Exclusion, Social Capital and Citizenship: Contested Transitions in South Africa and India 1st Edition

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Historically, India and South Africa have a lot in common; the migration of indentured and passenger Indians to South Africa, the role and influence of Mahatma Gandhi in the freedom movements, their shared commitment to install democracy in their respective countries, and other such issues. Post-Independence, battling enormous poverty and inequality, these countries have undergone transitions at different points in history in their endeavour to restructure the economy and polity through political projects which are largely elite-driven. Exclusion, Social Capital and Citizenship shows how though transition always carries the promise of inclusion for social groups inhabiting the margins of society, there is nothing inherently inclusive about the elite-dominated transitions that occurred in South Africa and India. The people of these countries, therefore, have articulated alternate visions of resistance to contest these. Divided into three sections, this volume analyses whether we can use the prism of one experience to assess another in some other country and the lessons learnt from them through such contextualised comparisons. These and other methodological issues are studied in this collection. The book also describes how diasporic Indians deal with their minority status in post-apartheid South Africa; the intellectual resources that the Muslim minority groups in India employ to articulate their identity and assert their citizenship; and redress policies for groups previously disadvantaged on the basis of race in South Africa and caste in India. Bringing together sociologists from both South Africa and India, this volume is a must-read for students and scholars of sociology, diaspora studies and political science. About the Author Tina Uys is Chairperson, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Sujata Patel is Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, India.

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List of Tables, Figures and Maps Publishers’ Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: On Comparing the Contested Transitions of South Africa and India Tina Uys and Sujata Patel 1. Social Exclusion, Work and Informal Sector Jan Breman 2. Food Security and Inequality in a Community of Black South Africans Cecilia Van Zyl-Schalekamp 3. Suicides and the Making of India’s Agrarian Distress A. R. Vasavi 4. The Mapping of the Adivasi Social: Colonial Anthropology and Adivasis Bhangya Bhukya 5. Shifting Boundaries of Exclusion and Citizenship: Geographies of Power in South African Mine Compounds Andries Bezuidenhout and Sakhela Buhlungu 6. Caste and Untouchability in Rural Punjab Surinder S. Jodhka 7. A Sense of South African Indianness: Citizenship, Identity and Experiences of Exclusion at the Oriental Plaza in Johannesburg Pragna Rugunanan, Mariam Seedat-Khan and Letitia Smuts 8. Conversion to Orthodox Judaism in South Africa: Negotiating Social Inclusion within a Minority Religious Group Elli Kriel 9. Drawing Boundaries: Inclusion and Exclusion in Conversations on Social Transformation Amongst Middle-Class White South Africans Charles Puttergill 10. Competing Discourses of Citizenship: Christianity, ‘Rights’ and Citizenship in South Africa, c. 1910–40 Natasha Erlank 11. Looking Beyond Parity: Citizenship and the Gendering of Capabilities in Kerala Praveena Kodoth and Mridul Eapen 12. Urban Debates in South African Settings: Implications for Citizenship Liela Groenewald 13. Social Exclusion, Poverty and Citizenship: Micro-credit Programmes in India Anurekha Chari-Wagh 14. ‘Truth Alone Will Not Set Us Free’: Building Citizenship and Inclusivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa Janis Grobbelaar and Maxi Schoeman 15. Citizenship and Xenophobic Violence in South Africa: May and June 2008 Simon Bekker, Ilse Eigelaar-Meets and Gary Eva 16. Terrorism: The Debate on Citizenship in India’s North-East Archana Upadhyay 17. South African Sociologists and Academic Citizenship: Decline, Hibernation or a State of Alteration? Tina Uys and Bronwyn Dworzanowski-Venter 18. Building Social Capital Through State Initiative: Participatory Planning in Kerala John S. Moolakkattu and Jos Chathukulam