Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa
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William Beinart (Author) Julian Brown (Author) Tracy Carson (Author) Marcelle C. Dawson (Author) Tim Gibbs (Author) Rebecca Hodes (Author) Simonne Horwitz (Author) Genevieve Klein (Author) Mandisa Mbali (Author) Kelly Rosenthal (Author)
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This volume explores some of the key features of popular politics and resistance before and after 1994. It explores continuities and changes in the forms of struggle and ideologies involved, as well as the significance of post-apartheid grassroots politics. Is this a new form of politics or does it stand as a direct descendent of the insurrectionary impulses of the late apartheid era? The scale of popular protest in the 2000s does not rival that of the 1970s and 1980s, but posing questions about continuity and change before and after 1994, as some of these papers do, in itself raises key issues concerning the nature of power and poverty in the country. Contributors suggest that expressions of popular politics are deeply set within South African political culture and still have the capacity to influence political outcomes. Some chapters address pre-1994 conflicts and movements, some post-1994 and some straddle the two periods. The introduction by William Beinart links the papers together, places them in context of recent literature on popular politics and `history from below' and summarises their main findings, supporting the argument that popular politics outside of the party system remains significant in South Africa and have helped to influence national politics. The roots of this collection lie in post-graduate student research conducted at the University of Oxford in the early twenty-first century.
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William Beinart is a professor of race relations and director of graduate studies at the African Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford University, England.|| Marcelle Dawson is a lecturer in sociology at the Centre for Sociological Research at the University of Johannesburg.
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- Contributor: William Beinart
- Imprint: Wits University Press
- ISBN13: 9781868145188
- Number of Pages: 380
- Packaged Dimensions: 150x220mm
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Wits University Press
- Release Date: 2010-12-30
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: William Beinart is a professor of race relations and director of graduate studies at the African Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford University, England.|| Marcelle Dawson is a lecturer in sociology at the Centre for Sociological Research at the University of Johannesburg.
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