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| Title: | Citizen leadership: deepening democratic accountability in India, Brazil, and South Africa |
| Editors: | Jha, Vikas Vaishnava, Bhavita Bandyopadhyay, Kaustuv Kanti |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Pages: | 278 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | New Delhi |
| Publisher: | Academic Foundation in association with PRIA |
| ISBN: | 8171888674; 9788171888672 |
| Geographic terms: | South Africa Brazil India |
| Subjects: | community participation civil society |
| Abstract: | In the winter of 2003, the global community began to take note of a new axis of cooperation called IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa), the 'southern' voice of trade negotiations at WTO, which naturally attracted academic attention. This book is the outcome of a research project 'Promoting Learning on Citizen Leadership: Synthesizing Experiences of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) conducted by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (India). The Introduction by Kaustuv Kanti Bandyopadhay discusses the conceptual framework The articles revelant to South Africa are: Citizen leadership: deepening democratic accountability in India, Brazil and South Africa (Vikas Jha, Bhavita Vaishnava); Citizen leadership in Cape Town, South Africa: a tale of three communities (Chris Tapscott on resistance to the location of the FIFA 2010 soccer stadium in Green Point, access to new State housing by backyard dwellers in Langa, and access to State housing by the residence of the Joe Slovo informal settlement); and Women leaders and intermediary organisations in Khayelitsha, South Africa (Lisa Thompson, Ina Conradie). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
