Informal livelihoods and governance in South Africa : the hustle / Zaheera Jinnah.
Jinnah, Zaheera, author.
2022
HV4162
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Title Informal livelihoods and governance in South Africa : the hustle / Zaheera Jinnah.
Author Jinnah, Zaheera, author.
ISBN 9783031106958 (electronic bk.)
3031106954 (electronic bk.)
9783031106941
3031106946
9783031106965
3031106962
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10695-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-10695-8 doi
Call Number HV4162
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.50968
Summary 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).
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Available in Other Form Informal livelihoods and governance in South Africa.
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Chapter 1: Beneath the Surface
Chapter 2: Meeting the miners
Chapter 3: Digging deep
Chapter 4: Outside the state: Informal systems of governance (6000 words)
Chapter 5: The Hustle.

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