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 (Written in early 2005 but still awaiting publication in a book)
• “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
• Universality: The Politics of Sameness by Patrick Harrison, 2008
• Social Movements and Shack Dwellers in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durban, by Francesco Gastaldon, 2008
• The political significance of popular illegalties in post-apartheid South Africa, Chris McMichael, 2008
• Fanon in South Africa, Nigel Gibson, 2009
• Abahlali baseMjondolo: ‘a homemade politics’ Rights, democracy and social movements in South Africa, by Matt Birkinshaw, 2009
• Fanonian Practices and the politics of space in postapartheid South Africa: The Challenge of the Shack Dwellers Movement (Abahlali baseMjondolo), by Nigel Gibson, 2009
• The Role of Citizens in Post-Apartheid South Africa: a Case-Study of Citizen Involvement in Informal Settlement Projects, eThekwini, Sarah Cooper-Knock, 2009
• Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Struggle for the City in Durban, South Africa, by Richard Pithouse, 2009
• “…we are being left to burn because we do not count” – Biopolitics, abandonment, and resistance, by Anna Selmeczi, 2009
• Cities Without Citizens: A Perspective on the Struggle of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Durban Shackdweller Movement, Raj Patel, 2009
• The Role of Anarchism in Contemporary Anti-Systemic Social Movements, Morgan Rodgers Gibson, 2009
• Shack Dweller's Movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, Ercüment Celik, 2009
• “We are the people who don’t count” – Contesting biopolitical abandonment, by Anna Selmeczi, 2010
• Educating Resistance, Anna Selmeczi, 2010
• Motala Heights A: Survey Findings, by Sarah Cooper-Knock, 2010
• The Work of Violence:a timeline of armed attacks at Kennedy Road, by Kerry Chance, 2010
• Shackdweller Citizenship, by Margart Scott, 2010
• Relocation, relocation, marginalisation: development, and grassroots struggles to transform politics in urban South Africa, by Dan Wilcockson, 2010
• What Happened to the “Promised Land”? A Fanonian Perspective on Post-Apartheid South Africa, Nigel Gibson, 2011
• Challenging abandonment: The South African shack-dwellers’ “living politics” as counter-conduct, by Anna Selmeczi, 2011
• ‘From shack to the Constitutional Court’: The litigious disruption of governing global cities, Anna Selmeczi, April 2011
• Whose activism counts?, by Noor Nieftagodien, July 2011
• Politics of Grieving, Drucilla Cornell, 2011
• “We are the people who do not count” Thinking the disruption of the biopolitics of abandonment, PhD Thesis by Anna Selmeczi, April 2012
• Abahlali’s Vocal Politics of Proximity: Speaking, Suffering and Political Subjectivization, by Anna Selmeczi, October 2012
• “We are Poor, not Stupid”: Learning from Autonomous Grassroots Social Movements in South Africa, by Anne Harley, 2013

   

   

   

  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 and Kristian Stokke, 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
• Insurgent Planning: Situating Radical Planning in the Global South, by Faranak Miraftab, 2009
• Claiming the Right to the City Contesting Forced Evictions of Squatters in Cape Town during the run-up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, by Rosalie de Bruijn, 2010
• Exploring mobile phone practices in social movements in South Africa – the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, by Sarah Chiumbu, 2012

   

   

   

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Attachments

Pithouse Seminar Paper - School of Development Studies: The University of Abahlali baseMjondolo