Activists in the State: City officials working behind the scenes for change in post-apartheid Johannesburg
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2024
- handle: 10670/1.067fzq
- isbn: 978-1-80008-546-6
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- doi: 10.2307/jj.5699290.9
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Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, « Activists in the State: City officials working behind the scenes for change in post-apartheid Johannesburg », HAL-SHS : sociologie, ID : 10.2307/jj.5699290.9
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This chapter explores how the concept of institutionnal activism gains meaning in post-apartheid Johannesburg city administration. A concept that has been discarded for some time in social movements literature, but has regained currency in North American feminist literature and in Brazilian academia inspired by Lula's legacy, it has seldom been explored at the local, city level, except in the work of North American Planner Pierre Clavel, unpacking what makes cities 'progressive'. The chapter, after examining the various and situated definitions of 'institutional activism', reflects on what makes institutional activism specific as a form of activism, through analysing the practices of three City officials' attempts to push for progressive change in post-apartheid Johannesburg.