Socio-economic rights in South Africa : symbols or substance? / edited by Malcolm Langford [and three others].
2014
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Title
Socio-economic rights in South Africa : symbols or substance? / edited by Malcolm Langford [and three others].
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 472 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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Introduction: Civil society and socio-economic rights / Malcolm Langford
Constitutional jurisprudence : the first and second waves / Stuart Wilson and Jackie Dugard
Socio-economic rights beyond the public-private law divide / Sandra Liebenberg
Post-apartheid social movements and legal mobilisation / Tshepo Madlingozi
Political power : social pacts, human rights, and the development agenda / Adam Habib
Rural land tenure : the potential and limits of rights-based approaches / Ben Cousins and Ruth Hall
Housing rights litigation : Grootboom and beyond / Malcolm Langford
Health rights : politics, places, and the need for "sites for rights" / Peris Jones and Nyasha Chingore
Social security rights : campaigns and courts / Beth Goldblatt and Solange Rosa
Urban basic services : rights, reality, and resistance / Jackie Dugard
Realising environmental rights : civic action, leverage, and litigation / Rachel Wynberg and David Fig
Access to information and socio-economic rights : a theory of change in practice / Kristina Bentley and Richard Calland
Gender and socio-economic rights : the case of gender-based violence and health / Liesl Gerntholtz and Jennifer MacLeod
Migrants and mobilisation around socio-economic rights / Tara Polzer Ngwato and Zaheera Jinnah
Concluding perspectives / Malcolm Langford, Jackie Dugard, Tshepo Madlingozi, and Ben Cousins.
Constitutional jurisprudence : the first and second waves / Stuart Wilson and Jackie Dugard
Socio-economic rights beyond the public-private law divide / Sandra Liebenberg
Post-apartheid social movements and legal mobilisation / Tshepo Madlingozi
Political power : social pacts, human rights, and the development agenda / Adam Habib
Rural land tenure : the potential and limits of rights-based approaches / Ben Cousins and Ruth Hall
Housing rights litigation : Grootboom and beyond / Malcolm Langford
Health rights : politics, places, and the need for "sites for rights" / Peris Jones and Nyasha Chingore
Social security rights : campaigns and courts / Beth Goldblatt and Solange Rosa
Urban basic services : rights, reality, and resistance / Jackie Dugard
Realising environmental rights : civic action, leverage, and litigation / Rachel Wynberg and David Fig
Access to information and socio-economic rights : a theory of change in practice / Kristina Bentley and Richard Calland
Gender and socio-economic rights : the case of gender-based violence and health / Liesl Gerntholtz and Jennifer MacLeod
Migrants and mobilisation around socio-economic rights / Tara Polzer Ngwato and Zaheera Jinnah
Concluding perspectives / Malcolm Langford, Jackie Dugard, Tshepo Madlingozi, and Ben Cousins.
Summary
The embrace of socio-economic rights in South Africa has featured prominently in scholarship on constitution making, legal jurisprudence and social mobilisation. But the development has attracted critics who claim that this turn to rights has not generated social transformation in practice. This book sets out to assess one part of the puzzle and asks what has been the role and impact of socio-economic strategies used by civil society actors. Focusing on a range of socio-economic rights and national trends in law and political economy, the book's authors show how socio-economic rights have influenced the development of civil society discourse and action. The evidence suggests that some strategies have achieved material and political impact but this is conditional on the nature of the claim, degree of mobilisation and alliance building, and underlying constraints.
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English
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9781139108591 (ebook)
9781107021143 (hardback)
9781107546226 (paperback)
9781107021143 (hardback)
9781107546226 (paperback)
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