@article{1431538,
      author = {Jinnah, Zaheera,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1431538},
      title = {Informal livelihoods and governance in South Africa : the  hustle /},
      abstract = {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 Johannesburgs  numerous disused and abandoned gold mines, the book  documents an ethnography of this communitys 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. Zaheera Jinnah is Assistant  Professor in the School of Social Work, University of  Victoria, Canada, and a research associate at the African  Centre for Migration and Society, University of the  Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her research, teaching and  community work over the last 12 years centres on migration  and African studies. She has published widely in the  academic and popular press, including the co-edited book  Gender and Mobility in Africa (with K. Hiralal, Palgrave  Macmillan, 2018).},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10695-8},
      recid = {1431538},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
}