Journal
DEVELOPMENT SOUTHERN AFRICA
Volume 36, Issue 6, Pages 860-873Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2019.1660859
Keywords
Resistance; dispossession; just transition; inequality; coal
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- Ford Foundation [170-0890]
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Coal mining and burning are among the most destructive activities on the planet, and a major driver of environmental inequality in South Africa. This article suggests that, despite heavy constraints, initiatives involving resistance to coal are building a 'counter-power' which challenges inequality, generates solidarity, and is potentially infused by imaginative visions of another world beyond coal. Following the 'social power' approach this vision could, with deeper connections between three sites of resistance to coal - organised labour, mining affected communities and environmental justice organisations - cohere into a vision of a 'just transition'. This could embed the anti-coal struggle in a social movement for an alternative development path to challenge deepening poverty and inequality.
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