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From Revolution to Rights in South Africa - Social Movements, NGOs and Popular Politics After Apartheid (Paperback)
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From Revolution to Rights in South Africa - Social Movements, NGOs and Popular Politics After Apartheid (Paperback)
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The author argues for the continued importance of NGOs, social
movements and other 'civil society' actors in creating new forms of
citizenship and democracy in South Africa. Critics of liberalism in
Europe and North America argue that a stress on 'rights talk' and
identity politics has led to fragmentation, individualisation and
depoliticisation. But are these developments really signs of 'the
end ofpolitics'? In the post-colonial, post-apartheid, neo-liberal
new South Africa poor and marginalised citizens continue to
struggle for land, housing and health care. They must respond to
uncertainty and radical contingencies on a daily basis. This
requires multiple strategies, an engaged, practised citizenship,
one that links the daily struggle to well organised mobilisation
around claiming rights. Robins argues for the continued importance
of NGOs, socialmovements and other 'civil society' actors in
creating new forms of citizenship and democracy. He goes beyond the
sanitised prescriptions of 'good governance' so often touted by
development agencies. Instead he argues for a complex, hybrid and
ambiguous relationship between civil society and the state, where
new negotiations around citizenship emerge. Steven L. Robins is
Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Stellenbosch
and editorof Limits to Liberation after Apartheid (James Currey).
Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho,
Swaziland): University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (PB)
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