Researching coal-affected communities

Coal mining and burning are a major driver of environmental inequality in South Africa. Suchinequality is evident in the poor’s exposure to toxic pollution, in the lack of universal access tocritical resources such as clean water and air, the land, clean, affordable energy, and theirvulnerability to the extreme weather events, such as droughts, heat waves, […]

Popular Politics in South Africa

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; attitudes to and experiences of electoral and representative politics; changing ‘movement landscapes’; and corruption. Investigating the changing movement landscape in South Africa is a key part of understanding how popular politics is being shaped.

Overview – Land Labour Life

This research cluster is in the process of being shaped and developed. It will bring together different strands of the current, ongoing and future research of different members of the SWOP community whose work focuses on different aspects of wage labour and its place in the development and history of capitalism; poverty; unemployment; the changing nature […]