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Popular Politics in South African Cities: Unpacking Community Participation
Claire Benit-Gbaffou
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Paperback. Community meetings seldom lead to significant change in urban policies, and have been accused of being sterile, sedative, or manipulative. This book starts from a simple question: Why do people then continue to participate in these meetings, sometimes massively, and on a regular basis? Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFFM; JFSG; JPHV; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Community meetings seldom lead to significant change in urban policies, and have been accused of being sterile, sedative, or manipulative. This book starts from a simple question: why do people then continue to participate in these meetings, sometimes massively, and on a regular basis? Authors from a variety of disciplines explore the multiple roles of these ‘invited’ spaces of participation.
From consolidation of individual social status and networks, to the construction and framing of the local ‘community’, the display of political or group loyalties and maintenance of clientelist exchange, access to information, rumors or gossip but also forms of ... Read more
Community meetings seldom lead to significant change in urban policies, and have been accused of being sterile, sedative, or manipulative. This book starts from a simple question: why do people then continue to participate in these meetings, sometimes massively, and on a regular basis? Authors from a variety of disciplines explore the multiple roles of these ‘invited’ spaces of participation.
From consolidation of individual social status and networks, to the construction and framing of the local ‘community’, the display of political or group loyalties and maintenance of clientelist exchange, access to information, rumors or gossip but also forms of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
HSRC Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN
9780796924643
SKU
V9780796924643
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