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The Afrocentricity Trajectories of Looting in South Africa
The Afrocentricity Trajectories of Looting in South Africa
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Looting has become an increasingly popular concept in South Africa as an unsophisticated interpretation of ownership by “force” of property during periods of mayhem. However, looting is a complex concept whose origin spans a long history that cuts across time and space. In The Afrocentricity Trajectories of Looting in South Africa, edited by Mfundo Masuku, Dalifa Ngobese, Mbulaheni Obert Maguvhe, and Sifiso Ndlovu, contributors provide sophisticated analysis on the concept of “looting” and address nuances in the concept of looting, looking at links to spiraling inequality and poverty, racialization of property ownership, and skewed access and benefits of economic policies. As shown in this collection, looting has taken on a variety of political meanings: a challenge to the violence of racial capitalism, an alternative and accelerated path to justice, and a way to call attention to the reality of racial violence that is often ignored by the media, to name a few. This volume provides a critical analysis of looting from a multi-disciplinary approach that focuses on a combination of themes to show that looting is deeply rooted in property “ownership” and spiraling poverty and inequality that is structural in nature.
Table of Contents
Dalifa Ngobese
Chapter 2: Looting of Indigenous Knowledge Systems through Patents and Intellectual
property policies
Dina Mokgadi Mashiyane
Chapter 3: The Nexus of Land Dispossession and Food Insecurity in Contemporary South Africa: The Vicarious Consequences of Land Looting Institutionalized through the Natives Land Act 27
Mfundo Mandla Masuku, Mbongeni Shadrack Sithole and Bhekani Ngwenya
Chapter 4: Criminalising Looting and the Quest for Social Justice in Post-colonial South Africa: Perspectives from Twitter data
Kemist Shumba, Kutenda Trinos and Nirmala, D. Gopal
Chapter 5: Unemployment as an Instigator of Looting
Tawanda Majoko and Annah Dudu
Chapter 6: An Appraisal of South Africa's July Civil Unrest through the Lens of Frustration-Aggression Theory: The Case of KwaZulu-Natal Province
Methembe Mdlalose
Chapter 7: Looting and Unrest after Former President Z
Product details
| Published | Mar 20 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 1 |
| ISBN | 9781978798083 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Illustrations | 3 b/w illustrations; |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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