The Taming of Land Resistance
| Autor: | Andile Mngxitama |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Civil society
Economic growth media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0507 social and economic geography Context (language use) Redistribution (cultural anthropology) Development Agrarian reform Colonialism 050701 cultural studies Democracy 0506 political science Agrarian society Political economy 050602 political science & public administration Sociology Ideology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Asian and African Studies. 41:39-69 |
| ISSN: | 1745-2538 0021-9096 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0021909606061747 |
| Popis: | The land question is fundamental to understanding the possibilities and limits of change in the South African context. It can legitimately be argued that the measurement of transforming South African society from its colonial and apartheid past to a more democratic dispensation directly correlates with the extent of land redistribution to blacks. Measures to deal with land and agrarian transformation in South Africa have been reluctant and ineffectual, to say the least. This article will trace the historical origins of the weaknesses of both government and civil society interventions. The author argues that the dominant theoretical and ideological forces which took centre stage at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle had no thorough-going understanding of what a liberation would entail for the majority, and were trapped by ‘liberal instrumentalist’ conceptions of power. This article will analyse the National Land Committee (NLC), one of South Africa's key land non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and will pose the question, can NGOs be consistent counter-hegemonic forces to capital and racism? |
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