Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: Seeking social justice in the post-colonial state
Introduction
Studying the ‘post-colonial’
The democratic and post-colonial state
Participatory democracy and ‘people’s power’
Framing the debates: From political values to the social contract
Understanding political values and perceptions of justice: Narratives and resistance
Conceptualising and surfacing political values
Reading political values in the post-colonial state
What do citizens see as just?
Resistance
The social contract and the post-colonial state
Fracturing social contracts?
Conclusion
Approach, methodology and structure
Approach
Methodology
Structure of the book
Notes
References
Chapter 1: Surfacing political values: Narratives of justice in Cape Town, South Africa
Introduction
Political values and justice
Stories and the politics of storytelling
Storytelling as politics: A methodology
Personal storytelling, values formation and claiming a place
Three broken hearts (A personal story told by soeraya davids)
Collective narratives and collective claims
Gangsters in uniform: A collective narrative by the Delft Safety Group 8
Trauma, values and the boundaries of justice
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 2: Silent citizens and resistant texts: Reading hidden narratives
Introduction
Silent citizens and political values
Silent citizenship through criminalization
Silent citizenship through demobilization
Silent citizenship through universalism
Resistant texts, hidden practices and political values
Resistance through transgressions of dress conventions
Resistance through (Re)naming
Un- and relearning in order to read resistant texts and silent resistances
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 3: A moral economy of citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa?
Introduction
Defining the moral economy
Forging a constitutional moral economy in post-apartheid South Africa
Political promises and the ‘politics of patience’
The moral economy meets the moral consumer
The law meets the moral economy
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 4: Fractured social contracts: The moral economy of protest and poaching in Cape Town, South Africa
Introduction
Expanding the moral economy framework
Protest in the bay
Values formation: Legitimizing notions in the moral economies of protest and poaching
Custom, rights and fish as a social good
Racial exclusion and powerlessness as a legitimizing frame
Public authority and the moral economy
The state
Community-based public authority
Political actors as public authorities
Conclusion
Notes
References
Interviews
Chapter 5: Spectators of protest: Concerns from an online neighbourhood facebook group
A protest over the road
Separated by concrete and history
Online conversations and perceiving protest
Notes
References
Chapter 6: ‘This is our water!’: The politics of locality and the commons in the city of Bulawayo
Introduction
Bulawayo: The dry city of kings
Struggling over water and political autonomy: The protests of 2005–2007
‘Hands off – this is our water!’: Asserting local control of the commons
Awakening residents’ collective power
Water, authority and legitimacy
Claiming water as a human right: The protests of 2013–2015
Local democracy and governing the commons
Prepaid meters and the right to water
Prepaid water meters and economic, social, and environmental implications
Residents taking action 15
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 7: The social contract, the state and Adivasi protests against large-scale mining in India
Introduction
Adivasi and their land: A history of exclusion, exploitation and impoverishment
Taxation during the colonial period
Transfer of Adivasi land to non-Adivasi
Restricted access to forests
Displacement by industrial projects
Two cases of Adivasi protests against large-scale mining
Protests against UAIL
Protests against vedanta mining
The social contract, the state and the marginalized
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 8: Claiming agency by telling a counter-story in court: Adivasis v. ‘encounter’ killings in India
Introduction 1
The petition
Telling stories in court
The legal process
The art of telling a counter-story in court
Affectiveness
By Connecting the petitioners with the qualities of a public-spirited citizen
By connecting the victims with the qualities of a good citizen
Using familiar themes of family, love and grief to create resonance with the Adivasi’s plight
Persuasion
Highlighting factual inaccuracies in the opponent’s response
Juxtaposing facts in a way that creates links to the context
Reiterating common elements in the individual stories
Tone and non-coercion
Transformation
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 9: Including the excluded: Interests and values in the Brazilian public health care system 1
Introduction
Interests, political values and health policy
The building of the SUS, a public universal health system
The permanent challenge of inclusion
Revisiting the challenge of inclusion
Final remarks
Notes
References
Chapter 10: Negotiating foreign policy from below: Voice, participation and protest
Introduction
Value plurality in international development cooperation: Participation and protest in the new development bank
Voice, participation and protest in BRICS summits
Voice, participation, and protest around the New Development Bank
Value plurality regarding IBSA countries’ international development cooperation?
Value formation and the politicisation of development cooperation in IBSA countries
Domestic politics of foreign policy and value formation
Development cooperation/South-South cooperation domestic ‘constituencies’
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index