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Architects of Revolution? A Strategic Analysis of South African Leftist NGOs in the Struggle for a Better World
Architects of Revolution? A Strategic Analysis of South African Leftist NGOs in the Struggle for a Better World
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152007
- ISBN
- 9798383284469
- DDC
- 306
- 저자명
- Sacks, Jared.
- 서명/저자
- Architects of Revolution? A Strategic Analysis of South African Leftist NGOs in the Struggle for a Better World
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Columbia University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 368 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-01, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: West, Paige;Mitchell, Tim.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약It presents a profound paradox that the end of formal apartheid in South Africa and the political ascendancy of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress have also signalled the disintegration of people's power and the marginalisation of a once formidable anti-capitalist Left. Those who refused to be defeated and insisted that a better world was still possible asked anew, What is to be done? Their answer was to build a new Independent Left, using the Non-Governmental Organisation as their primary tool. This dissertation examines two leftist NGOs with distinct political approaches to organising, which have shaped formal anti-capitalist strategies in Cape Town over the past decade. The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), an activist space, policy think-tank, and alternative media centre, has aimed to restore the politics of the united front by bringing together employed and unemployed workers to lead a new eco-socialist Left alternative. Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU), an activist research and legal centre focusing on housing in the inner city, has fostered an inspiring movement of building occupiers and aimed to deconstruct the legacy of the apartheid city. Through a militant commitment to this wider Independent Left community, I have accompanied these organisations in their efforts, seeking to understand the role they can play in improving society. This dissertation investigates the central question of how to effectively utilize NGOs in the struggle for freedom and equality within the context of neoliberal capitalism. It has become clear that intellectual genealogies and ideological fortitude have laid the political foundation of these projects. Combined with the NGO's formal and hierarchical structure, key themes that define the practices of these organisations have emerged. Matters of dependency and control, as well as organising and leadership, have been crucial features of these projects. This has engendered tensions within the organisations between technocratic and intellectual modes of rule, as well as resistance to these governing structures. Taken together, this analysis provides a window into the possibilities and limitations that these organisational tools offer for radically reimagining our world.
- 일반주제명
- Cultural anthropology
- 일반주제명
- History
- 일반주제명
- South African studies
- 키워드
- Leadership
- 키워드
- Left
- 키워드
- NGO
- 키워드
- Politics
- 키워드
- South Africa
- 기타저자
- Columbia University Middle East South Asian and African Studies
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-01A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■653 ▼aMilitant research
■653 ▼aNGO
■653 ▼aPolitics
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■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17162394▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


