TY  - GEN
T1  - Living politics in South Africa's urban shacklands
A1  - Chance, Kerry Ryan
LA  - English
PP  - Chicago ; London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1035556681
AB  - While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in South Africa, most discussion centers on ideal forms of movements, disregarding the reality and agency of the activists themselves. In Living Politics, Kerry Ryan Chance radically flips the conversation by focusing on the actual language and humanity of post-apartheid activists rather than the external, idealistic commentary of old. Tracking everyday practices and interactions between poor residents and state agents in South Africa's shack settlements, Chance investigates the rise of nationwide protests since the late 1990s. Based on ethnography in Durban, Cape Town, and Johannesburg, the book analyzes the criminalization of popular forms of politics that were foundational to South Africa's celebrated democratic transition. Chance argues that we can best grasp the increasingly murky line between "the criminal" and "the political" with a "politics of living" that casts slum and state in opposition to one another. Living Politics shows us how legitimate domains of politics are redefined, how state sovereignty is forcibly enacted, and how the production of new citizen identities crystallize at the intersections of race, gender, and class
CN  - HV4162.A5 C43 2018eb
SN  - 9780226519838
SN  - 022651983X
SN  - 9780226519524
SN  - 022651952X
SN  - 9780226519661
SN  - 022651966X
KW  - Abahlali BaseMjondolo (Organization)
KW  - Urban poor : Political activity : South Africa.
KW  - Squatters : Political activity : South Africa.
KW  - Political activists : South Africa.
KW  - Environmental degradation : Political aspects : South Africa.
KW  - Squatter settlements : South Africa.
KW  - Community organization : South Africa.
KW  - South Africa : Politics and government : 1994-
KW  - Pauvres en milieu urbain : Activité politique : Afrique du Sud.
KW  - Activistes : Afrique du Sud.
KW  - Environnement : Dégradation : Aspect politique : Afrique du Sud.
KW  - Bidonvilles : Afrique du Sud.
KW  - Organisation communautaire : Afrique du Sud.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Process : Political Advocacy.
KW  - Community organization
KW  - Environmental degradation : Political aspects
KW  - Political activists
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Squatter settlements
KW  - Squatters : Political activity
KW  - Urban poor : Political activity
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Armut
KW  - Stadt
KW  - Südafrika
KW  - Since 1994
KW  - South Africa.
KW  - cities.
KW  - citizenship.
KW  - environment.
KW  - gender.
KW  - governance.
KW  - politics.
KW  - poverty.
KW  - race.
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -