Political Values and Narratives of Resistance: Social Justice and the Fractured Promises of Post-colonial States

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: Seeking social justice in the post-colonial state
	Introduction
		Studying the ‘post-colonial’
		The democratic and post-colonial state
		Participatory democracy and ‘people’s power’
	Framing the debates: From political values to the social contract
	Understanding political values and perceptions of justice: Narratives and resistance
		Conceptualising and surfacing political values
		Reading political values in the post-colonial state
		What do citizens see as just?
		Resistance
	The social contract and the post-colonial state
		Fracturing social contracts?
	Conclusion
	Approach, methodology and structure
		Approach
		Methodology
		Structure of the book
	Notes
	References
Chapter 1: Surfacing political values: Narratives of justice in Cape Town, South Africa
	Introduction
	Political values and justice
	Stories and the politics of storytelling
	Storytelling as politics: A methodology
	Personal storytelling, values formation and claiming a place
	Three broken hearts (A personal story told by soeraya davids)
	Collective narratives and collective claims
		Gangsters in uniform: A collective narrative by the Delft Safety Group 8
	Trauma, values and the boundaries of justice
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: Silent citizens and resistant texts: Reading hidden narratives
	Introduction
	Silent citizens and political values
	Silent citizenship through criminalization
	Silent citizenship through demobilization
	Silent citizenship through universalism
	Resistant texts, hidden practices and political values
	Resistance through transgressions of dress conventions
	Resistance through (Re)naming
	Un- and relearning in order to read resistant texts and silent resistances
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: A moral economy of citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa?
	Introduction
	Defining the moral economy
	Forging a constitutional moral economy in post-apartheid South Africa
	Political promises and the ‘politics of patience’
	The moral economy meets the moral consumer
	The law meets the moral economy
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Fractured social contracts: The moral economy of protest and poaching in Cape Town, South Africa
	Introduction
	Expanding the moral economy framework
	Protest in the bay
	Values formation: Legitimizing notions in the moral economies of protest and poaching
		Custom, rights and fish as a social good
		Racial exclusion and powerlessness as a legitimizing frame
	Public authority and the moral economy
		The state
		Community-based public authority
		Political actors as public authorities
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
	Interviews
Chapter 5: Spectators of protest: Concerns from an online neighbourhood facebook group
	A protest over the road
	Separated by concrete and history
	Online conversations and perceiving protest
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: ‘This is our water!’: The politics of locality and the commons in the city of Bulawayo
	Introduction
	Bulawayo: The dry city of kings
	Struggling over water and political autonomy: The protests of 2005–2007
		‘Hands off – this is our water!’: Asserting local control of the commons
		Awakening residents’ collective power
		Water, authority and legitimacy
	Claiming water as a human right: The protests of 2013–2015
		Local democracy and governing the commons
		Prepaid meters and the right to water
		Prepaid water meters and economic, social, and environmental implications
		Residents taking action 15
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: The social contract, the state and Adivasi protests against large-scale mining in India
	Introduction
	Adivasi and their land: A history of exclusion, exploitation and impoverishment
		Taxation during the colonial period
		Transfer of Adivasi land to non-Adivasi
		Restricted access to forests
		Displacement by industrial projects
	Two cases of Adivasi protests against large-scale mining
		Protests against UAIL
		Protests against vedanta mining
	The social contract, the state and the marginalized
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: Claiming agency by telling a counter-story in court: Adivasis v. ‘encounter’ killings in India
	Introduction 1
	The petition
	Telling stories in court
	The legal process
	The art of telling a counter-story in court
		Affectiveness
			By Connecting the petitioners with the qualities of a public-spirited citizen
			By connecting the victims with the qualities of a good citizen
			Using familiar themes of family, love and grief to create resonance with the Adivasi’s plight
		Persuasion
			Highlighting factual inaccuracies in the opponent’s response
			Juxtaposing facts in a way that creates links to the context
			Reiterating common elements in the individual stories
			Tone and non-coercion
		Transformation
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 9: Including the excluded: Interests and values in the Brazilian public health care system 1
	Introduction
		Interests, political values and health policy
	The building of the SUS, a public universal health system
	The permanent challenge of inclusion
	Revisiting the challenge of inclusion
	Final remarks
	Notes
	References
Chapter 10: Negotiating foreign policy from below: Voice, participation and protest
	Introduction
	Value plurality in international development cooperation: Participation and protest in the new development bank
		Voice, participation and protest in BRICS summits
		Voice, participation, and protest around the New Development Bank
		Value plurality regarding IBSA countries’ international development cooperation?
	Value formation and the politicisation of development cooperation in IBSA countries
		Domestic politics of foreign policy and value formation
		Development cooperation/South-South cooperation domestic ‘constituencies’
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Index