Julian Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1443-251X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Staking a claim
The adoption of socio-economic rights in the post-apartheid constitution has given activists new tools to influence the development of economic policy. This article examines how – in the context of inequality and deprivation – urban communities, the residents of informal settlements, and civil society litigants have used these tools to reshape post-apartheid urban housing policy ‘from below’. It argues that this model of action provides a powerfu…
Lawfare under lockdown
The Road to Soweto
This revisionary account of the Soweto Uprising of June 1976 and the decade preceding it transforms our understanding of what led to this crucial flashpoint of South Africa's history. Brown argues that far from there being "quiescence" following the Sharpeville Massacre and the suppression of African opposition movements, during which they went underground, this period was marked by experiments inresistance and attempts to develop new forms of po…
Diversity without Unity
In 2012, the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its centenary. Throughout the year, the party hosted a series of public events designed to reclaim and represent its long history of organisa
South Africa’s Insurgent Citizens
Twenty years on from South Africa’s first democratic election, the post-apartheid political order is more fractured, and more fractious, than ever before. Police violence seems the order of the day — whether in response to a protest in Ficksburg or a public meeting outside a mine in Marikana. For many, this has signalled the end of the South African dream. Politics, they declare, is the preserve of the corrupt, the self-interested, the incompeten…
Activation of persons living with HIV for treatment, the great study
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02165735, 6/13/2014
A Presumed Equality
This article uses a dispute between a school and the state in contemporary South Africa to examine the complex nature of the relationship between that state and its citizens. It argues that this relationship is best understood as a set of shifting arrangements of authority between bureaucratic institutions, political personalities, the judiciary and, most significantly, South Africa's citizens themselves. We suggest that traditional models of the…
Judges’ History
Histories are true stories, and any attempt to evaluate them must take into account both parts of that phrase. The truth of the history is paramount, and can be established by reference to documents, testimonies, and other primary sources. But the story-ness of the history - the way it narrates the events of the past, ties them together, and explains them - must also be examined. After all, every history is an interpretation, a set of claims and …
An Experiment in Confrontation
This article examines the political nature of South Africa's Black Consciousness movement through an account of the pro-Frelimo rallies organised in Durban and at the University of the North by the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) and the Black People's Convention (BPC) in September 1974. It places these rallies in the context of these organisations' adoption of confrontational and public forms of protest after 1972. These represent a …
Saso's Reluctant Embrace of Public Forms of Protest, 1968–1972
This article suggests that the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) began its life committed to a policy of non-confrontational protest and that – until 1972 – its leaders sought to prioritise strategies of negotiation over strategies of public protest. This general policy was confirmed in SASO's response to white student protests in 1968 and 1970, as well as in a series of discussion documents and General Council resolutions proposed in 1…
An Experiment in Confrontation
This article examines the political nature of South Africa's Black Consciousness movement through an account of the pro-Frelimo rallies organised in Durban and at the University of the North by the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) and the Black People's Convention (BPC) in September 1974. It places these rallies in the context of these organisations' adoption of confrontational and public forms of protest after 1972. These represent a …
Staking a claim
The adoption of socio-economic rights in the post-apartheid constitution has given activists new tools to influence the development of economic policy. This article examines how – in the context of inequality and deprivation – urban communities, the residents of informal settlements, and civil society litigants have used these tools to reshape post-apartheid urban housing policy ‘from below’. It argues that this model of action provides a powerfu…
Diversity without Unity
In 2012, the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its centenary. Throughout the year, the party hosted a series of public events designed to reclaim and represent its long history of organisa
Saso's Reluctant Embrace of Public Forms of Protest, 1968–1972
This article suggests that the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) began its life committed to a policy of non-confrontational protest and that – until 1972 – its leaders sought to prioritise strategies of negotiation over strategies of public protest. This general policy was confirmed in SASO's response to white student protests in 1968 and 1970, as well as in a series of discussion documents and General Council resolutions proposed in 1…
Judges’ History
Histories are true stories, and any attempt to evaluate them must take into account both parts of that phrase. The truth of the history is paramount, and can be established by reference to documents, testimonies, and other primary sources. But the story-ness of the history - the way it narrates the events of the past, ties them together, and explains them - must also be examined. After all, every history is an interpretation, a set of claims and …
An Experiment in Confrontation
This article examines the political nature of South Africa's Black Consciousness movement through an account of the pro-Frelimo rallies organised in Durban and at the University of the North by the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) and the Black People's Convention (BPC) in September 1974. It places these rallies in the context of these organisations' adoption of confrontational and public forms of protest after 1972. These represent a …
A Presumed Equality
This article uses a dispute between a school and the state in contemporary South Africa to examine the complex nature of the relationship between that state and its citizens. It argues that this relationship is best understood as a set of shifting arrangements of authority between bureaucratic institutions, political personalities, the judiciary and, most significantly, South Africa's citizens themselves. We suggest that traditional models of the…
South Africa’s Insurgent Citizens
Twenty years on from South Africa’s first democratic election, the post-apartheid political order is more fractured, and more fractious, than ever before. Police violence seems the order of the day — whether in response to a protest in Ficksburg or a public meeting outside a mine in Marikana. For many, this has signalled the end of the South African dream. Politics, they declare, is the preserve of the corrupt, the self-interested, the incompeten…
Activation of persons living with HIV for treatment, the great study
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02165735, 6/13/2014
The Road to Soweto
This revisionary account of the Soweto Uprising of June 1976 and the decade preceding it transforms our understanding of what led to this crucial flashpoint of South Africa's history. Brown argues that far from there being "quiescence" following the Sharpeville Massacre and the suppression of African opposition movements, during which they went underground, this period was marked by experiments inresistance and attempts to develop new forms of po…
Diversity without Unity
In 2012, the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its centenary. Throughout the year, the party hosted a series of public events designed to reclaim and represent its long history of organisa
Staking a claim
The adoption of socio-economic rights in the post-apartheid constitution has given activists new tools to influence the development of economic policy. This article examines how – in the context of inequality and deprivation – urban communities, the residents of informal settlements, and civil society litigants have used these tools to reshape post-apartheid urban housing policy ‘from below’. It argues that this model of action provides a powerfu…
Lawfare under lockdown
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · South African History and Culture (5 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)