The edge of the periphery: situating the Khomani San of the Southern Kalahari in the political economy of Southern Africa

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Title:	The edge of the periphery: situating the Khomani San of the Southern Kalahari in the political economy of Southern Africa
Authors:	Francis, Suzanne Francis, Michael Akinola, Adeoye
Year:	2016
Periodical:	African Identities (ISSN 1472-5851)
Volume:	14
Issue:	4
Pages:	370-383
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Southern Africa
Subjects:	Kalahari Desert San development attitudes
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2016.1154813
Abstract:	In this article, the authors situate the Southern Kalahari San within the political economy of Southern Africa and within the world system. Here they draw on and critique modernization theory as a model of explanation for the lack of development found locally. In the Southern Kalahari, the?Khomani San won a massive land claim that should have empowered and enabled local development. Yet they remain largely impoverished, while seeking out a meaningful life on the edge of the capitalist world system. Within states, contradictions remain as local diversity continues to be reproduced and modernity itself is reproduced as local diversity. The research is premised on empirical fieldwork conducted in the Southern Kalahari in 2013 and supported by a series of earlier field research over the previous five years. The San of the Southern Kalahari are not resisting modernity but drawing on aspects of it selectively for their own vision of meaningful development. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]