Thesis
Between “success” and “failure”: the making of a special economic zone in South Africa
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This thesis is about a development intervention in the period before ‘success’ is achieved or ‘failure’ conclusively announced. Based on an ethnographic study of the Atlantis Special Economic Zone (SEZ) on the periphery of Cape Town, South Africa, it explores how a scheme that claims to generate market participation, but has yet to do so, continues to be represented as plausible.
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Established under apartheid as an industrial zone intended to create employment for the ‘Coloured’ populati...
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+ Bolt, M
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- SSD
- Department:
- International Development
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-0739-8018
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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English
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- Deposit date:
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2026-07-01
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- Copyright holder:
- Julia Hampton
- Copyright date:
- 2026
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