Sweet Home: A Preliminary Investigation into the Socio-Political Character of Recent Road Blockades by Protesting Shack Dwellers in South Africa*
Sweet Home: A Preliminary Investigation into the Socio-Political Character of Recent Road Blockades by Protesting Shack Dwellers in South Africa*
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甜蜜之家：对南非棚屋居民抗议最近道路封锁的社会政治特征的初步调查*
DOI：
10.1177/0021909613478402
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
1
通讯作者：
Jared Sacks
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作者：
Jared Sacks
在2012年冬天的大部分时间里，开普敦各地棚户区的社区走上街头，举行了自1994年以来最活跃的公民不服从抗议活动。了解到主流政治地形往往试图混淆和误导公众对这些抗议活动的真实性质，本文调查的政治家从民主联盟（DA），这些抗议活动正在协调的非洲人国民大会青年联盟（ANCYL）的索赔。这些大的政治参与者对辩论进行道德说教，将焦点从提供服务和要求有意义的参与等完全合法的问题上转移开来。直接与甜蜜之家农场的社区成员交谈，这是菲利普地区一个有15,000人的非正式定居点，揭示了官方玩家对甜蜜之家的说法与当地实际情况之间的巨大鸿沟。
For much of the winter of 2012, communities in shack settlements across Cape Town took to the streets in some of the most active civil disobedience protests since 1994. Knowing that the mainstream political terrain often seeks to obfuscate and mislead the public about the true nature of these protests, this paper investigates claims by politicians from the Democratic Alliance (DA) that these protests were being coordinated by the Youth League of the African National Congress (ANCYL). These big political players moralize the debate, shifting the focus from the perfectly legitimate issues of service delivery and demands for meaningful engagement. Speaking directly to community members of Sweet Home Farm, an informal settlement of 15,000 people in the Philippi area, revealed a yawning chasm between what official players are saying about Sweet Home and the actual realities on the ground.