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Title: | Legacies of Political Violence: An Examination of Political Conflict in Mpumalanga Township, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
Author: | Bonnin, Debby |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
Issue: | 62 |
Pages: | 59-83 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | political violence political conflicts 1980-1989 Politics and Government Law, Human Rights and Violence |
External link: | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/210422 |
Abstract: | The author argues that violence is embedded in the complex relationships between, on the one hand, political interests, social groups and organizational forms, and on the other, the dynamics of gender and generation within particular communities. These relationships are explored through an investigation of local-level political violence in Mpumalanga Township, located about half way between Pietermaritzburg and Durban (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), an area that was acutely enmeshed in political violence in the 1980s. This case study provides an opportunity to examine continuities and shifts in the nature of violence, the ways in which conflicts played out on the larger regional political stage act to shape local-level interests and alliances, and the ways in which political identities are shaped by the relationships people build in the particular spaces of households and neighbourhoods. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |