Working time' in environmental activism
Engaging 'slow violence' in the Philippi Horticultural Area
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2187004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Michael Wingfield (0000-0002-3974-4694, Stellenbosch University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 219-230 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Southern Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2332-3264 • E-ISSN: 2332-3256 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23323256.2022.2141810 |
| OpenAlex | W4312254923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
Tracing the history of activism in post-apartheid South Africa from the Treatment Action Campaign to the Social Justice Coalition, amongst others, one is able to develop an account of various practices and strategies that have been utilised to leverage state resources and lobby support for various causes. This history of rights-based activism has provided various social movements and community-based organisations with a framework with which to engage the state and more localised bureaucratic structures like the City of Cape Town. This article, which is based on two years of ethnographic research, looks at the activist practices and strategies employed by an environmental activist organisation called the PHA Campaign, which operates in a landscape that has been characterised as neoliberal and that explicitly caters to private developers. By looking at how this organisation leveraged the acute water scarcity that threatened the Western Cape from around 2016, or what has been called the "Day Zero" water crisis, this article applies Ahmann's concept of "working time" to the South African activist landscape and examines how organisations can mobilise how a crisis is framed to their benefit
Bureaucracy · Environmental justice · Leverage (statistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scarcity · Social movement · Sociology · State (computer science · Water resources · Water scarcity · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Public Administration
Anti-Crisis
From Revolution to Rights in South Africa
War Against Ourselves
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Slow violence and toxic geographies
Rebellion of the poor
Resisting Temporal Regimes, Imagining Just Temporalities
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
Deep time and compressed time in the Anthropocene
Slow Activism in Fast Times
Day Zero', Hydraulic Citizenship and the Defence of the Commons in Cape Town
Citizenship Prepaid
Seeing Like a State
It's exhausting to create an event out of nothing
The Climate of History
Crisis and Chronicity
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |