The Politics of the Near: On the Edges of Protest in South Africa

Author:   Jérôme Tournadre ,  Andrew Brown
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
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Pages:   320
Publication Date:   17 May 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jérôme Tournadre ,  Andrew Brown
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
ISBN:  

9780823299966


ISBN 10:   0823299961
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   17 May 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction | 1 1 A South African City | 27 2 The Sense of Community | 46 Interlude 1: Football, Community, and Politics | 71 3 “We Are the People Who Stay with Them in the Township” | 75 4 “My Blood Is Still Here, in UPM” | 102 Interlude 2: What Really Matters | 121 5 “It Is Moral to Rebel” | 129 6 “We Do Not Discuss Politics” | 148 7 Leaders in the Communities | 174 Interlude 3: Breakups | 194 8 Lost in Transition? | 199 9 The Community, the Movement, and the “Outside World” | 228 10 “Yes, We Do the Same Thing” | 246 Epilogue | 263 Acknowledgments | 269 Notes | 271 Works Cited | 287 Index | 307

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"The Politics of the Near is a rich ethnographic study about people, places, and events set within the poverty, politics, and poor people's movements of postapartheid South Africa. The book's deep ethnographic focus, anchored within a broad social movements literature, makes it useful to graduate students and other scholars seeking to understand how people survive and fight against conditions of poverty.-- ""H-Net Reviews"" Tournadre's compelling development of a 'politics of the near' contributes significantly to debates in political sociology, anthropology, and political science. The book's close attention to activists' quotidian lives and their embeddedness in dense social networks offers a compelling argument that politics is located not only in institutions and organizations but also in the everyday worlds that shape people's dispositions, actions, and histories.---Fiona C. Ross, University of Cape Town"


Tournadre's compelling development of a 'politics of the near' contributes significantly to debates in political sociology, anthropology, and political science. The book's close attention to activists' quotidian lives and their embeddedness in dense social networks offers a compelling argument that politics is located not only in institutions and organizations but also in the everyday worlds that shape people's dispositions, actions, and histories. ---Fiona C. Ross, University of Cape Town,


Author Information

Jérôme Tournadre is a research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is the author of A Turbulent South Africa: Post-Apartheid Social Protest.

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