Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa

This open access book offers a compelling account of everyday life, livelihoods, and governance in post-apartheid South Africa among the urban poor and marginalized, anchored in and through a critique of the concept of informality, or living outside of the state, its laws, services, and protection....

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Päätekijä: Jinnah, Zaheera
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description This open access book offers a compelling account of everyday life, livelihoods, and governance in post-apartheid South Africa among the urban poor and marginalized, anchored in and through a critique of the concept of informality, or living outside of the state, its laws, services, and protection. Using a case study of the Zama Zama, loosely translated from the isiZulu as ‘to hustle, or to strive’ and colloquially used to refer to those working as informal artisanal miners on Johannesburg’s numerous disused and abandoned gold mines, the book documents an ethnography of this community’s everyday lives, struggles, and hopes. It provides an intimate account of a community, its social relations, and its political relationship to the state. The narratives of the Zama Zama are used to raise broader questions about precarity, belonging, and governance in post-apartheid South Africa, and suggest that pervasive informality could risk the country's democratic order.
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Jinnah, Zaheera
Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa
title Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa
title_full Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa
title_fullStr Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa
title_full_unstemmed Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa
title_short Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa
title_sort informal livelihoods and governance in south africa
topic Global South politics
informal economies
artisanal mining
South Africa
urban governance
South African politics and governance
migration
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migration
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