Frequency and turmoil: South Africa's community protests 2005-2017

This article reports on the frequency and turmoil of South Africa’s community protests from 2005 to 2017, which, taken together, have been called a ‘rebellion’. It defines ‘community protest’ as protests in which collective demands are raised by a geographically defined and identified ‘community’ th...

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Vydáno v:SA crime quarterly číslo 63; s. 27 - 42
Hlavní autoři: Alexander, Peter, Runciman, Carin, Ngwane, Trevor, Moloto, Boikanyo, Mokgele, Kgothatso, Van Staden, Nicole
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Pretoria Institute for Security Studies 01.03.2018
Institute for Security Studies (Pretoria)
Témata:
Community
Criminology & Penology
Demonstrations & protests
Law
Media violence
Police community relations
Registration
Social change
Statistics
Violence
South Africa
ISSN:1991-3877, 2413-3108, 2413-3108
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Shrnutí:This article reports on the frequency and turmoil of South Africa’s community protests from 2005 to 2017, which, taken together, have been called a ‘rebellion’. It defines ‘community protest’ as protests in which collective demands are raised by a geographically defined and identified ‘community’ that frames its demands in support/and or defence of that community. It distinguishes between ‘violence’ and ‘disorder’, which has produced a novel three-way categorisation of turmoil, namely ‘orderly’, ‘disruptive’ and ‘violent’ protests. Drawing on the Centre for Social Change’s archive of media reports, the largest database of its kind, and by comparing its data with details gleaned from the police’s Incident Registration Information System (an unrivalled source of protest statistics), the article reveals a rising trend in frequency of community protests and a tendency towards those protests being disorderly, that is, disruptive and/or violent. In the process of advancing this position, the authors offer a critique of other attempts to measure the number and turmoil of community protests.
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ISSN:1991-3877
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DOI:10.17159/2413-3108/2018/v0n63a3057