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Accepted Paper:

NGO´s, land social movements and the idea of grounded civil society in South Africa  
Marcelo Rosa (University of Brasília)

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Paper short abstract:

This paper addresses de juxtaposition between NGO officials and social movements activists in the land conflicts mediation in the province of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa

Paper long abstract:

There is a historical linkage between land social movements and NGOs in South Africa. The literature points to the fact that due to apartheid constraints the non-governmental organisations were the only institutional form able to act in a legitimate way to represent rural residents during from the 1960 decade. After the end of racist regime the NGOs and social movements coexisted sometimes collaborating or conflicting over the same cases and communities. In this paper we analyse this conflicts and collaborations among Landless People´s Movement activists, NGO, State officials and political parties from 2005 to 2012.

Panel BH24
Politics and social mobilization: contemporary insights in the relations among governments, states and civil societies in Africa and Latin America
  Session 1 Thursday 8 August, 2013, -