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SUMMARY:The Liberal-democratic Order and the Paradox of Peaking: Interpret
 ing the Quasi-Public Gated Enclaves of Britain and South Africa - P. Stuar
 t Robinson\, Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Political Sci
 ence and Community Planning\, University of Tromsø.
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:One of the paradoxes of the post-apartheid state is the appear
 ance and proliferation of apartheid-resembling divisions on a local level:
  a combination of relatively ad hoc street enclosures and minutely planned
  gated residential developments.  These illuminate continuing tensions wit
 hin South African society but also a broader\, even global trend.  Such pr
 ivately organised enclaves represent a now almost globally ubiquitous mode
 l for facilitating practical forms of non-state association and disassocia
 tion.  In these terms\, they exercise increasing influence over the negoti
 ation of collective identity and difference at the most fundamental level.
 \n\nP. Stuart Robinson\, PhD\nAssociate Professor\nDepartment of Sociology
 \, Political Science and Community Planning\nUniversity of Tromsø.\n\n\nP
 . Stuart Robinson\, author of The Politics of International Crisis Escalat
 ion\, received his B.A. from the University of Leicester in 1981\, his M.A
 . from the University of Calgary in 1984 and his PhD from the University o
 f British Columbia in 1991.  \n\nHe is currently working on a monograph co
 mparing walled towns in late medieval England to contemporary gated housin
 g developments.  Robinson is also a participant in an international resear
 ch collaboration based at the University of Tromsø’s Centre for Peace S
 tudies on post-conflict peace-building.\n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ in r
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