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Book Book Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue
Title:Popular politics and resistance movements in South Africa
Editors:Beinart, WilliamISNI
Dawson, Marcelle C.
Year:2010
Pages:368
Language:English
City of publisher:Witwatersrand
Publisher:Witwatersrand University Press
ISBN:1868145182; 9781868145188
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:protest
action groups
civil society
strikes
boycotts
Abstract:Within a decade of the 1994 elections and the coming to power of a democratically elected government, some South Africans were back protesting on the streets. Is the re-emergence of popular protest a new form of politics, or is it a direct descendent of the insurrectionary impulses of the late apartheid era? The chapters in this collective volume discuss some of the key features of popular politics and resistance in South Africa since the 1970s. They explore the continuities and changes in the forms of struggle and ideologies involved, and make an argument for a distinctive tradition, as well as continuing strength, of grassroots mobilization. They also suggest the salience of popular politics in shaping the broader political culture of South Africa. Popular struggles since the 1970s are understood largely as modern (and mostly urban) movements, responding to material concerns such as poor wages, high rents and the lack of services, or as competing for national political power. There are chapters on the Durban strikes of 1973, the Fatti's & Moni's strike and community boycott in Cape Town in 1979, the reciprocal influence between internal popular protest and the banned African National Congress (ANC), the Nelson Mandela campaign, land struggle in Weenen in KwaZulu-Natal, homeland politics in the Transkei, the television magazine 'Siyayinqoba/Beat it!' that addresses HIV/AIDS, the Mandela Museum project in the township of Alexandra in Johannesburg, black nurses' strikes at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the Soweto Civic Association and the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee, and the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF). Contributions are by William Beinart, Julian Brown, Tracy Carson, Marcelle C. Dawson, Tim Gibbs, Rebecca Hodes, Simonne Horwitz, Genevieve Klein, Mandisa Mkbali, Kelly Rosenthal, Chizuko Sato, Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane, Thula Simpson. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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