In the 1980s South Africa's urban townships exploded in to insurrection led by youth and residents' organizations that collectively became known as the 'civics movement.' Ironically it has been difficult for the civics movement to find a place for itself in the post-apartheid order it helped to create. This volume charts the rise and fall of the movement in the transistion to, and the consolidation of a democracy in South Africa.Author Biography: Glenn Adler is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of the Witwatersr and Jonny Steinberg is a senior consultant at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg.
In the 1980s South Africa's urban townships exploded in to insurrection led by youth and residents' organizations that collectively became known as the 'civics movement.' Ironically it has been difficult for the civics movement to find a place for itself in the post-apartheid order it helped to create. This volume charts the rise and fall of the movement in the transistion to, and the consolidation of a democracy in South Africa.Author Biography: Glenn Adler is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of the Witwatersr and Jonny Steinberg is a senior consultant at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg.
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