1st Edition
Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective The Politics of Protest in South Africa's Contentious Democracy
List of Figures and Table
Notes on Contributors
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 - Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective
Marcel Paret
Part I: Global Formations
Chapter 2 - Social Movements in the Neoliberal Age
Michael Burawoy
Chapter 3 - South African Social Movements in the Neoliberal Age
Carin Runciman
Part II: Community Formations
Chapter 4 - Postcolonial Politics: Theorizing Protest from Spaces of Exclusion
Marcel Paret
Chapter 5 - South Africa ‘Unrest’ or Rebellion: A Focus on Durban Community Protests
Tom Lodge and Shauna Mottiar
Chapter 6 - Social Movements Beyond Incorporation: The Case of the Housing Assembly in Post-Apartheid Cape Town
Zachary Levenson
Part III: Local State Formations
Chapter 7 - Party Politics and Community Mobilisation in Buffalo City, East London
Tatenda G. Mukwedeya and Patricia Ndhlovu
Chapter 8 - Protests, Party Politics, and Patronage: A View From Zandpsruit Informal Settlement, Johannesburg
Hannah Dawson
Part IV: Labour Formations
Chapter 9 - Changing Forms of Power and Municipal Worker Resistance in Johannesburg
Carmen Ludwig and Edward Webster
Chapter 10 - Organic Intellectuals and Leadership in South Africa’s Contemporary Mineworkers’ Movement
Luke Sinwell
Part V: Left Formations
Chapter 11 - South Africa’s New Left Movements: Challenges and Hopes
Noor Nieftagodien
Index
Biography
Marcel Paret is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah, USA, and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Carin Runciman is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Luke Sinwell is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
