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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 ...
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    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 ...
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    Further from the people – bipartisan ‘nationalisation’ thwarting the electoral system 

    Piper, Laurence (SUN Press, 2012)
    This chapter argues that local government elections offer a unique opportunity in South Africa’s political system for voters to practice forms of democracy that are more local, plural and accountable in character than at ...
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    Xenophobia, criminality and violent entrepreneurship: violence against Somali shopkeepers in Delft South, Cape Town, South Africa 

    Piper, Laurence; Charman, Andrew (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 ...
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    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’ ...
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    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 ...
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    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, ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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