The politics of necessity : community organizing and democracy in South Africa / Elke Zuern.

The end of apartheid in South Africa broke down political barriers, extending to all races the formal rights of citizenship, including the right to participate in free elections and parliamentary democracy. But South Africa remains one of the most economically polarized nations in the world. In The...

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Main Author: Zuern, Elke, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2011.
Series:Critical human rights.
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520 |a The end of apartheid in South Africa broke down political barriers, extending to all races the formal rights of citizenship, including the right to participate in free elections and parliamentary democracy. But South Africa remains one of the most economically polarized nations in the world. In The Politics of Necessity, Elke Zeurn forcefully argues that working toward greater socioeconomic equality-access to food, housing, land, jobs-is crucial to achieving a successful and sustainable democracy. 
520 |a Drawing on interviews with local residents and activists in South Africa's impoverished townships during more than a decade of dramatic political change, Zuern tracks the development of community organizing and reveals the shifting challenges faced by poor citizens. Under apartheid, township residents began organizing to press the government to address the basic material necessities of the poor and expanded their demands to include full civil and political rights. While the movement succeeded in gaining formal political rights democratization led to a new government that instituted neoliberal economic reforms and sought to minimize protest. In discouraging dissent and failing to reduce economic inequality, South Africa's new democracy has continued to disempower the poor. 
520 |a By comparing movements in South Africa to those in other African and Latin American states, this book identifies profound challenges to democratization. Zuern asserts the fundamental indivisibility of all human rights, showing how protest movements that call attention to socioeconomic demands, though often labeled a threat to democracy, offer significant opportunities for modern democracies to evolve into systems of rule that empower all citizens. --Book Jacket. 
505 0 |a List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Community Organizing in South Africa; 2. Material Inequality and Political Rights; 3. Power to the People!; 4. Disciplining Dissent; 5. Contentious Democracy; 6. Substantive Democracy; Notes; References; Index. 
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