Library of Academic Research on Abahlali baseMjondolo

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A Library of Academic Research on Abahlali baseMjondolo

The work below includes undergraduate essays, post-graduate theses, research reports and work published in peer reviewed academic journals. If you have or know of work to add to this library please email us here.

  • Struggle is a School: The rise of a shack dwellers' movement in Durban, South Africa by Richard Pithouse, 2005
  • The Dialectics of the Dump by Raj Patel, 2005 (coming soon!)
  • “Amandla Awethu”: Direct Action by Civil Society in eThekwini by Lizzy Lyons, 2005
  • Towards Delivery and Dignity by Jacob Byrant, 2005
  • A Short Course in Politics at the University of Abahlali baseMjondolo by Raj Patel, 2005
  • "Our Struggle is Thought, On the Ground, Running": The University of Abahlali baseMjondolo by Richard Pithouse, 2005
  • Trapped in Corporatism? Trade Union Linkages to the Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement in Durban by Alex Beresford, 2006
  • Internal & External Activism: Working Together at Kennedy Road by Lara Huss, 2006
  • Facing Uncertainty with Unity: Lives and livelihoods of shack dwellers in Motala Farm by Lisa Fry, 2006
  • What is the Price of Education? A Look at the Inefficacy of School Fee Policy on Kennedy Road by Saren Stiegel, 2006
  • Towards a Poor People's Movement? A survey of Durban activists views on struggle, unity and the future by Jessica Harris, 2006
  • Rethinking Public Participation from Below by Richard Pithouse, 2006
  • Taking Poverty Seriously: What the poor are saying and why it matters by Xin Wei Ngiam, 2006
  • Is Fanon Relevant? Translations, the postcolonial imagination and the second stage of total liberation by Nigel Gibson, 2006
  • Shack Dwellers on the Move in Durban by Richard Pithouse, 2007
  • [re]connecting the World Social Forum by Mark Butler & (almost) 100 Others, 2007
  • Lessons from eThekwini: Pariahs Hold Their Ground Against a State that is Both Criminal and Democratic by Mark Butler & Richard Pithouse, 2007
  • Electing Land Questions: A Methodological Discussion with Reference to Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Durban Shack dwellers' Movement by Raj Patel, 2007
  • Abahlali’s Narrative by Jacob Bryant, 2007
  • Zabalaza, Unfinished Struggles Against Apartheid: The Shack Dwellers' Struggle in Durban, South Africa by Nigel Gibson, 2007
  • Civil society, citizenship and the politics of the (im)possible: rethinking militancy in Africa by Michael Neocosmos, 2007
  • Rights, democracy, social movements: Abahlali baseMjondolo - a living politics by Matt Birkinshaw, 2007
  • Mission in an Urbanized Context. The Case of Ash Road Shack Dwellers' Community by Filippo Mondini, 2007
  • You'll Never Silence the Voice of the Voiceless: Critical Voices of Activists in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Kate Gunby, 2007
  • Youth Engagement in the eThekwini Municipality: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Behaviours of Youth Acting Civically by Ally Brundige, 2007
  • Special Issue of the Journal of Asian & African Studies on Shanty Town Struggles articles by Jacob Byrant, Nigel Gibson, Marie Huchzermeyer, Raj Patel & Richard Pithouse, 2008
  • How NGOs Affect the Autonomy and Agency of People they Are Trying to Help by Stephanie Lynch, 2008
  • Chapter 2 from PhD Thesis by Ercüment Celik, 2008
  • Beyond State Politics, by Brother Filippo Mondini, May 2008
  • Narratives of Everyday Resistance:Spaces and Practices of Citizenship in the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement by Neha Nimmagudda, 2008
  • More Than Just Service Delivery: The struggle for electrification in shack settlements in Durban by Carla Mike, 2008
  • Upright and free: Fanon in South Africa, from Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo by Nigel Gibson, 2008
  • Universality: The Politics of Sameness by Patrick Harrison, 2008
  • Academic Research on the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign and the Joe Slovo/Delft/Gateway Struggle

  • Housing battles in post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Mandela Park, Khayelitsha by Martin Legassick, 2003
  • Building Unity in Diversity: Building Social Movement Activism in the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign by Sophie Oldfield, 2004
  • Insurgency and Spaces of Active Citizenship: The Story of Western Cape Anti-eviction Campaign in South Africa by Faranak Miraftab & Shana Wills, 2005
  • Feminist Praxis, Citizenship and Informal Politics: Reflections on South Africa's Anti-Eviction Campaign by Faranak Miraftab, 2006
  • Living on the edge: a study of the Delft temporary relocation area by Helen Macgregor, Warren Smit and Zama Mgwatyu, 2007
  • Itemba liyaphilisa: Redefining Development Through the Joe Slovo Anti-Eviction Struggle by Alyssa Huff, 2007
  • Housing and Evictions at the N2 Gateway Project in Delft, by Kerry Chance, 2008