africa continues to evict land occupations. Levenson shows that the government does this in the name of preserving the order they imagine is necessary to deliver housing to its citizens. Based upon a decade of participant observation in two land occupations in Cape Town, this book provides a novel, relational understanding about group formation and how collective actions interact with the state.