The Politics of the Near

On the Edges of Protest in South Africa

Jérôme Tournadre (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2022
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-9995-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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 in the ordinary social and intimate life of activists, their relatives, and other township residents.

Tournadre’s approach picks up on aspects of activists lives that are often neglected in the study of social movements that help us better understand the dynamics of protest and the attachment of activists to their organization and its cause. What Tournadre calls a “politics of the near” takes shape, through sometimes innocuous actions and beyond the separation between public and domestic spheres.

By mapping the daily life of Black and low-income neighborhoods and the intimate domain where expectations and disappointments surface, The Politics of the Near offers a different perspective on the “rainbow nation”—a perspective more sensitive to the fact that, three decades after the end of apartheid, poverty and race are still as tightly interwoven as ever.

Autor

Jérôme Tournadre is a research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is the author of A Turbulent South Africa: Post-Apartheid Social Protest.

Inhalt

Introduction | 1

1 A South African City | 27

2 The Sense of Community | 46

Interlude 1: Football, Community, and Politics | 71

3 “We Are the People Who Stay with Them in the Township” | 75

4 “My Blood Is Still Here, in UPM” | 102

Interlude 2: What Really Matters | 121

5 “It Is Moral to Rebel” | 129

6 “We Do Not Discuss Politics” | 148

7 Leaders in the Communities | 174

Interlude 3: Breakups | 194

8 Lost in Transition? | 199

9 The Community, the Movement, and the “Outside World” | 228

10 “Yes, We Do the Same Thing” | 246

Epilogue | 263

Acknowledgments | 269

Notes | 271

Works Cited | 287

Index | 307

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.04.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Thinking from Elsewhere
• Übersetzer: Andrew Brown
• Zusatzinfo: 26 b/w illustrations
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-8232-9995-3 / 0823299953
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-9995-9 / 9780823299959
• Zustand: Neuware