The politics of the near : on the edges of protest in South Africa / Jérôme Tournadre and Andrew Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tournadre, Jérôme, author.

Brown, Andrew (Literary translator), author.

Series:

Thinking from Elsewhere

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements--South Africa.

Protest movements.

Social movements--South Africa.

Social movements.

South Africa--Social conditions--1994-.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

1. A South African City

2. The Sense of Community

Interlude 1: Football, Community, and Politics

3. "We Are the People Who Stay with Them in the Township"

4. "My Blood Is Still Here, in UPM"

Interlude 2: What Really Matters

5. "It Is Moral to Rebel"

6. "We Do Not Discuss Politics"

7. Leaders in the Communities

Interlude 3: Breakups

8. Lost in Transition?

9. The Community, the Movement, and the "Outside World"

10. "Yes, We Do the Same Thing"

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-9997-X