Urban Politics After Apartheid

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4724-8895-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Contemporary African Politics

Urban Politics After Apartheid presents an understanding of gendered urban politics in South Africa as an interactive process. Based on long-term fieldwork in the former townships 20 years after the end of apartheid, it provides an in-depth analysis of how activists and local politicians engage with each other.

Sandrine Gukelberger contributes to the ongoing debate on urban governance by adding a new historicising perspective as an entry point into the urban governance arena, based upon the political trajectories of ward councillors and activists. Integrating urban governance studies with new perspectives on policy and social movements provides insight on the everyday events in which people engender, negotiate, and contest concepts, policies, and institutions that have been introduced under the catch-all banner of democracy. By conceptualising these events as encounters at different knowledge interfaces, the book develops a locus for an anthropology of policy, highlighting everyday negotiations in urban politics.

Urban Politics After Apartheid dissects the social life of policies such as Desmond Tutu’s rainbow nation metaphor beyond national symbolism, and academic and public discourse that largely portray participation in South Africa to be weak, local politicians to be absent, and social movements to be toothless tigers. Proving the inaccuracy of these portrayals, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of South African politics, urban studies, political anthropology and political sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gukelberger, Sandrine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations

Glossary of terms

- Introducing Urban Politics after Apartheid

- From a Violent Past to Democratic Futures

- Old Racism in New Guises

- Urban governance and Parallel Spaces

- Institutionalising Activism at the Interface with Government

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Urban Experiences in Politics and Activism

Über Autor(innen)

Sandrine Gukelberger is a research fellow at the Faculty of Social Science at Ruhr-University Bochum. Since 2005 she has been working at Bielefeld University as a political anthropologist and has designed and taught undergraduate and graduate classes in social anthropology and sociology since 2010. She is interested in urban politics and the methodological challenge of combining a global perspective with the ethnographic endeavour.