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Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective

From the Arab Uprising, to anti-austerity protests in Europe and the US Occupy Movement, to uprisings in Brazil and Turkey, resistance from below is flourishing. Whereas analysts have tended to look North in their analysis of the recent global protest wave, this volume develops a Southern perspective through a deep engagement with the case of South Africa, which has experienced widespread popular resistance for more than a decade. Combining critical theoretical perspectives with extensive qualitative fieldwork and rich case studies, Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective situates South Africas contentious democracy in relation to both the economic insecurity of contemporary global capitalism and the constantly shifting political terrain of post-apartheid nationalism. The analysis integrates worker, community and political party organizing into a broader narrative of resistance, bridging historical divisions among social movement studies, labor studies and political sociology.

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.

The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture

Series editor:
Professor Hank Johnston, San Diego State University,
United States

For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com

Published in conjunction with Mobilization: An International Quarterly, the premier research journal in the field, this series publishes a broad range of research in social movements, protest and contentious politics. This is a growing field of social science research that spans sociology and political science as well as anthropology, geography, communications and social psychology. Enjoying a broad remit, the series welcome works on the following topics: social movement networks; social movements in the global South; social movements, protest and culture; personalist politics, such as living environmentalism, guerrilla gardens, anticonsumerist communities and anarchist-punk collectives; and emergent repertoires of contention.

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Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective

The Politics of Protest in South Africas Contentious Democracy

Edited by Marcel Paret, Carin Runciman
and Luke Sinwell

First published 2017

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ISBN: 978-1-4724-7346-2 (hbk)

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Contents

MARCEL PARET

Part I
Global formations

MICHAEL BURAWOY

CARIN RUNCIMAN

Part II
Community formations

MARCEL PARET

TOM LODGE AND SHAUNA MOTTIAR

ZACHARY LEVENSON

Part III
Local state formations

TATENDA G. MUKWEDEYA AND HLENGIWE NDLOVU

HANNAH DAWSON

Part IV
Labour formations

CARMEN LUDWIG AND EDWARD WEBSTER

LUKE SINWELL

Part V
Left formations

NOOR NIEFTAGODIEN

1. i
2. ii

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Michael Burawoy teaches sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and is an Associate of the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Hannah Dawson is a DPhil candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Research Associate at the South African Chair in Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. She has published in African Affairs and the Journal of Southern African Studies, amongst others. Her current work explores how young people re-work the meanings of work and its relationship to personhood, social relationships and the state in a context of mass unemployment and social inequality.

Zachary Levenson is currently completing his PhD in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, The Post-Apartheid State: The Politics of Housing in South Africa, is an ethnographic analysis of three mass land occupations in the Cape Flats and proposes a framework for explaining why some occupations are targeted for eviction whereas others are ultimately tolerated. He has published in International Sociology, Transformation, Contexts, and elsewhere.

Tom Lodge is Dean of Humanities and teaches peace and development studies at the University of Limerick and is an Honorary Professor at the School of Built Environment and Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the author of several books about South African politics, most recently Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences (Oxford University Press, 2011). At present he is writing a history of the South African Communist Party.

Carmen Ludwig is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science at University of Giessen, Germany. From 2012 to 2014 she joined the Decent Work and Development Initiative cluster at Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP), University of the Witwatersrand as a visiting scholar. The focus of her dissertation was on trade union strategies in organising solidarity in fragmented workforces in the municipal sector in South Africa. Her current research interest is on organising strategies along global value chains.

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