Popular Politics

About

The Popular Politics programme at SWOP considers the popular and the political broadly. Popular Politics covers work on protests, the movement landscape, the shaping of political alternatives, representative politics and democracy. The programme has covered three main projects over the last five years; Movement Landscapes – focusing on deepening this concept through the study of cycles of protest since 1994 – , Mapping the Fault-lines in the Rising South – that looks at popular politics in the BRICS countries – , and Contentious Democracy – looking at the relationship between protest, electoral politics and democracy. 

People

Her research focuses on the unrest that unfolded in parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal in July 2021, looking specifically at the events in Vosloorus, Gauteng. Masego has experience

Her research focuses on the unrest that unfolded in parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal in July 2021, looking specifically at the events in Vosloorus, Gauteng. Masego has experience

Lindiwe Malindi is a PhD student based in the Department of Sociology at Wits. She is interested in questions of subjectivity and relationality, futurity, labour/work, language and

Karl von Holdt is a professor at the Society Work and Politics Institute. His current research interests include popular politics, movements, violence, the political economy of cor

Tasneem Essop is a researcher at SWOP, where she has been based since 2017. She works on the Popular Politics programme where she has conducted research on community protests as we

Langelihle Nyuswa is a Labour, economic and development sociology masters student at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where she currently resides. She was born

Projects

The work on South Africa aims to understand the complexities of democracy since 1994 through research on different cycles of protest undertaken by social and community movements; a

Events

SWOP and the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand invite you to the launch of a new book by Roger Southall, Whites and Democracy in South Africa.

A public forum with a youth delegation from Rojava who will be sharing their experiences of the revolution, democratic confederalism, building a communal economy, and the youth mov

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