Rural Resistance in South Africa
Title | Rural Resistance in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Thembela Kepe |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2011-11-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 900421495X |
Much has been written about anti-apartheid resistance by the marginalized people of South Africa, as well as its violent repression by security forces in urban areas (e.g. Sharpeville massacre; Soweto riots). Very little attention has been paid to resistance by rural people. The Mpondo Revolts, which began in the 1950s and reached a climax in 1960, rank among the most significant rural resistances in South Africa. Here Mpondo villagers emphatically rejected the introduction of Bantu Authorities and unpopular rural land use planning that meant loss of land. The volume presents a fresh understanding of the uprising; as well as its meaning and significance then and now, particularly relating to land, rural governance, party politics and the agency of the marginalized.
Rural Resistance in South Africa
Title | Rural Resistance in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Thembela Kepe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Apartheid |
ISBN | 9781920516543 |
Rural Resistance in South Africa
Title | Rural Resistance in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Thembela Kepe |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2011-10-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004214461 |
Drawing on scholarship from multiple disciplines, this volume presents a fresh understanding of the Mpondo uprising in South Africa; focusing on its meanings and significance in relation to land, rural governance, politics and the agency of the marginalized.
Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa
Title | Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | William Beinart |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 568 |
Release | 2010-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1868149439 |
An examination of post-apartheid politics This volume explores some of the key features of popular politics and resistance before and after 1994. It looks at continuities and changes in the forms of struggle and ideologies involved, as well as the significance of post-apartheid grassroots politics. Is this a new form of politics or does it stand as a direct descendent of the insurrectionary impulses of the late apartheid era? Posing questions about continuity and change before and after 1994 raises key issues concerning the nature of power and poverty in the country. Contributors suggest that expressions of popular politics are deeply set within South African political culture and still have the capacity to influence political outcomes. The introduction by William Beinart links the papers together, places them in context of recent literature on popular politics and 'history from below' and summarises their main findings, supporting the argument that popular politics outside of the party system remain significant in South Africa and help influence national politics. The roots of this collection lie in post-graduate student research conducted at the University of Oxford in the early twenty-first century.
The Forgotten People
Title | The Forgotten People PDF eBook |
Author | Saleem Badat |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004246339 |
The apartheid state employed many weapons against its opponents: imprisonment, banning, detention, assassination - and banishment. In a practice reminiscent of Tsarist and Soviet Russia, a large number of 'enemies of the state' were banished to remote areas, far from their homes, communities and followers. Here their existence became 'a slow torture of the soul', a kind of social death. This is the first study of an important but hitherto neglected group of opponents of apartheid, set in a global, historical and comparative perspective. It looks at the reasons why people were banished, their lives in banishment and the efforts of a remarkable group of activists, led by Helen Joseph, to assist them. Book jacket.
Rural Resistance in the 1940s and 1950s
Title | Rural Resistance in the 1940s and 1950s PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Chaskalson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Government, Resistance to |
ISBN |
Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession
Title | Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession PDF eBook |
Author | Dip Kapoor |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2017-08-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 178360946X |
Under the guise of 'development', a globalizing capitalism has continued to cause poverty through dispossession and the exploitation of labour across the Global South. This process has been met with varied forms of rural resistance by local movements of displaced farm workers, small and landless (women) peasants, and indigenous peoples in South and East Asia, the Pacific and Africa, who are resisting the forced appropriation of their land, the exploitation of labour and the destruction of their ecosystems and ways of life. In this provocative new collection, engaged scholars and activists combine grounded case studies with both Marxist and anti-colonial analyses, suggesting that the developmental project is a continuation of the colonial project. The authors then demonstrate the ways in which these local struggles have attempted to resist colonization and dispossession in the rural belt, thereby contributing essential movement-relevant knowledge on these experiences in the Global South. A vital addition to the fields of critical development studies, political-sociology, agrarian studies and the anthropology of resistance, this book addresses academics and analysts who have either minimized or overlooked local resistances to colonial capital, especially in the Asia-Pacific and Africa regions.