Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa

William Beinart is a historian and Emeritus Professor at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. He has recently published, with Peter Delius and Michelle Hay, Rights to Land (2017) and papers on land reform and tenure.Marcelle C. Dawson is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Departmental Postgraduate Committee Chair at the University of Otago. William Beinart is a historian and Emeritus Professor at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. He has recently published, with Peter Delius and Michelle Hay, Rights to Land (2017) and papers on land reform and tenure.Julian Brown is Associate Professor in the Politics Departments at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Tracy Carson is an author and academic and previously served as as a Presidential Management Fellow for the U.S. federal government

• Chapter 1: Popular politics and resistance movements in South Africa, 1970–2008William BeinartChapter 2: The Durban strikes of 1973: Political identities and the management of protestJulian BrownChapter 3: ‘There’s more to it than slurp and burp’: The Fatti’s & Moni’s strike and the use of boycotts in mass resistance in Cape TownTracy CarsonChapter 4: The role of the African National Congress in popular protest during the township uprisings, 1984–1989Thula SimpsonChapter 5: Strategies of struggle: The Nelson Mandela campaignGenevieve KleinChapter 6: From removals to reform: Land struggles in Weenen in KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaChizuko SatoChapter 7: From popular resistance to populist politics in the TranskeiTim GibbsChapter 8: ‘It’s a beautiful struggle’: Siyayinqoba/Beat it! and the HIV/AIDS treatment struggle on South African televisionRebecca HodesChapter 9: The Nelson Mandela Museum and the tyranny of political symbolsMfaniseni Fana SihlongonyaneChapter 10: Black nurses’ strikes at Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, 1948–2007Simonne HorwitzChapter 11: The ‘New Struggle’: Resources, networks and the formation of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) 1994–1998Mandisa MbaliChapter 12: New social movements as civil society: The case of past and present SowetoKelly RosenthalChapter 13: ‘Phansi Privatisation! Phansi!’: The Anti-Privatisation Forum and ideology in social movementsMarcelle C. Dawson