Episode description

Ben Bradlow is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. We dive deep into an article from his dissertation project called: Weapons of the Strong: Elite Resistance and the Neo-Apartheid City.

This episode dives into:
• His larger book project that compares Johannesburg and São Paulo.
• Summary and key takeaways from the article and his dissertation project.
• What is meant by “Weapons of the Strong”.
• Why Johannesburg was chosen for this enquiry.
• How private property developers and neighborhood associations demonstrate tactics of elite resistance.
• Strategies used by “The Strong” to undermine the transformative capacities of the local state: “ring-fencing” and “venue-shopping.”
• Potential solutions

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