Abstract
Gated developments are not only found in urban areas, but have also increasingly become a part of the rural locale in South Africa. While rural gated developments offer features of security, community and exclusivity in an idyllic rural setting, their proliferation can be linked to a wider process of post-productivist change in the rural locale. Counterurbanisation, the creation of a consumptionist countryside and the extraction of amenity value from the rural landscape are facets of post-productivism. This study explores the spread of rural gated developments in the Western Cape. The degree of amenity and leisure activities, second-home ownership and features of land use change allied to rural gated developments point to a post-productive rurality that is underway. The spread of rural gated developments could have a profound effect on the way that social, physical and economic relations are produced and reproduced in the rural locale.
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