Browsing Research Articles (Political Studies) by Author "Piper, Laurence"
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After the riot? Rancière, Hamilton, and radical politics
Piper, Laurence (Penn State University Press, 2018)In recent years, political forces from the Occupy movement in North America to the #FeesMustFall student protest in South Africa have attempted to disrupt the political order in the name of democratic equality. Inspired ... -
Book review: Building a capable state: service delivery in post-apartheid South Africa
Piper, Laurence (SAGE, 2019)Written by long-standing research practitioners Ian Palmer and Nishendra Moodley, as well as one of South Africa’s leading academic urbanists, Professor Sue Parnell, Building a Capable State tackles the hard question ... -
Community development and engagement with local governance in South Africa
Piper, Laurence; Hemson, David Christopher; Hicks, Janine (Elsevier, 2008)The issue of public participation is receiving increasing attention in South Africa, from both government and civil society sectors. We are witnessing acknowledgement from a wide range of public institutions that insufficient ... -
The decline of ‘militant Zulu nationalism’: IFP politics after 1994
Piper, Laurence; Hampton, Kerri (Taylor & Francis, 1998)Abstract This article argues that since 1994, but especially since 1996, the IFP has progressively moved away from the Zulu nationalist rhetoric and confrontational tactics of the transition period which we term the ... -
Deconstructing ‘the foreign’: The limits of citizenship for explaining price competition in the Spaza sector in South Africa
Piper, Laurence; Yu, Derek (Taylor & Francis, 2016)An important component of the informal economy in South Africa, the Spaza sector is portrayed as dominated by foreign nationals who outcompete South African shopkeepers on price. Indeed, this business competition from ... -
Democracy by accident: the rise of Zuma and the renaissance of the tripartite alliance
Piper, Laurence; Matisonn, Heidi (Routledge, 2009)In party organisational terms, the rise of Jacob Zuma to the Presidency of the African National Congress (ANC) is a victory for the alliance partners and the struggle-era vision of the ANC as a popular front, or the ‘ANC ... -
Democracy for a bargain: The 1999 election in KwaZulu‐Natal
Piper, Laurence (Taylor & Francis, 1999)While the IFP/ANC race for first place in KwaZulu-Natal was the closest of any in the country, the 1999 election was both freer and fairer than ever before, and the result was readily accepted by all parties. In short, ... -
Do I need ethnic culture to be free? A critique of Will Kymlicka's liberal nationalism
Piper, Laurence (AJOL, 2002)As part of a vigorous debate about the politics of multiculturalism, Will Kymlicka has sought to find grounds within liberal political theory to defend rights for cultural groups. Kymlicka argues that the individual's ... -
The election result and its implications for political party configuration
Piper, Laurence (Sabinet, 2004)As a competition for both popular support and political office, Election 2004 deepened the dominant-party system in South Africa. In terms of support, the African National Congress (ANC) did better than ever. Indeed, its ... -
The emergent practice of governance and its implications for the concept of politics
Piper, Laurence (AJOL, 2007)This paper explores the implications of the disjuncture between the real-world practice of governance and the popular understanding of politics. There are two ways of addressing this disjuncture. The first is to accept the ... -
Enforced informalisation: the case of liquor retailers in South Africa
Charman, Andrew; Petersen, Leif; Piper, Laurence (Taylor & Francis, 2013)After a decade of unsuccessful efforts to migrate informal businesses to South Africa’s formal economy there remains little understanding of the dynamics in this sector, especially as regards micro-enterprises. International ... -
Expert advocacy for the marginalised: how and why democratic mediation matters to deepening democracy in the global South
Piper, Laurence; von Lieres, Bettina (Institute of Development Studies, 2011)Summary: The paper argues that the practice of democratic mediation is an increasingly common, yet under-researched, component of engagements between citizens and public authorities across the globe. While the actors who ... -
From exclusion to informal segregation: The limits to racial transformation at the University of Natal
Piper, Laurence; Durrheim, Kevin; Trotter, Kirsty (Taylor & Francis, 2004)In the context of higher education transformation in South Africa, this paper attempts to capture a series of observations about transformation at the forme r University ofNatal. From a descriptive, multidisciplinary ... -
From local survivalism to foreign entrepreneurship: the transformation of the spaza sector in Delft, Cape Town
Charman, Andrew; Petersen, Leif; Piper, Laurence (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2012)Small, home-based grocery stores, known as spaza shops, are ubiquitous throughout the township areas of urban South Africa, constituting an important business in the informal economy. In recent years, this retail market ... -
From religious transcendence to political utopia: the legacy of Richard Turner for Post-Apartheid political thought
Piper, Laurence (Berghahn Journals, 2010-06)In recent times South African politics has come to exhibit features typical of many post-colonial contexts, not least the rise of acrimonious and confrontational politics based around personalities and forms of populism. ... -
‘How participatory institutions deepen democracy through broadening representation: the case of participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil’
Piper, Laurence (Berghahn, 2014-06)Abstract: At the same time as democracy has ‘triumphed’ in most of the world, it leaves many unsatisfied at the disjuncture between the democratic ideal and its practical expression. Participatory practices and institutions, ... -
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 ... -
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 ...