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While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in
South Africa, most discussion centers on ideal forms of movements,
disregarding the reality and agency of the activists themselves. In
Living Politics, Kerry Ryan Chance radically flips the conversation
by focusing on the actual language and humanity of post-apartheid
activists rather than the external, idealistic commentary of old.
Tracking everyday practices and interactions between poor residents
and state agents in South Africa's shack settlements, Chance
investigates the rise of nationwide protests since the late 1990s.
Based on ethnography in Durban, Cape Town, and Johannesburg, the
book analyzes the criminalization of popular forms of politics that
were foundational to South Africa's celebrated democratic
transition. Chance argues that we can best grasp the increasingly
murky line between "the criminal" and "the political" with a
"politics of living" that casts slum and state in opposition to one
another. Living Politics shows us how legitimate domains of
politics are redefined, how state sovereignty is forcibly enacted,
and how the production of new citizen identities crystallize at the
intersections of race, gender, and class.
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