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From Comrades to Citizens

The South African Civics Movement and the Transition to Democracy

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Glenn Adler

    1. Sociology of Work Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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  2. Jonny Steinberg

    1. Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: From Comrades to Citizens

    • Glenn Adler, Jonny Steinberg
    Pages 1-25

  3. Survival and Resistance: Township Organizations and Non-violent Direct Action in Twentieth Century South Africa

    • Colin Bundy
    Pages 26-51

  4. The Development of Strategic Thought in South Africa’s Civic Movements, 1977–1990

    • Jeremy Seekings
    Pages 52-85

  5. Hegemony, Democracy and Civil Society: Political Participation in Kwazakele Township, 1980–93

    • Janet Cherry
    Pages 86-113

  6. Fenced in by Ideas of Modernity: Land Struggles and Civic Activism in Namaqualand, 1980–1993

    • Steven Robins
    Pages 114-144

  7. Civic Organization in Alexandra in the Early 1990s: An Ethnographic Approach

    • Justine Lucas
    Pages 145-174

  8. A Place for Civics in a Liberal Democratic Polity? The Fate of Local Institutions of Resistance after Apartheid

    • Jonny Steinberg
    Pages 175-204

  9. After Apartheid: Civic Organizations in the ‘New’ South Africa

    • Jeremy Seekings
    Pages 205-224

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 225-253
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In the 1980s South Africa's urban townships exploded into insurrection led by youth and residents' organisations that collectively became known as the civics movement. Ironically the movement has been unable to adapt to the role of a voluntary association in the liberal polity it helped create, and has great difficulty defining any alternative role. This volume charts the rise and fall of the movement in the transition to and consolidation of democracy in South Africa.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sociology of Work Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    Glenn Adler

  • Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Jonny Steinberg

About the editors

COLIN BUNDY Vice-Chancellor, University of the Witwatersrand JANET CHERRY Teacher, Department of Sociology, University of Port Elizabeth JUSTINE LUCAS Ph.D. student studying Ecotourism in South African, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies STEVEN ROBINS Teacher, Anthropology Department, University of Western Cape JEREMY SEEKINS Teacher, Sociology Department, University of Cape Town

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