Amakomiti - Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements

A fascinating ethnography of the democratic organisation of shack settlements in South Africa

List of contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Photos

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Series Preface

Preface

1. Introduction: Disrupting Private Land Ownership?

2. 'The People Cannot Live in the Air': History of the Squatter Movement in South Africa

3. Amakomiti are Everywhere

4. Fatal Embrace by the ANC in Duncan Village

5. Iinkundla of Nkaneng: The Rural in the Urban Dialectic

6. Thembelihle Settlement: A Vision of Hope

7. Amakomiti: A Vision of Alternatives

Postscript: Covid-19 and the Shacks

Appendix 1: List of Case Study Interviews

Appendix 2: List of Research Tour Interviews and Places Visited

Notes

Index

About the author

Trevor Ngwane is a scholar activist who spent twenty years as a full-time organizer in South African trade unions, community organizations and social movements before and after the defeat of apartheid. He later obtained his PhD in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg where he now teaches and conducts research.

Summary

A fascinating ethnography of the democratic organisation of shack settlements in South Africa

Product details

• Authors: Trevor Ngwane
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780745342009
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4200-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Wildcat
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Poverty & unemployment, Republic of South Africa, Political structures: democracy, Sociology & anthropology, African History, Urban communities, Sociology and anthropology, Poverty and precarity, For higher / tertiary / university education, Political activism / Political engagement