From Comrades to Citizens

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction: From Comrades to Citizens

   • Glenn Adler, Jonny Steinberg

   Pages 1-25

3. Survival and Resistance: Township Organizations and Non-violent Direct Action in Twentieth Century South Africa

   • Colin Bundy

   Pages 26-51

4. The Development of Strategic Thought in South Africa’s Civic Movements, 1977–1990

   • Jeremy Seekings

   Pages 52-85

5. Hegemony, Democracy and Civil Society: Political Participation in Kwazakele Township, 1980–93

   • Janet Cherry

   Pages 86-113

6. Fenced in by Ideas of Modernity: Land Struggles and Civic Activism in Namaqualand, 1980–1993

   • Steven Robins

   Pages 114-144

7. Civic Organization in Alexandra in the Early 1990s: An Ethnographic Approach

   • Justine Lucas

   Pages 145-174

8. A Place for Civics in a Liberal Democratic Polity? The Fate of Local Institutions of Resistance after Apartheid

   • Jonny Steinberg

   Pages 175-204

9. After Apartheid: Civic Organizations in the ‘New’ South Africa

   • Jeremy Seekings

   Pages 205-224

10. Back Matter

    Pages 225-253

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In the 1980s South Africa's urban townships exploded into insurrection led by youth and residents' organisations that collectively became known as the civics movement. Ironically the movement has been unable to adapt to the role of a voluntary association in the liberal polity it helped create, and has great difficulty defining any alternative role. This volume charts the rise and fall of the movement in the transition to and consolidation of democracy in South Africa.

• Africa
• Civic Activism
• democracy
• Institution
• organization
• participation
• political participation

• Sociology of Work Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

  Glenn Adler

• Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg, South Africa

  Jonny Steinberg

COLIN BUNDY Vice-Chancellor, University of the Witwatersrand JANET CHERRY Teacher, Department of Sociology, University of Port Elizabeth JUSTINE LUCAS Ph.D. student studying Ecotourism in South African, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies STEVEN ROBINS Teacher, Anthropology Department, University of Western Cape JEREMY SEEKINS Teacher, Sociology Department, University of Cape Town

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