Seminar: Violence, Urbanization and Rationalization in Cape Town's Taxi Industry (1990-2010)

Speaker: Dr Erik Bähre, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University; Discussant: Jan-Bart Gewald. This seminar is based on interviews with taxi entrepreneurs, drivers and members of taxi associations that live and operate in Cape Town. The interviews were held mostly in Khayelitsha, Crossroads and Nyanga. Some of the men and women interviewed were key players in the taxi world and were often intimidating figures who had been imprisoned for assault or murder.

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