The Politics of the Near : : On the Edges of Protest in South Africa /

The Politics of the Near : : On the Edges of Protest in South Africa / / Jérôme Tournadre.

The Politics of the Near offers a novel approach to social unrest in post-apartheid South Africa. Keeping the noise of demonstrations, barricades, and clashes with the police at a distance, this ethnography of a poor people’s movement traces individual commitments and the mainsprings of mobilization...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
VerfasserIn:
Tournadre, Jérôme,
MitwirkendeR:
Brown, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Thinking from Elsewhere
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 26 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1 A South African City
  • 2 The Sense of Community
  • Interlude 1: Football, Community, and Politics
  • 3 “We Are the People Who Stay with Them in the Township”
  • 4 “My Blood Is Still Here, in UPM”
  • Interlude 2: What Really Matters
  • 5 “It Is Moral to Rebel”
  • 6 “We Do Not Discuss Politics”
  • 7 Leaders in the Communities
  • Interlude 3: Breakups
  • 8 Lost in Transition?
  • 9 The Community, the Movement, and the “Outside World”
  • 10 “Yes, We Do the Same Thing”
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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