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Book SynopsisIn Challenging Inequality in South Africa: Transitional Compasses leading scholars of South Africa explore creative possibilities to challenge structures of economic, social and political power that produce inequality. Through concrete empirical examples of movements, workers' struggles, initiatives, and politics in challenging inequality, the authors illustrate transitional compasses' that go beyond protest politics to a generative' politics, a politics of building the alternatives in the interstitial spaces of capitalism. The conceptual framing is oriented around the way in which power is produced and reproduced through intricate relationships between hegemonic projects and everyday life. While power underpins all social relations, it is often taken for granted, as it is frequently hidden behind other social relations. Resistance to power emerges through engendering counter-hegemonic projects that are intertwined with alternative everyday practices. The authors highlight sources o
Table of Contents
1. Transitional Compass: anti-capitalist pathways in the interstitial spaces of capitalism
Michelle Williams and Vishwas Satgar
2. New dawn or end of labour?: from South Africa’s East Rand to Ekurhuleni
Edward Webster and Thomas Englert
3. The transformative power of civil society in South Africa: an activist’s perspective on innovative forms of organizing and rights-based practices
Mark Heywood
4. Climate and food inequality: the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign response
Vishwas Satgar and Jane Cherry
5. Democracy as a transitional compass: women’s participation in South Africa and Kerala, India
Michelle Williams
6. The crisis of waged work and the option of a universal basic income grant for South Africa
Hein Marais
7. Happiness, wellbeing and ecosocialism – a radical humanist Perspective
Devan Pillay
