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Without the blanket of the land: Agrarian change and biopolitics in post-apartheid South Africa
(2015)
What are the responses – from above and below – to processes of jobless de-agrarianization?
What are the dynamics and the consequences of the inclusion of poor, vulnerable and unruly populations within processes of ...
Position papers for the national Land tenure summit
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
The attached position papers were written by researchers based at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, and at the Centre for Law and Society, University of Cape Town. ...
In search of South Africa’s second economy: Chronic poverty, vulnerability and adverse incorporation in Mt. Frere and Khayelitsha
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2007)
Since 2003, South African policy discourse about persistent poverty has been dominated by the notion that poor people stay poor because they are trapped in a ‘second economy’, disconnected from the mainstream ‘first world ...
Real acts, imagined landscapes
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)
Why do we want land and agrarian reform? Why should its policies be supported? Much can be said about its stated purposes and goals, but why do those goals matter — and to whom? If, as James Ferguson remarked earlier in ...
Without the blanket of the land: agrarian change and biopolitics in post–Apartheid South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
This paper connects Marxist approaches to the agrarian political economy of South Africa with post-Marshallian and Foucauldian analyses of distributional regimes and late capitalist governmentality. Looking at South Africa’s ...
Comments on the Green Paper on land reform 2011
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
As we have indicated in our earlier press release, the document released as a Green Paper by the
Department Ministry of Rural Development and Land Reform is a great disappointment.
The Green Paper is the product of a ...
Vulnerability and social protection at the margins of the formal economy
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)
This report sets out the results of an in-depth study of livelihood strategies and
‘coping mechanisms’ among poor people in one very specific, but highly significant
context of poverty in South Africa. Its core concrete ...
Chronic and structural poverty in South Africa: Challenges for action and research
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)
Ten years after liberation, the persistence of poverty is one of the most important and urgent problems facing South Africa. This paper reflects on some of the findings based on research undertaken as part of the participation ...
Emerging rooibos farmer market access project
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Global markets increasingly require rapid and coordinated response to standards and certification. Yet despite broad political transformations in post‐Apartheid South Africa, structural power relations limit emerging farmer ...