Urban Politics After Apartheid presents an understanding of
gendered urban politics in South Africa as an interactive process.
Based on long-term fieldwork in the former townships 20 years after
the end of apartheid, it provides an in-depth analysis of how
activists and local politicians engage with each other. Sandrine
Gukelberger contributes to the ongoing debate on urban governance
by adding a new historicising perspective as an entry point into
the urban governance arena, based upon the political trajectories
of ward councillors and activists. Integrating urban governance
studies with new perspectives on policy and social movements
provides insight on the everyday events in which people engender,
negotiate, and contest concepts, policies, and institutions that
have been introduced under the catch-all banner of democracy. By
conceptualising these events as encounters at different knowledge
interfaces, the book develops a locus for an anthropology of
policy, highlighting everyday negotiations in urban politics. Urban
Politics After Apartheid dissects the social life of policies such
as Desmond Tutu's rainbow nation metaphor beyond national
symbolism, and academic and public discourse that largely portray
participation in South Africa to be weak, local politicians to be
absent, and social movements to be toothless tigers. Proving the
inaccuracy of these portrayals, this book will be of interest to
students and scholars of South African politics, urban studies,
political anthropology and political sociology.
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