Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Author "Piper, Laurence"
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Introduction: The Crucial Role of Mediators in Relations between States and Citizens
Piper, Laurence; von Lieres, Bettina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)This book sets out to answer a deceptively simple question: how do citizens and state engage in the global south? The answer is not simple; it is indeed complex and multifaceted, but we argue that much of the time this ... -
The limits of participatory democracy and the rise of the informal politics of mediated representation in South Africa
Piper, Laurence; von Lieres, Bettina (Taylor & Francis, 2016)In general, South Africans view the formal participatory institutions of their state as ineffective mechanisms for the realization of their demands. Conversely, the reach of formalized civil society is limited in terms ... -
Mediation and the contradictions of representing the urban poor in South Africa: The case of SANCO leaders in Imizamo Yethu in Cape Town, South Africa.
Piper, Laurence; Bénit-Gbaffou, Claire (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2014)The formal system of local governance in South Africa has the ‘ward’ as its lowest and smallest electoral level — a spatial unit consisting of between 5,000 and 15,000 voters. The ward is equivalent to the ‘constituency’ ... -
Nationalism without a nation: The rise and fall of Zulu nationalism in South Africa's transition to democracy, 1975-99
Piper, Laurence (WILEY, 2003)During South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy the most virulent opposition to change came from Zulu nationalism. Post‐apartheid, however, Zulu nationalism has largely waned. This is because Zulu nationalism ... -
Not waiting for Jackie O: lessons for public participation advocacy in South Africa
Piper, Laurence (Unisa Press, 2011)This article explores the significance of an important event, namely, the Pioneers of Participation workshop held in November 2009 in Cape Town, for public participation advocacy in South Africa. By tracing the shifting ... -
Party politics, the poor and the city: Reflections from the South African case
Piper, Laurence; Bénit-Gbaffou, Claire (Elsevier, 2012)Local democracy and ‘spaces’ of citizenship and participation are at the core of much contemporary research focusing on cities (Barnett and Low, 2004). This is the case both for researchers interested in issues of urban ... -
Pervasive, but not politicised: Everyday violence, local rule and party popularity in a Cape Town township
Piper, Laurence; Wheeler, Joanna (Institute for Security Studies (ISS), 2016)Through examining violence in the township of Imizamo Yethu in Cape Town, we show that leadership in this community is not based on violence, despite its pervasiveness in the settlement. Further, rule by local leaders and ... -
Popular mobilisation, party dominance and participatory governance in South Africa
Piper, Laurence; Nadvi, Lubna (Zed Books, 2010)This chapter seeks to explore the character of popular mobilization in South Africa, mostly at the local level. This is done through exploring the interaction of two independent processes. The first concerns the ... -
Postmodernism and the reclaiming of tradition
Piper, Laurence (Berghahn Books, 1998)‘The history of the Zulu people is the history of myself’.1 In Africa, as elsewhere, the notion of tradition is bound up with the discourses of ethnicity and nationalism. Typically invoking pre-colonial identities as ... -
Postmodernism and the reclaiming of tradition
Piper, Laurence (Berghahn books, 1998)The history of the Zulu people is the history of myself'.1 In Africa, as elsewhere, the notion of tradition is bound up with the discourses of ethnicity and nationalism. Typically invoking pre-colonial identi- ties ... -
Power in action: Democracy, citizenship and social justice by Steven Friedman
Piper, Laurence (2019)Steven Friedman has long been one of South Africa’s premier public intellectuals, making invaluable and thoughtful contributions on the political issues of the day. In Power in Action, he zooms out from everyday issues ... -
Reconsidering the origins of protest in South Africa: some lessons from Cape Town and Pietermaritzburg
Nleya, Ndodana; Tapscott, Chris; Thompson, Lisa; Piper, Laurence; Esau, Michelle (Unisa Press, 2011)Protest politics in South Africa has a long history and has been deployed differentially in different historical moments. Whereas protests formed an important vehicle during the fight against apartheid, their rebirth and ... -
Representing Hamilton
Piper, Laurence (Taylor & Francis group, 2017)In his most important book to date, Freedom is Power: Liberty Through Political Representation (2014b), Lawrence Hamilton offers what he describes as a realistic theory of freedom for modern conditions, located in the ... -
Resisting informal settlement upgrading in Cape Town: The battle between developmental and informal governance
Piper, Laurence (Academia, 2019)The paper explores the peculiar politics of popular resistance to the upgrading of an informal settlement in Imizamo Yethu, Cape Town, following a major fire in 2017. The paper traces the politics around the response to ... -
Response to Prathama Banerjee's sovereignty and ascendancy: south Asian reflections
Piper, Laurence (Academia, 2018)In this fantastic, wide-ranging but closely argued paper Prathama Banerjee makes the case that the concept of sovereignty is not a universal concept, but rather that it has a particular, substantive meaning developed in ... -
Rethinking multiculturalism: Cultural diversity and political theory
Piper, Laurence (SAGE, 2001)Bhikhu Parekh’s voice has always been a distinctive one in the growing chorus of political theorists who talk about the challenge of cultural diversity. His perspective is not easy to classify. He criticizes liberal, ... -
Return to the organic: Onions, artichokes and 'the debate' on the nation and modernity
Piper, Laurence (Berghahn Books, 2004)There exist in intellectual history periods where, following intense deliberation on a question, something like a consensus emerges. Typically the consensus amounts to a refinement of the competing views on the question ... -
The tale of two publics: Media, political representation and citizenship in Hout Bay,
Piper, Laurence; Anciano, Fiona.; von Lieres, Bettina (HSRC Press, 2017)This chapter makes the case that access to the spaces of public debate in post-apartheid South Africa is about the challenge of political representation as much as it is about the challenge of access to communication ... -
Tenderpreneur (also tenderpreneurship and tenderpreneurism)
Piper, Laurence; Charman, Andrew (UCL Press, 2018)‘Tenderpreneur’ is a South African colloquialism for a businessperson who uses political contacts to secure government procurement contracts (called ‘tenders’) often as part of reciprocal exchange of favours or benefits. ... -
Too dependent to participate: ward committees and local democratisation in South Africa
Piper, Laurence; Deacon, Roger (Routledge, 2009)Will participatory local government structures help deepen democracy in South Africa? That is the proclaimed purpose of the ward committee system, the centre- piece of post-apartheid local government reform, intended to ...