Democracy as technopolitical future: delivery and discontent in a government settlement in the South African countryside

Dubbeld, Bernard

doi:10.1080/23323256.2016.1238771

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“…Most participants claimed that the elderly appreciate the CSG greatly because, as one participant described it, 'having to ask people all the time is annoying to others', as well demeaning to oneself. And similar to Dubbeld (2017), for younger women, it also means less dependence on the older generation and a corresponding increase in autonomy.…”

Section: Inter-generational Relationsmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…This may function through expanding the choices available to women in impoverished areas (Liebenberg, 2007). Gaining access to an independent income, in this case, the CSG, offers the potential to challenge a subordinate role with less economic and social power within the family and community, and therefore potentially rebalance unequal power relations (Bank, 2011;Dubbeld, 2017;Patel et al, 2015).…”

Section: Transformative Effects At Intra-household Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘That Child Support Grant Gives Me Powers’ – Exploring Social and Relational Aspects of Cash Transfers in South Africa in Times of Livelihood Change

Granlund

Hochfeld

2019

The Journal of Development Studies

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This article builds on existing literature on the material effects of cash transfers. It explores people's own perceptions of the role of unconditional cash transfers in building, maintaining, and transforming social relations in a small village in rural South Africa. Much of the literature studying the impacts of cash transfers in the global South relies on quantitative measures. Thus, there is a paucity of micro-level qualitative research on beneficiaries' own perspectives on the social impacts of cash transfers. To this end, we explored whether the Child Support Grant, a small cash transfer given to impoverished caregivers of children, changed individual and intra-household relationships, as well as community solidarity in this village. We argue that South Africa's cash transfers have largely had positive social transformative effects on individuals, in relation to a sense of dignity, autonomy and increased decision-making powers for primary caregivers, usually mothers or grandmothers. Positive effects were also perceived in relation to these households and communities, although some contested effects and limitations were also found. These findings are of interest in the ongoing broader debates around the effects of cash transfers globally as well as regionally in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Section: Inter-generational Relationsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Transformative Effects At Intra-household Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘That Child Support Grant Gives Me Powers’ – Exploring Social and Relational Aspects of Cash Transfers in South Africa in Times of Livelihood Change

Granlund

Hochfeld

2019

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…Aft er they came to power in 1994, ANC launched their fi rst socioeconomic policy framework, the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), which explicitly attended to social imbalances created by apartheid's infrastructural disparities. In fact, the project of liberation was articulated as a "techno-political project" (Dubbeld 2017) to an extent where "political authority and social expectations" happened to become "entwined with material infrastructure" (Robins and Redfi eld 2016: 145). Consequently, the fi rst democratic government undertook a major grid expansion: in 1994, it was calculated that more than 20 million people had no access to electricity (RSA 1998: 21).…”

Section: Postapartheid: Remobilization For Infrastructural Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Mögenburg

2022

Focaal

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This article explores practices of community-based energy justice activists in Johannesburg. Against the background of municipal corporatization of electricity delivery in the wake of the postapartheid state’s neoliberal policy turn, residents of the urban periphery organize to ward off cost-recovery measures and illegally (re)connect to the grid. Informed by theories of critical urban studies on the South, this article situates activists’ practices historically and discusses the limits of their strategic claims with a view to their inextricable relation to the state.

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“If He Has a Shack Like That …”: Infrastructural Labor and Possibility in Cape Town’s Informal Settlements

Storey

2021

Emergent Spaces

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Democracy as technopolitical future: delivery and discontent in a government settlement in the South African countryside

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

‘That Child Support Grant Gives Me Powers’ – Exploring Social and Relational Aspects of Cash Transfers in South Africa in Times of Livelihood Change

‘That Child Support Grant Gives Me Powers’ – Exploring Social and Relational Aspects of Cash Transfers in South Africa in Times of Livelihood Change

Entrenched provisionality

“If He Has a Shack Like That …”: Infrastructural Labor and Possibility in Cape Town’s Informal Settlements

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