Political Values and Narratives of Resistance

This book brings together multidisciplinary perspectives to explore how political values and acts of resistance impact the delivery of social justice in post-colonial states.

Autorentext

Fiona Anciano is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her research areas include civil society, democracy, and urban politics.

Joanna Wheeler is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Political Studies, University of Western Cape. Her research interests include citizen participation and inclusion, gender and violence in urban contexts, and storytelling and participatory visual methodologies.

Inhalt

1. Surfacing Political Values: Narratives of Justice in **Cape Town, South Africa 2. Silent Citizens and Resistant Texts: Reading Hidden Narratives 3. The Politics of Patience and Moral Economy in Post-Apartheid South Africa 4. Fractured Social Contracts: Protest and Poaching in Cape Town, South Africa 5. Spectators of Protest: Concerns from an Online Neighbourhood Facebook Group 6. 'This Is Our Water!' The Politics of Locality and the Commons in the City of Bulawayo 7. The Social Contract, the State and Adivasi Protests Against Large Scale Mining in India 8. Claiming Agency By Telling a Counter-Story in Court: Adivasis v. 'Encounter' Killings in India 9. Including the Excluded: Interests and Values in the Brazilian Public Health Care System 10. Negotiating Foreign Policy from Below: Voice, Participation and Protest