Socio-economic rights in South Africa : symbols or substance? / edited by Malcolm Langford [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Langford, Malcolm, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--South Africa.

Human rights.

Civil rights--South Africa.

Civil rights.

Social justice--South Africa.

Social justice.

Civil society--South Africa.

Civil society.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 472 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The embrace of socio-economic rights in South Africa has featured prominently in scholarship on constitution making, legal jurisprudence and social mobilisation. But the development has attracted critics who claim that this turn to rights has not generated social transformation in practice. This book sets out to assess one part of the puzzle and asks what has been the role and impact of socio-economic strategies used by civil society actors. Focusing on a range of socio-economic rights and national trends in law and political economy, the book's authors show how socio-economic rights have influenced the development of civil society discourse and action. The evidence suggests that some strategies have achieved material and political impact but this is conditional on the nature of the claim, degree of mobilisation and alliance building, and underlying constraints.

Contents:

Introduction: Civil society and socio-economic rights / Malcolm Langford

Constitutional jurisprudence : the first and second waves / Stuart Wilson and Jackie Dugard

Socio-economic rights beyond the public-private law divide / Sandra Liebenberg

Post-apartheid social movements and legal mobilisation / Tshepo Madlingozi

Political power : social pacts, human rights, and the development agenda / Adam Habib

Rural land tenure : the potential and limits of rights-based approaches / Ben Cousins and Ruth Hall

Housing rights litigation : Grootboom and beyond / Malcolm Langford

Health rights : politics, places, and the need for "sites for rights" / Peris Jones and Nyasha Chingore

Social security rights : campaigns and courts / Beth Goldblatt and Solange Rosa

Urban basic services : rights, reality, and resistance / Jackie Dugard

Realising environmental rights : civic action, leverage, and litigation / Rachel Wynberg and David Fig

Access to information and socio-economic rights : a theory of change in practice / Kristina Bentley and Richard Calland

Gender and socio-economic rights : the case of gender-based violence and health / Liesl Gerntholtz and Jennifer MacLeod

Migrants and mobilisation around socio-economic rights / Tara Polzer Ngwato and Zaheera Jinnah

Concluding perspectives / Malcolm Langford, Jackie Dugard, Tshepo Madlingozi, and Ben Cousins.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-88887-0

1-107-24136-7

1-107-25095-1

1-107-25012-9

1-139-10859-X

1-107-24763-2

1-107-24846-9

OCLC:

862820435