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 of politics'? 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, social movements 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 editor of Limits to Liberation after Apartheid (James Currey).
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From Revolution to Rights in South Africa
Social Movements, NGOs and Popular Politics After Apartheid
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Table of contents
- FRONTCOVER
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- ZAPIRO CARTOONS
- 1 Introduction: From Revolution to Rights
- 2 Activist Mediations of âRightsâ & Indigenous Identity: Land Struggles, NGOs & Indigenous Rights in Namaqualand
- 3 Citizens & âBushmenâ: The â khomani San, NGOs & the Making of a New Social Movement
- 4 âCivil Societyâ & Popular Politics in the Postcolony âDeep Democracyâ & Deep Authoritarianism at the Tip of Africa?
- 5 AIDS, Science & the Making of a Social Movement AIDS Activism & Biomedical Citizenship in South Africa
- 6 Rights Passages from âNear Deathâ to âNew Lifeâ AIDS Activism & New HIV-identities in South Africa
- 7 Sexual Rights & Sexual Cultures: AIDS Activism, Sexual Politics & âNew Masculinitiesâ after Apartheid
- 8 Conclusion: Beyond Rights & the Limits of Liberalism
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- BACKCOVER
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