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Power in action: Democracy, citizenship and social justice by Steven Friedman
(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 ...
Book review: Building a capable state: service delivery in post-apartheid South Africa
(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 ...
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 ...
Unpacking race, party and class from below: surveying citizenship in the Msunduzi Municipality
(Elsevier, 2012)
On the basis of a 2008 survey conducted in the Msunduzi municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province, the paper begins an exploration of the character of popular politics and citizenship in South Africa. Embracing a ...