Overview

In the 1980s South Africa's urban townships exploded into insurrection led by youth and residents' organisations that collectively became known as the civics movement. Ironically the movement has been unable to adapt to the role of a voluntary association in the liberal polity it helped create, and has great difficulty defining any alternative role. This volume charts the rise and fall of the movement in the transition to and consolidation of democracy in South Africa.

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Author:   G. Adler ,  J. Steinberg ,  Glenn Adler ,  Jonny Steinberg
Publisher:   Pan Macmillan South Africa
Imprint:   Pan Macmillan
Edition:   2000 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.495kg
ISBN:  

9780312231026

ISBN 10:   0312231024
Pages:   253
Publication Date:   03 April 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

List of Maps Foreword Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: From Comrades to Citizens: The South African Civics Movement and the Transition to Democracy; J.Steinberg & G.Adler Survival and Resistance: Township Organisations and Nonviolent Direct Action; C.Bundy The Development of Strategic Thought in South Africa's Civic Movements, 1977-90; J.Seekings Hegemony, Democracy and Civil Society: Political Participation in Kwazakele Township, 1980-90; J.Cherry Fenced in by Ideas of Modernity: Land Struggles and Civic Activism in Namaqualand, 1980-93; S.Robins Civic Organisation in Alexandra in the 1990s: An Ethnographic Approach; J.Lucas A Place for Civics in a Liberal Democratic Polity? The Fate of Local Institutions of Resistance after Apartheid; J.Steinberg After Apartheid: Civic Organisations in the 'New' South Africa; J.Seekings Bibliography Index

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COLIN BUNDY Vice-Chancellor, University of the Witwatersrand JANET CHERRY Teacher, Department of Sociology, University of Port Elizabeth JUSTINE LUCAS Ph.D. student studying Ecotourism in South African, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies STEVEN ROBINS Teacher, Anthropology Department, University of Western Cape JEREMY SEEKINS Teacher, Sociology Department, University of Cape Town

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