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oapen-20.500.12657-593502022-11-19T03:41:16Z Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa Jinnah, Zaheera Global South politics informal economies artisanal mining South Africa urban governance South African politics and governance migration bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTF Development studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPH Political structure & processes bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology 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. 2022-11-18T14:20:01Z 2022-11-18T14:20:01Z 2022 book ONIX_20221118_9783031106958_29 9783031106958 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59350 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-10695-8.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-10695-8 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-10695-8 10.1007/978-3-031-10695-8 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 2c74e711-c31e-4a19-b847-a26e79ad16e0 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 010991e3-cf1e-4875-9c97-72812827e14e 51735283-1503-4158-b50a-e4034eba8107 9783031106958 Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 99 Cham [...] [...] [...] [...] National Research Foundation NRF Wellcome Trust Wellcome University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand University of Edinburgh open access
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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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