Gavin Capps
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 186200 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gavin Capps |
| NOMBRES | Gavin |
| APELLIDO | Capps |
| FIRMA | CAPPS G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5683-4264 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa
Custom and exploitation
Institutions and idioms of 'customary' authority have returned to prominence in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the 'rush' for its landed resources. But how is 'the chieftaincy' itself to be conceptualised within agrarian political economy? This contribution initiates a materialist investigation, focussing on the origins of its modern form in the colonial period. Contrary to Mamdani's (Citizen and subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy …
Tribal-Landed Property
This paper develops an explicitly materialist analysis of the 'rentier chieftaincy' by drawing on Marx's theory of modern landed property. It argues that the colonial formation of 'tribal' land relations may be understood in relation to the subjugation of African labour to colonial capital, which in turn unintentionally created a potential barrier against investment on tribal land, and hence the conditions for the chiefly appropriation of ground …
An Interview with Henry Bernstein
Henry Bernstein was co-editor (with Terence J. Byres) of the Journal of Agrarian Change between 2001 and 2008 and co-edited The Journal of Peasant Studies (where he joined Byres) between 1985 and 2000. This interview highlights some of Bernstein's major pedagogical and theoretical contributions to the fields of agrarian political economy and development studies. To do so, it traces his intellectual and political trajectory, providing important co…
Claims from below
Drawing on a detailed study of three village-level disputes in the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela traditional authority area, this article explores how intensifying land struggles on the platinum belt around Rustenburg are being mediated through conflicts over group boundaries and identities, and how this in turn is articulating a potentially new yet contradictory rural class politics. In a context where chiefly authorities are themselves becoming major sha…
Labour in the time of platinum
The August 2012 massacre of 34 striking mineworkers at Lonmin’s platinum mine in Marikana was for many the event that has defined post-apartheid South Africa. In that single moment, the last, tatte
Victim of its own success? The platinum mining industry and the apartheid mineral property system in South Africa's political transition
The South African platinum industry has grown phenomenally since the mid 1990s to become the single largest component of the national mining sector in employment and sales-value terms. In line with Fine's (1992) contribution to a general theory of mining, this article presents an initial political economy of that industry by considering the critical role that the apartheid mineral property system played in its dominant strategy of competitive acc…
A bourgeois reform with social justice? The contradictions of the Minerals Development Bill and black economic empowerment in the South African platinum mining industry
Since assuming power in 1994, the African National Congress has pursued an ambitious policy of ‘modernising’ the minerals and mining sector in line with its overarching goal of developing an internationally competitive, non-racial and socially stabilised South African capitalism. This is a materialist analysis of the measures and evolution of that policy in the critically contested period between the release of the Minerals Development Bill (MDB)…
World Development
Tribal-Landed Property
This paper develops an explicitly materialist analysis of the 'rentier chieftaincy' by drawing on Marx's theory of modern landed property. It argues that the colonial formation of 'tribal' land relations may be understood in relation to the subjugation of African labour to colonial capital, which in turn unintentionally created a potential barrier against investment on tribal land, and hence the conditions for the chiefly appropriation of ground …
Claims from below
Drawing on a detailed study of three village-level disputes in the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela traditional authority area, this article explores how intensifying land struggles on the platinum belt around Rustenburg are being mediated through conflicts over group boundaries and identities, and how this in turn is articulating a potentially new yet contradictory rural class politics. In a context where chiefly authorities are themselves becoming major sha…
Victim of its own success? The platinum mining industry and the apartheid mineral property system in South Africa's political transition
The South African platinum industry has grown phenomenally since the mid 1990s to become the single largest component of the national mining sector in employment and sales-value terms. In line with Fine's (1992) contribution to a general theory of mining, this article presents an initial political economy of that industry by considering the critical role that the apartheid mineral property system played in its dominant strategy of competitive acc…
A bourgeois reform with social justice? The contradictions of the Minerals Development Bill and black economic empowerment in the South African platinum mining industry
Since assuming power in 1994, the African National Congress has pursued an ambitious policy of ‘modernising’ the minerals and mining sector in line with its overarching goal of developing an internationally competitive, non-racial and socially stabilised South African capitalism. This is a materialist analysis of the measures and evolution of that policy in the critically contested period between the release of the Minerals Development Bill (MDB)…
Custom and exploitation
Institutions and idioms of 'customary' authority have returned to prominence in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the 'rush' for its landed resources. But how is 'the chieftaincy' itself to be conceptualised within agrarian political economy? This contribution initiates a materialist investigation, focussing on the origins of its modern form in the colonial period. Contrary to Mamdani's (Citizen and subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy …
Labour in the time of platinum
The August 2012 massacre of 34 striking mineworkers at Lonmin’s platinum mine in Marikana was for many the event that has defined post-apartheid South Africa. In that single moment, the last, tatte
World Development
Victim of its own success? The platinum mining industry and the apartheid mineral property system in South Africa's political transition
The South African platinum industry has grown phenomenally since the mid 1990s to become the single largest component of the national mining sector in employment and sales-value terms. In line with Fine's (1992) contribution to a general theory of mining, this article presents an initial political economy of that industry by considering the critical role that the apartheid mineral property system played in its dominant strategy of competitive acc…
A bourgeois reform with social justice? The contradictions of the Minerals Development Bill and black economic empowerment in the South African platinum mining industry
Since assuming power in 1994, the African National Congress has pursued an ambitious policy of ‘modernising’ the minerals and mining sector in line with its overarching goal of developing an internationally competitive, non-racial and socially stabilised South African capitalism. This is a materialist analysis of the measures and evolution of that policy in the critically contested period between the release of the Minerals Development Bill (MDB)…
Claims from below
Drawing on a detailed study of three village-level disputes in the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela traditional authority area, this article explores how intensifying land struggles on the platinum belt around Rustenburg are being mediated through conflicts over group boundaries and identities, and how this in turn is articulating a potentially new yet contradictory rural class politics. In a context where chiefly authorities are themselves becoming major sha…
Labour in the time of platinum
The August 2012 massacre of 34 striking mineworkers at Lonmin’s platinum mine in Marikana was for many the event that has defined post-apartheid South Africa. In that single moment, the last, tatte
Tribal-Landed Property
This paper develops an explicitly materialist analysis of the 'rentier chieftaincy' by drawing on Marx's theory of modern landed property. It argues that the colonial formation of 'tribal' land relations may be understood in relation to the subjugation of African labour to colonial capital, which in turn unintentionally created a potential barrier against investment on tribal land, and hence the conditions for the chiefly appropriation of ground …
An Interview with Henry Bernstein
Henry Bernstein was co-editor (with Terence J. Byres) of the Journal of Agrarian Change between 2001 and 2008 and co-edited The Journal of Peasant Studies (where he joined Byres) between 1985 and 2000. This interview highlights some of Bernstein's major pedagogical and theoretical contributions to the fields of agrarian political economy and development studies. To do so, it traces his intellectual and political trajectory, providing important co…
Custom and exploitation
Institutions and idioms of 'customary' authority have returned to prominence in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the 'rush' for its landed resources. But how is 'the chieftaincy' itself to be conceptualised within agrarian political economy? This contribution initiates a materialist investigation, focussing on the origins of its modern form in the colonial period. Contrary to Mamdani's (Citizen and subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy …
Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa
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