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08 avril 2020
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EAN13
9781788926829
Langue
English
The very first book ever written investigating grassroots literacy in the context of Asbestos Activism in South Africa
This book examines how asbestos activists living in remote rural villages in South Africa activated metropolitan resources of representation at the grassroots level in a quest for justice and restitution for the catastrophic effects on their lives caused by the asbestos industry. It follows the Asbestos Interest Group (AIG) over a fifteen-year period through its involvement in grassroots research, in legal cases and in the compensation systems for asbestos-related disease. It examines how the AIG became grassroots technicians of translocal paperwork, moving texts back and forth between periphery and center, pushing documents through the textual mazeways of the courts, medical institutions, the compensation system and various government agencies. The book addresses rhetorical mobility and the extent to which, given the AIG’s position on the periphery, it has been able to enter the voices and interests of villagers into formerly inaccessible forums of deliberation and decision-making.
Introduction: Circumstances, Motives, Methods, and Theories
Chapter 1. On the Periphery: Life and Literacy in the Kuruman District
Chapter 2. Asbestos Mining in the Written Record: A Brief History
Chapter 3. The Emergence of Asbestos Activism: From the ‘Period of Non-Awareness’ to the National Asbestos Summit of 1998
Chapter 4. Grassroots Activism and the Mobility of Documents: The Formation of the AIG
Chapter 5. Insurgent Lawfare and Form-Made Persons: From Asbestos Related-Disease Sufferers to Plaintiffs
Chapter 6. 'The Lawyer Stole the Money': The Political Economy of Compensation
Conclusion: Grassroots Activism, Popular Participation, and Contextual Spaces
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Date de parution
08 avril 2020
Nombre de lectures
0
EAN13
9781788926829
Langue
English
