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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Trevor NgwanePublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Weight: 0.251kg ISBN: 9780745342009ISBN 10: 0745342000 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 20 February 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface 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 shacksReviews'Compelling ... beats powerfully with an urgency for radical social change and democracy from below, fuelled and informed by the hard, daily struggles for housing, land, dignity and justice it makes visible' -- Aziz Choudry, editor of 'The University and Social Justice Struggles Across the Globe' (Pluto, 2020) 'A work of great erudition and elegance, it writes shack dwellers and their committees into the history of the working class movements and democratic theory' -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, University of Bayreuth, Germany Author InformationTrevor 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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