Plessing Popular Politics, Participation and the Elite Gaze in South Africa

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-7489-3756-2
Verlag: Nomos
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, Band 26, 211 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm

Reihe: Entwicklungstheorie und Entwicklungspolitik

This book challenges assumptions prevalent among development experts that participatory forums and mechanisms enhance democracy in a highly unequal setting. These assumptions ignore the pernicious ways in which social and economic status and political standing differentiate citizenship. The book develops a counter-narrative from below, starting from the manifold ways in which people engage with the state in a South African township and the structures of power they encounter. By doing so, it reveals that political participation, as imagined in the Global North, is a privilege not only of individuals but also of societies, and (re-)discovers a profound epistemological gap between elite assumptions and the perspectives of the governed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Plessing, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie