Grassroots Literacy and the Written Record : : A Textual History of Asbestos Activism in South Africa / / John Trimbur.

This book examines how asbestos activists living in remote rural villages in South Africa activated metropolitan resources of representation at the grassroots level in a quest for justice and restitution for the catastrophic effects on their lives caused by the asbestos industry.  It follows the Asb...

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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Abbreviations --   |t Preface --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. On the Periphery: Life and Literacy in the Kuruman District --   |t 2. Asbestos Mining and the Written Record: A Brief History --   |t 3. The Emergence of Asbestos Activism: From the 'Period of Non-awareness' to the National Asbestos Summit of 1998 --   |t 4. Grassroots Activism and the Mobility of Documents: The Formation of the Asbestos Interest Group --   |t 5. Insurgent Lawfare and the Gencor Case: From Asbestos-related Disease Suff erers to Plaintiff s --   |t 6. 'The Lawyer Stole the Money': The Political Economy of Certifi able Asbestos-related Disease --   |t Conclusion: Grassroots Activism, Popular Participation and Contextual Spaces --   |t References --   |t Index 
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520 |a This book examines how asbestos activists living in remote rural villages in South Africa activated metropolitan resources of representation at the grassroots level in a quest for justice and restitution for the catastrophic effects on their lives caused by the asbestos industry.  It follows the Asbestos Interest Group (AIG) over a fifteen-year period through its involvement in grassroots research, in legal cases and in the compensation systems for asbestos-related disease.  It examines how the AIG became grassroots technicians of translocal paperwork, moving texts back and forth between periphery and center, pushing documents through the textual mazeways of the courts, medical institutions, the compensation system and various government agencies.   The book addresses rhetorical mobility and the extent to which, given the AIG's position on the periphery, it has been able to enter the voices and interests of villagers into formerly inaccessible forums of deliberation and decision-making. 
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650 0 |a Asbestos industry  |x Health aspects  |z South Africa  |z Kuruman. 
650 0 |a Asbestos miners  |x Political activity  |z South Africa  |z Kuruman. 
650 0 |a Asbestos  |x Law and legislation  |z South Africa  |z Kuruman. 
650 0 |a Evidence, Documentary  |z South Africa  |z Kuruman. 
650 0 |a Literacy  |x Political aspects  |z South Africa  |z Kuruman. 
650 0 |a Sociolinguistics  |z South Africa  |z Kuruman. 
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653 |a asbestos. 
653 |a asbestosis. 
653 |a environmentalism of the poor. 
653 |a grassroots activism. 
653 |a grassroots literacy. 
653 |a paperwork studies. 
653 |a sociolinguistics of globalization. 
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