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Pervasive, but not politicised: Everyday violence, local rule and party popularity in a Cape Town township
(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 ...
Xenophobia, criminality and violent entrepreneurship: violence against Somali shopkeepers in Delft South, Cape Town, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis; Unisa Press, 2012)
Violence against Somali shopkeepers is often cited as evidence of xenophobic attitudes and violence
in South Africa. However, as argued in this article, it is not necessarily the case that such violence
is driven by ...
Party politics, the poor and the city: Reflections from the South African case
(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 ...
Deconstructing ‘the foreign’: The limits of citizenship for explaining price competition in the Spaza sector in South Africa
(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 ...
Representing Hamilton
(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 ...
The limits of participatory democracy and the rise of the informal politics of mediated representation in South Africa
(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 ...
‘How participatory institutions deepen democracy through broadening representation: the case of participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil’
(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, ...
Expert advocacy for the marginalised: how and why democratic mediation matters to deepening democracy in the global South
(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 religious transcendence to political utopia: the legacy of Richard Turner for Post-Apartheid political thought
(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. ...
From local survivalism to foreign entrepreneurship: the transformation of the spaza sector in Delft, Cape Town
(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 ...