Adam Habib
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Habib |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Habib |
| SIGNATURE | HABIB A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4064-6482 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Transcending the Past and Reimagining the Future of the South African University
Leading and managing any university is a challenging task in the 21st century, but undertaking this responsibility in a developing world context like South Africa, where the managerial and strategic challenges tend to be more acute, is an even more onerous one. Although there have been significant changes and massive state intervention in the last 20 years, South Africa’s post-apartheid higher education lags behind many of its counterparts in oth…
South Africa's Suspended Revolution: Hopes and Prospects
Managing Higher Education Institutions in Contemporary South Africa: Advancing Progressive Agendas in a Neo-Liberal and Technicist World
Democratization and Parliamentary Opposition in Contemporary South Africa: The 2009 National and Provincial Elections in Perspective
South Africa's 2009 elections were characterized by an increase in electoral participation in terms of registered voters and actual numbers of voters, a resurgence of support for the opposition, and a realignment within the opposition bloc in favour of the Democratic Alliance and the Congress of the People. In addition, the vote share of the governing African National Congress declined nationally for the first time since 1994, with the party also…
Introduction: Regional powers in contest and engagement: making sense of international relations in a globalised world
South Africa's foreign policy: Hegemonic Aspirations, Neoliberal Orientations and Global Transformation
South Africa's contemporary foreign policy cannot be understood outside an explanation of its post-apartheid political transition. Its actors, the ideas they express, the interests they represent and the institutions they craft are all crucially influenced and impacted upon by the democratic transition and how it has evolved. This democratic transition is defined by two foundational characteristics. First, as one of the last of the ‘anti-colonial…
South Africa: Conceptualising a Politics of Human-Oriented Development
This article reflects on what needs to be done for a human‐oriented development agenda in South Africa? It investigates the broader structural political condition, especially the configuration of power, under which human‐oriented development occurs. It does this by first analysing the diverse academic literature on democracy and development with a view to drawing out the political lessons from comparative development experiences. These are then a…
Academic freedom, institutional autonomy and the corporatised university in contemporary South Africa1
This article examines threats from the state, institutional bureaucrats and academics themselves to academic freedom and to the institutional autonomy of universities in South Africa, and argues that the situation is more complex than is often perceived. The generally disappointing post-independence history of academic freedom and autonomy in Sub-Saharan Africa is drawn upon to illustrate the perils that may accompany too eager an embrace of the …
Speaking 'Truth' to All Forms of Power: Reflections on the Role of the Public Sociologist in South Africa
The political and socioeconomic transformations across the globe in the last two decades make it necessary for public sociologists to bring their collective accumulated knowledge and methodological skills to an engagement with subalterns on the political strategy appropriate to this historical epoch. They must recognize that subaltern groups have insights into their subjugation, and solutions to transcend it. Public sociologists must deploy their…
Patterns of Giving in South Africa
This paper reflects on the results of a national quantitative survey on giving in South Africa. It explores the extent and character of giving; who gives, to whom, with what intention? The survey results revealed that South Africa is richly resourced with a diverse and multicultural spectrum of giving behaviors, which are commonplace in everyday life. The spectrum of giving behaviors is so diverse in shape and form that it contradicts many of the…
State-Civil Society Relations in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Adam Habib State-Civil Society Relations in PostApartheid South Africa Thebasictwinexpectations ofgovernmentare thatNGOswillfirstly, continue to act as monitors of the public good and safeguard the interests ofthe disadvantaged sections of society. Thisperformance of this social watch role requires both transparency and account ability on the part ofNGOs. Thegovernment's second expectation is that NGOs will assist in expanding access to social a…
The Politics of Decentralisation and Donor Funding in South Africa's Rural Water Sector
Decentralisation appeals to actors across the political spectrum and has become a cornerstone of development orthodoxy. Although the new South African government has adopted a range of policies that promote decentralisation, competing tendencies toward centralisation have become increasingly evident. This article examines how donors have supported decentralisation in South Africa, how they have affected the implementation of decentralisation poli…
Party disintegrations & re‐alignments in post‐apartheid South Africa
In June 2000, at a scenic game park near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, a group of academics, journalists and politicians got together under the auspices of the Politics department at Rhodes University to discuss the fate of and the prospects for opposition politics in post apartheid South Africa. In the midst of the two-day conference, word came through that the Democratic Party (DP) and New National Party (NNP) had just cemented a pact and es…
Political Alliances and Parliamentary Opposition Post-Apartheid South Africa
2001). Political Alliances and Parliamentary Opposition Post-Apartheid South Africa. Democratization: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 207-226
The institutional crisis of the University of the Transkei
The principal thesis of this article is that the University of the Transkei's (UNITRA's) institutional crisis can best be understood as a product of the dialectical interplay of structural and agential variables. The primary structural factor informing this crisis is UNITRA's location in the institutional landscape of higher education - a location that confines it to servicing financially poor and academically disadvantaged students. Agential var…
Economic Policy and Power Relations in South Africa's Transition to Democracy
Parliamentary opposition & democratic consolidation in South Africa
We print below a contribution which argues the need for an effective electoral opposition in South Africa that is class and policy‐based rather than racially conceived. It can be linked both to recent articles on shifts in the ANC's policies and economic strategy (Saul, Gall, and Adams, all in Review 72 of 1997, McDonald in 75, and Padayachee, and Hall, in 76 — both 1998), and to earlier Debates pieces on the relationship between nationalism and …
South Africa: Anti-Apartheid NGOs in Transition
Under apartheid, there were an ever-increasing number of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) concerned about challenging the South African state and furthering a nonracial democratic society. In the 1990s, with the transition to an African National Congress-led democratic government, these organizations underwent profound changes. This article describes the key dynamics of this process, outlines the challenges currently confronting the new NGO s…
Parliamentary opposition & democratic consolidation in South Africa
We print below a contribution which argues the need for an effective electoral opposition in South Africa that is class and policy‐based rather than racially conceived. It can be linked both to recent articles on shifts in the ANC's policies and economic strategy (Saul, Gall, and Adams, all in Review 72 of 1997, McDonald in 75, and Padayachee, and Hall, in 76 — both 1998), and to earlier Debates pieces on the relationship between nationalism and …
Projecting Peace in Apartheid South Africa
This article analyzes what it meant to pursue “peace” in apartheid South Africa, and shows that a clear and coherent strategy of achieving “peace with justice” was pursued —in the 1980s—by a network of non‐governmental organizations which were seeking to build a non‐racial democratic South Africa by building the future in the present. This approach added to the orthodox repertoire of non‐cooperation anddefiance, and played a crucial role in makin…
Afrique du Sud: Pouvoir, Politique Et Stratégie Économique Dans La Transition Démocratique
Padayachee Vishu, Habib Adam. Afrique du Sud : pouvoir, politique et stratégie économique dans la transition démocratique. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 40, n°159, 1999. Afrique du Sud : les débats de la transition, sous la direction de Jean Copans et Roger Meunier. pp. 499-529
Election ‘99: Was there a ‘coloured’ and ‘Indian’ vote
In the Run‐up to the 1999 elections, both academia and the media assumed that there would be a ‘coloured’ and ‘Indian’ vote. This article challenges this assumption through a disaggregation of the election results. It illustrates an electoral heterogeneity within these communities with various classes voting in different ways. Moreover, the article demonstrates that lower income coloured and indian people were more reluctant to vote for the ANC w…
South Africa and the global order: The structural conditioning of a transition to democracy
From pluralism to corporatism: South Africa's labour relations in transition
This article focuses on how and why South Africa's model of labour relations changed in the course of the country's transition to democracy. It discusses and categorises the differing models of labour relations in the 1980s and 1990s within the backdrop of a review of some of the theoretical literature on forms of interest representation. Thereafter, it discusses how corporatism, and its institutions and processes, evolved in South Africa. Finall…
Labour Relations in Transition: The Rise of Corporatism in South Africa's Automobile Industry
The ownership, management, and supervision of South Africa's automobile industry has since its inception been overwhelmingly white. It was also highly oppressive in that the foremen, armed with powers of hiring, promotion, and dismissal, ruled the shopfloor with grim determination. Black workers, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, increasingly confronted these labour relations practices with collective industrial action that sometimes made enterp…
Economic Policy and Power Relations in South Africa's Transition to Democracy
South Africa: Anti-Apartheid NGOs in Transition
Under apartheid, there were an ever-increasing number of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) concerned about challenging the South African state and furthering a nonracial democratic society. In the 1990s, with the transition to an African National Congress-led democratic government, these organizations underwent profound changes. This article describes the key dynamics of this process, outlines the challenges currently confronting the new NGO s…
Political Alliances and Parliamentary Opposition Post-Apartheid South Africa
2001). Political Alliances and Parliamentary Opposition Post-Apartheid South Africa. Democratization: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 207-226
South Africa's foreign policy: Hegemonic Aspirations, Neoliberal Orientations and Global Transformation
South Africa's contemporary foreign policy cannot be understood outside an explanation of its post-apartheid political transition. Its actors, the ideas they express, the interests they represent and the institutions they craft are all crucially influenced and impacted upon by the democratic transition and how it has evolved. This democratic transition is defined by two foundational characteristics. First, as one of the last of the ‘anti-colonial…
State-Civil Society Relations in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Adam Habib State-Civil Society Relations in PostApartheid South Africa Thebasictwinexpectations ofgovernmentare thatNGOswillfirstly, continue to act as monitors of the public good and safeguard the interests ofthe disadvantaged sections of society. Thisperformance of this social watch role requires both transparency and account ability on the part ofNGOs. Thegovernment's second expectation is that NGOs will assist in expanding access to social a…
Academic freedom, institutional autonomy and the corporatised university in contemporary South Africa1
This article examines threats from the state, institutional bureaucrats and academics themselves to academic freedom and to the institutional autonomy of universities in South Africa, and argues that the situation is more complex than is often perceived. The generally disappointing post-independence history of academic freedom and autonomy in Sub-Saharan Africa is drawn upon to illustrate the perils that may accompany too eager an embrace of the …
Election ‘99: Was there a ‘coloured’ and ‘Indian’ vote
In the Run‐up to the 1999 elections, both academia and the media assumed that there would be a ‘coloured’ and ‘Indian’ vote. This article challenges this assumption through a disaggregation of the election results. It illustrates an electoral heterogeneity within these communities with various classes voting in different ways. Moreover, the article demonstrates that lower income coloured and indian people were more reluctant to vote for the ANC w…
Democratization and Parliamentary Opposition in Contemporary South Africa: The 2009 National and Provincial Elections in Perspective
South Africa's 2009 elections were characterized by an increase in electoral participation in terms of registered voters and actual numbers of voters, a resurgence of support for the opposition, and a realignment within the opposition bloc in favour of the Democratic Alliance and the Congress of the People. In addition, the vote share of the governing African National Congress declined nationally for the first time since 1994, with the party also…
Patterns of Giving in South Africa
This paper reflects on the results of a national quantitative survey on giving in South Africa. It explores the extent and character of giving; who gives, to whom, with what intention? The survey results revealed that South Africa is richly resourced with a diverse and multicultural spectrum of giving behaviors, which are commonplace in everyday life. The spectrum of giving behaviors is so diverse in shape and form that it contradicts many of the…
Parliamentary opposition & democratic consolidation in South Africa
We print below a contribution which argues the need for an effective electoral opposition in South Africa that is class and policy‐based rather than racially conceived. It can be linked both to recent articles on shifts in the ANC's policies and economic strategy (Saul, Gall, and Adams, all in Review 72 of 1997, McDonald in 75, and Padayachee, and Hall, in 76 — both 1998), and to earlier Debates pieces on the relationship between nationalism and …
From pluralism to corporatism: South Africa's labour relations in transition
This article focuses on how and why South Africa's model of labour relations changed in the course of the country's transition to democracy. It discusses and categorises the differing models of labour relations in the 1980s and 1990s within the backdrop of a review of some of the theoretical literature on forms of interest representation. Thereafter, it discusses how corporatism, and its institutions and processes, evolved in South Africa. Finall…
South Africa: Conceptualising a Politics of Human-Oriented Development
This article reflects on what needs to be done for a human‐oriented development agenda in South Africa? It investigates the broader structural political condition, especially the configuration of power, under which human‐oriented development occurs. It does this by first analysing the diverse academic literature on democracy and development with a view to drawing out the political lessons from comparative development experiences. These are then a…
Transcending the Past and Reimagining the Future of the South African University
Leading and managing any university is a challenging task in the 21st century, but undertaking this responsibility in a developing world context like South Africa, where the managerial and strategic challenges tend to be more acute, is an even more onerous one. Although there have been significant changes and massive state intervention in the last 20 years, South Africa’s post-apartheid higher education lags behind many of its counterparts in oth…
The Politics of Decentralisation and Donor Funding in South Africa's Rural Water Sector
Decentralisation appeals to actors across the political spectrum and has become a cornerstone of development orthodoxy. Although the new South African government has adopted a range of policies that promote decentralisation, competing tendencies toward centralisation have become increasingly evident. This article examines how donors have supported decentralisation in South Africa, how they have affected the implementation of decentralisation poli…
The institutional crisis of the University of the Transkei
The principal thesis of this article is that the University of the Transkei's (UNITRA's) institutional crisis can best be understood as a product of the dialectical interplay of structural and agential variables. The primary structural factor informing this crisis is UNITRA's location in the institutional landscape of higher education - a location that confines it to servicing financially poor and academically disadvantaged students. Agential var…
South Africa and the global order: The structural conditioning of a transition to democracy
Labour Relations in Transition: The Rise of Corporatism in South Africa's Automobile Industry
The ownership, management, and supervision of South Africa's automobile industry has since its inception been overwhelmingly white. It was also highly oppressive in that the foremen, armed with powers of hiring, promotion, and dismissal, ruled the shopfloor with grim determination. Black workers, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, increasingly confronted these labour relations practices with collective industrial action that sometimes made enterp…
Speaking 'Truth' to All Forms of Power: Reflections on the Role of the Public Sociologist in South Africa
The political and socioeconomic transformations across the globe in the last two decades make it necessary for public sociologists to bring their collective accumulated knowledge and methodological skills to an engagement with subalterns on the political strategy appropriate to this historical epoch. They must recognize that subaltern groups have insights into their subjugation, and solutions to transcend it. Public sociologists must deploy their…
Introduction: Regional powers in contest and engagement: making sense of international relations in a globalised world
Party disintegrations & re‐alignments in post‐apartheid South Africa
In June 2000, at a scenic game park near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, a group of academics, journalists and politicians got together under the auspices of the Politics department at Rhodes University to discuss the fate of and the prospects for opposition politics in post apartheid South Africa. In the midst of the two-day conference, word came through that the Democratic Party (DP) and New National Party (NNP) had just cemented a pact and es…
Projecting Peace in Apartheid South Africa
This article analyzes what it meant to pursue “peace” in apartheid South Africa, and shows that a clear and coherent strategy of achieving “peace with justice” was pursued —in the 1980s—by a network of non‐governmental organizations which were seeking to build a non‐racial democratic South Africa by building the future in the present. This approach added to the orthodox repertoire of non‐cooperation anddefiance, and played a crucial role in makin…
Cosatu and the Democratic Transition in South Africa: Drifting Towards Corporatism
From pluralism to corporatism: South Africa's labour relations in transition
This article focuses on how and why South Africa's model of labour relations changed in the course of the country's transition to democracy. It discusses and categorises the differing models of labour relations in the 1980s and 1990s within the backdrop of a review of some of the theoretical literature on forms of interest representation. Thereafter, it discusses how corporatism, and its institutions and processes, evolved in South Africa. Finall…
Labour Relations in Transition: The Rise of Corporatism in South Africa's Automobile Industry
The ownership, management, and supervision of South Africa's automobile industry has since its inception been overwhelmingly white. It was also highly oppressive in that the foremen, armed with powers of hiring, promotion, and dismissal, ruled the shopfloor with grim determination. Black workers, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, increasingly confronted these labour relations practices with collective industrial action that sometimes made enterp…
South Africa and the global order: The structural conditioning of a transition to democracy
Parliamentary opposition & democratic consolidation in South Africa
We print below a contribution which argues the need for an effective electoral opposition in South Africa that is class and policy‐based rather than racially conceived. It can be linked both to recent articles on shifts in the ANC's policies and economic strategy (Saul, Gall, and Adams, all in Review 72 of 1997, McDonald in 75, and Padayachee, and Hall, in 76 — both 1998), and to earlier Debates pieces on the relationship between nationalism and …
South Africa: Anti-Apartheid NGOs in Transition
Under apartheid, there were an ever-increasing number of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) concerned about challenging the South African state and furthering a nonracial democratic society. In the 1990s, with the transition to an African National Congress-led democratic government, these organizations underwent profound changes. This article describes the key dynamics of this process, outlines the challenges currently confronting the new NGO s…
Parliamentary opposition & democratic consolidation in South Africa
We print below a contribution which argues the need for an effective electoral opposition in South Africa that is class and policy‐based rather than racially conceived. It can be linked both to recent articles on shifts in the ANC's policies and economic strategy (Saul, Gall, and Adams, all in Review 72 of 1997, McDonald in 75, and Padayachee, and Hall, in 76 — both 1998), and to earlier Debates pieces on the relationship between nationalism and …
Projecting Peace in Apartheid South Africa
This article analyzes what it meant to pursue “peace” in apartheid South Africa, and shows that a clear and coherent strategy of achieving “peace with justice” was pursued —in the 1980s—by a network of non‐governmental organizations which were seeking to build a non‐racial democratic South Africa by building the future in the present. This approach added to the orthodox repertoire of non‐cooperation anddefiance, and played a crucial role in makin…
Afrique du Sud: Pouvoir, Politique Et Stratégie Économique Dans La Transition Démocratique
Padayachee Vishu, Habib Adam. Afrique du Sud : pouvoir, politique et stratégie économique dans la transition démocratique. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 40, n°159, 1999. Afrique du Sud : les débats de la transition, sous la direction de Jean Copans et Roger Meunier. pp. 499-529
Election ‘99: Was there a ‘coloured’ and ‘Indian’ vote
In the Run‐up to the 1999 elections, both academia and the media assumed that there would be a ‘coloured’ and ‘Indian’ vote. This article challenges this assumption through a disaggregation of the election results. It illustrates an electoral heterogeneity within these communities with various classes voting in different ways. Moreover, the article demonstrates that lower income coloured and indian people were more reluctant to vote for the ANC w…
Economic Policy and Power Relations in South Africa's Transition to Democracy
Political Alliances and Parliamentary Opposition Post-Apartheid South Africa
2001). Political Alliances and Parliamentary Opposition Post-Apartheid South Africa. Democratization: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 207-226
The institutional crisis of the University of the Transkei
The principal thesis of this article is that the University of the Transkei's (UNITRA's) institutional crisis can best be understood as a product of the dialectical interplay of structural and agential variables. The primary structural factor informing this crisis is UNITRA's location in the institutional landscape of higher education - a location that confines it to servicing financially poor and academically disadvantaged students. Agential var…
Party disintegrations & re‐alignments in post‐apartheid South Africa
In June 2000, at a scenic game park near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, a group of academics, journalists and politicians got together under the auspices of the Politics department at Rhodes University to discuss the fate of and the prospects for opposition politics in post apartheid South Africa. In the midst of the two-day conference, word came through that the Democratic Party (DP) and New National Party (NNP) had just cemented a pact and es…
The Politics of Decentralisation and Donor Funding in South Africa's Rural Water Sector
Decentralisation appeals to actors across the political spectrum and has become a cornerstone of development orthodoxy. Although the new South African government has adopted a range of policies that promote decentralisation, competing tendencies toward centralisation have become increasingly evident. This article examines how donors have supported decentralisation in South Africa, how they have affected the implementation of decentralisation poli…
Patterns of Giving in South Africa
This paper reflects on the results of a national quantitative survey on giving in South Africa. It explores the extent and character of giving; who gives, to whom, with what intention? The survey results revealed that South Africa is richly resourced with a diverse and multicultural spectrum of giving behaviors, which are commonplace in everyday life. The spectrum of giving behaviors is so diverse in shape and form that it contradicts many of the…
State-Civil Society Relations in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Adam Habib State-Civil Society Relations in PostApartheid South Africa Thebasictwinexpectations ofgovernmentare thatNGOswillfirstly, continue to act as monitors of the public good and safeguard the interests ofthe disadvantaged sections of society. Thisperformance of this social watch role requires both transparency and account ability on the part ofNGOs. Thegovernment's second expectation is that NGOs will assist in expanding access to social a…
South Africa: Conceptualising a Politics of Human-Oriented Development
This article reflects on what needs to be done for a human‐oriented development agenda in South Africa? It investigates the broader structural political condition, especially the configuration of power, under which human‐oriented development occurs. It does this by first analysing the diverse academic literature on democracy and development with a view to drawing out the political lessons from comparative development experiences. These are then a…
Academic freedom, institutional autonomy and the corporatised university in contemporary South Africa1
This article examines threats from the state, institutional bureaucrats and academics themselves to academic freedom and to the institutional autonomy of universities in South Africa, and argues that the situation is more complex than is often perceived. The generally disappointing post-independence history of academic freedom and autonomy in Sub-Saharan Africa is drawn upon to illustrate the perils that may accompany too eager an embrace of the …
Speaking 'Truth' to All Forms of Power: Reflections on the Role of the Public Sociologist in South Africa
The political and socioeconomic transformations across the globe in the last two decades make it necessary for public sociologists to bring their collective accumulated knowledge and methodological skills to an engagement with subalterns on the political strategy appropriate to this historical epoch. They must recognize that subaltern groups have insights into their subjugation, and solutions to transcend it. Public sociologists must deploy their…
Introduction: Regional powers in contest and engagement: making sense of international relations in a globalised world
South Africa's foreign policy: Hegemonic Aspirations, Neoliberal Orientations and Global Transformation
South Africa's contemporary foreign policy cannot be understood outside an explanation of its post-apartheid political transition. Its actors, the ideas they express, the interests they represent and the institutions they craft are all crucially influenced and impacted upon by the democratic transition and how it has evolved. This democratic transition is defined by two foundational characteristics. First, as one of the last of the ‘anti-colonial…
Managing Higher Education Institutions in Contemporary South Africa: Advancing Progressive Agendas in a Neo-Liberal and Technicist World
Democratization and Parliamentary Opposition in Contemporary South Africa: The 2009 National and Provincial Elections in Perspective
South Africa's 2009 elections were characterized by an increase in electoral participation in terms of registered voters and actual numbers of voters, a resurgence of support for the opposition, and a realignment within the opposition bloc in favour of the Democratic Alliance and the Congress of the People. In addition, the vote share of the governing African National Congress declined nationally for the first time since 1994, with the party also…
South Africa's Suspended Revolution: Hopes and Prospects
Political science (26 works) · Law (19 works) · Politics (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political economy (17 works) · Economics (15 works) · Development economics (13 works) · Democracy (12 works) · Law (11 works) · South African History and Culture (10 works)