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Reworking Citizenship
- Race, Gender, and Kinship in South Africa
Engelsk Paperback
Reworking Citizenship
- Race, Gender, and Kinship in South Africa
Engelsk Paperback

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In scenes reminiscent of the apartheid era, 2021 saw South Africa's streets filled with mass protests. While the country is lauded for its peaceful transition to democracy with citizenship for all, those previously disenfranchised, particularly women, remain outraged by their continued poverty and marginalization. As one black woman protester told a reporter, reflecting on the end of apartheid: "We didn't get freedom. We only got democracy." What obligations do states have to support their citizens? What meaning does citizenship itself hold?Blending archival and ethnographic methods, Brady G'sell tracks how historic resistance to racial and gendered marginalization in South Africa animate present-day contentions that regardless of voting rights, without jobs to support their families, the poor majority remain excluded from the nation. Through long-term fieldwork with impoverished black African, Indian, and coloured (mixed race) women living in the city of Durban, she reveals women's everyday efforts to rework political institutions that exclude them. Informed by her interlocutors, G'sell retheorizes citizenship as not solely tied to individual rights, but dependent on the security of social (often kinship) relations. She forwards the concept of relational citizenship as a means to reimagine political belonging amidst a world of declining wage labor and eroding state-citizen covenants.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
312
ISBN-13:
9781503639171
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1503639177
Udg. Dato:
13 aug 2024
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Stanford University Press
Oplagsdato:
13 aug 2024
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