Contemporary Research on South African Shack Settlements & Cities

• Shack Tenure in Durban by Catherine Cross, 1994
• Delivery from Below Resistance from Above: Electricity and the Politics of Struggle for People's Needs in Thembisa by Franco Barchiesi, 1998
• Integrating the City UNESCO interview with John Abbot, 2000
• Durban: Towards a City Without Citizens by Antoine Bouillon, 2000
• The Impact of the Transition from Informal Housing to Low-Income Housing Projects in South Africa by Warren Smit, 2000
• Housing for the Urban Poor in Cape Town: a postapartheid dream or nightmare?, Eric Bahre, 2001
• A Legacy of Control? The Capital Subsidy for Housing, and Informal Settlement Intervention in South Africa, by Marie Huchzermeyer, 2003
• Policy Aspects for Informal Settlements by Marie Huchzermeyer, 2003
• 'Creative Destruction': Early Modernist Planning in the South Durban Industrial Zone, South Africa by Dianne Scott, 2003
• A Legacy of Control: The Capital Subsidy for Housing, and Informal Settlement Intervention in South Africa by Marie Huchzermeyer, 2003
• Informal Settlement Practice in South Africa’s Metropolitan Cities, Study into the Support of Informal Settlements For the Department of Housing, Pretoria, August 2004
• 'Middle Class Neighbourhoods or African Kraals?' The impact of informal settlements on white identity in post-apartheid South Africa by Richard Ballard, 2004
• Study Into the Support of Informal Settlements Study Commissioned by the Department of Housing and undertaken by the University of Witwatersrand School of Architecture and Planning Together with Independent Experts, 2004
• The Suffering Body of the City by Frederic Le Marcis, 2004
• Reaching the poor: An analysis of the influences on the evolution of South Africa's housing policy by Sarah Charlton & Caroline Kihato, 2005
• Bunkers for the Psyche: How Gates Communities Have Allowed the Privatisation of Apartheid in Democratic South Africa by Richard Ballard, 2005
• The Struggle for In Situ Upgrading of Informal Settlements - Case Studies from Gauteng by Marie Huchzermeyer, 2006
• Informal Settlements as Spaces of Health Inequality: The changing economic and spatial roots of the AIDS pandemic from apartheid to neoliberalism by Mark Hunter, 2006
• Working the Socio-Natural Relations of the Urban Waterscape in South Africa by Alex Loftus, 2007
• Urban Land Markets: How the Poor Access, Hold and Trade Land by Urban LandMark, 2007
• Settlement Informality: The importance of understanding change, formality and land and the informal economy by Marie Huchzermyer, 2008
• Housing Struggles, Land Occupations and Eviction Processes: Negotiating lived experience in Zille Raine Heights, Cape Town, by Jessica Thorn, 2008
• Social Justice and the Right to the City, Martin Murry, 2008
• Disposable People at the Peri-Urban Fringey, Martin Murry, 2008
• The Reverse Side of the Medal: About the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the Beautification of the N2 in Cape Town, Caroline Newton, 2009
• Fire and Ice: Unnatural disasters and the urban poor in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg, Martin Murry, 2009
• A Progressive Policy Without Progressive Politics: Lessons from the failure to implement 'Breaking New Ground' by Richard Pithouse, 2009
• eMatinini - Place of Tin The Provision of Public Housing in South Africa: The Impact and Effect of Transit Camps on Residents and its Place in the Provision of Housing, by Lenny Cohen, 2009

Contemporary Research on Shack Settlements & Shack Dwellers' Struggles Elsewhere

• The Myth of Marginality by Janice Perlman, 1976 (Brazil)
• Un-civil Society: The politics of the 'informal people' by Asef Bayat, 1997 (Iran)
• From`Dangerous Classes' to `Quiet Rebels': Politics of the Urban Subaltern in the Global South by Asef Bayat, 2000 (Iran)
• Towards a Dictatorship Over the Poor: Notes on the penalization of poverty in Brazil by Loïc Wacquant, 2003
• The Myth of Marginality Revisited: The Case of Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, 1969-2003 by Janice Perlman, 2005
• Constructing the 'Right to the City' in Brazil by Edésio Fernandes, 2007
• State of the World's Cities 2006/7, United Nations
• Myth of the Abuja 'Master Plan', COHRE, 2008
• Cities for All: Proposals and Experiences towards the Right to the City, Ana Sugranyes and Charlotte Mathivet, 2010

Mike Davis' Planet of Slums and Responses

• Mike Davis, 'Planet of Slums' [paper], New Left Review, 2004
• Slavoj Žižek, 'The Free World...of Slums' In These Times, 2004
• Mike Davis. 'Planet of Slums' [book], 2006
• Richard Pithouse, 'Thinking Resistance in the Shanty Town', Mute Magazine 40, 2006
• Vyjaynnathi Rao, 'Slum as Theory: The South/Asian city and globalization' International Journal of Urban & Regional Research, 2006
• Jan Breman, 'Slumlands', New Left Review 40, 2006
• Tom Angotti, 'Apocalyptic anti-urbanism: Mike Davis and his planet of slums', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 30.4 December 2006 961–7
• David Cunningham, 'Slumming it: Mike Davis' Grand Narrative of Urban Revolution', Radical Philosophy 142 March-April 2007.
• Jeremy Harding, 'It Migrates to Them', London Review of Books, Vol. 29 No. 5, 8 March 2007.
• Alan Gilbert, 'The Return of the Slums: Does Language Matter?', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2007
• Tom Meyer, Review, 'Planet of Slums', 2007
• Leo Zeilig and Claire Ceruti, 'Slums, resistance and the African working class', International Socialism: A quarterly journal of socialist theory, 2007
• Richard Pithouse, Review, 'Planet of Slums', Journal of Asian & African Studies, 2008