‘Our Struggle is for the Full Loaf’: Protests, Social Welfare and Gendered Citizenship in South Africa

Type Journal Article - Journal of southern African studies
Title ‘Our Struggle is for the Full Loaf’: Protests, Social Welfare and Gendered Citizenship in South Africa
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Volume 37
Issue 02
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2011
Page numbers 369-388
URL http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070.2011.579437
Abstract
The waves of popular protest sweeping contemporary South Africa are inadequately explained by anti-globalisation, anti-neoliberal and even anti-government sentiments and analysis. Attention to the gendered dynamics of township life, including the nature of households, gender relations and the critical importance of social welfare provisions to poor women and their households, yields a revised understanding of protests and movements. The Durban-based shack-dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo is used to illustrate these points, as are original quantitative and qualitative data from urban townships in KwaZulu-Natal.

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