Reworking Citizenship: Race, Gender, and Kinship in South Africa by Brady G'sell

Description: Reworking Citizenship by Brady G'sell In scenes eerily reminiscent of the apartheid era, July 2021 saw South Africas streets filled with angry crowds burning and looting shops. Some, enraged by the state of the nation, aimed to disrupt "business as usual." Others, frequently women of color, frustrated by their poverty and marginalization, crossed broken glass to collect food for hungry children. As one black woman told a reporter, reflecting on the countrys transition from the apartheid era: "We didnt get freedom. We only got democracy." Across the world, anxieties abound that wage labor regimes and state-citizen covenants are eroding. What obligations do states have to support their citizens? What meaning does citizenship itself hold?This book unpacks the broiling discontent around political belonging exposed by these and similar uprisings. Through long-term fieldwork with impoverished black African, Indian, and coloured (mixed race) South African women, Brady GSell highlights how they strive to rework political institutions that effectively exclude them. Blending intimate ethnography with rich historical analysis, her examples reveal the interrelationship between seemingly disconnected domains: citizenship, kinship, and political economy. GSell argues that womens kinship-based labor is central to ensuring the survival of modern states and imbues their citizenship with essential content, and through the notion of relational citizenship offers new imaginaries of political belonging. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Brady Gsell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gender, Womens & Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. Table of Contents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNote on LanguageIntroduction1. "In Point, it is the same as if you are alone": Kinshipping in a Kinless Space2. "You are Mothers of the Nation": Citizenship and Social Reproduction3. "She is not conscious of her maternal role": Kinshipping in the Welfare Office4. "We are mothers, we are hustlers": Kinshipping in the Community5. "Me and him we only have a child together, nothing more": Kinshipping in the Court6. "We are able to stay together as a family": Kinshipping at HomeConclusionGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex Review "Reworking Citizenship is a brilliant investigation into the relational basis of political belonging. Simultaneously a deep analysis of a particular place (a port neighborhood of Durban, South Africa) as well as a development of theories of citizenship and processes of kinship, GSell brings an anthropologists eye to history and a historians eye to anthropology."—Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Carleton College"What GSell accomplishes in this book is something that I havent seen anywhere else. She combines a magisterial command of the thicket of past and present South African laws and policies related to child support with a careful ethnography of women who have been most dependent upon and most disappointed by those systems. This work is extremely important and an absolute pleasure to read."—Lynn M. Thomas, University of Washington Details ISBN150363681X Author Brady Gsell Publisher Stanford University Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781503636811 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-08-13 Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle Race, Gender, and Kinship in South Africa Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2024-08-13 DEWEY 305.48442096 Pages 312 ISBN-10 150363681X UK Release Date 2024-08-13 Alternative 9781503639171 Illustrations 1 figure, 10 halftones, 1 map We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161759834;

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