Practising Empowerment in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-7603-6 (ISBN)
Through in-depth, longitudinal fieldwork, this book considers how different ethics interact and draws attention to the positive changes and continuing development challenges faced in South Africa. Situating practice at its heart, it brings a novel, everyday and micro-scale dimension to understandings of empowerment in the post-apartheid South African wine industry. It develops a critical analysis of the interplay between practice, as scaled and inherently spatial, and discourse to conceptualise how 'big' concepts such as empowerment are articulated, materialised and experienced at the ground level. Through this, it gives voices to the marginalised who experience 'empowerment', setting these within the context of their relations with the other stakeholders who shape this engagement. This book contributes to broader critical social science debates around ethical development and questions of power and empowerment in development interventions. This is critical to reducing the disconnection between policy aims and realities within development and empowerment initiatives, as well as enabling (ethical) commodities to be strategic in retaining their appeal throughout their networks.
Agatha Herman is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University, UK and holds a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2014-17). Her research interests focus on questions of ethics, justice and resilience within food production systems, particularly analysing their impact on the everyday spaces, practices and livelihoods of producers.
1. Introduction: conceptualising power, practice and empowerment through South Africa 2. The South African Wine Industry: conflict and continuity 3. Local Practices of Empowerment in South Africa’s Wine Industry: difference and dilemmas 4. Practicing Empowerment as Development in South African Fairtrade 5. Strategic Practices: interactive relations and the role of the market in ethical trade 6. Whose Empowerment? Materiality and the Marginalised in the South African Wine Industry 7. Conclusions: practising empowerment and empowering practices in South Africa 8. References
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.08.2017 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Critical Food Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 6 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and white; 33 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4724-7603-4 / 1472476034 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4724-7603-6 / 9781472476036 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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