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Forging New Political Identities in the Shanty Towns of Durban, South Africa

In: Historical Materialism
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Richard Michael Pithouse University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa

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Abstract

This contribution offers some observations with regard to political identities in a popular movement largely based in the shantytowns of Durban, South Africa. It seeks to examine, via more than a decade of immersion and research, one instance of how popular organisation and mobilisation have been mediated through shifting political identities. It argues that if discourse professionals on the left are to become effective actors it will be necessary to take popular political identities a lot more seriously, and to enable mutually transformative engagement between theory and actually-existing forms of popular striving and struggle.

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