Feminist mobilization and the politics of rights

Luders, Joseph E.

doi:10.1017/cbo9781316337790.008

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“…Why and how did this happen? In the theoretical section, it was argued that massive protests are more likely to be influential when they are accompanied by a supportive and attentive public opinion (Luders, 2016). This argument seems to hold more effectively in cases of student mobilizations that occur in young democracies, wherein students are accepted as a legitimate political actor (see Altbach, 1991).…”

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“…Drawing on the current social movement literature that emphasizes the role played by an attentive and supportive public opinion as crucial to explaining movement success (Burstein, 1999; Luders, 2016), I contended that this argument is only relatively applicable to the South African case, where the political specificity of the post-apartheid context played an even greater role. Building on Altbach’s idea of the political centrality of students in ‘young’ democracies (1991), I showed that the 2015 student mobilizations were successful as they undermined the mainstream narrative of the post-apartheid liberation and of its ‘most successful kids’ (i.e.…”

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“…Sociological literature assessing the political success of protest has highlighted the presence of supportive and attentive public opinion as key (Burstein, 1999; Luders, 2016). According to Burstein’s theory of democratic representation (1999), the most important conditions determining the victory or defeat of a mobilization are in fact favourable public opinion and a high level of public attention on the targeted issue.…”

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“…A government would never consent to implement policies that are not likely to win widespread acceptance across society (namely, the voters), as their implementation may cause the loss of a significant portion of public support. In short, protests ‘are highly likely to succeed if public opinion is both supportive and attentive or fail if the reverse is true’ (Luders, 2016: 189).…”

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Disrupting the neoliberal university in South Africa: The #FeesMustFall movement in 2015

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2019

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This article analyses the 2015 student mobilizations in South Africa (SA), which arose in opposition to a 10% hike in tuition fees planned for 2016 at the University of Witwatersrand (WITS) and spurred a massive student reaction across all the universities of the country. After only 10 days of mobilization, the protest, also known as #FeesMustFall by virtue of the most popular Twitter hashtag associated with it, succeeded in halting the hike. How and why did the protesters win? To answer this question, this study combined various qualitative methods of analysis. The author carried out in-depth interviews with all the relevant actors involved in the issue, and analysed documents relating to the movement elaborated by the students in the year of the protest (2015), as well as the main policy documents on higher education in post-apartheid South Africa (1994–2016) released by the government. The author argues that massive and disruptive student protests play a crucial role in ‘young’ democracies, as is the case of today’s South Africa, in which higher education is still considered an important societal issue, and university-level students a legitimate political actor. Where students are perceived as a legitimate element of the political system, it is more likely for them to have an impact on society.

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Disrupting the neoliberal university in South Africa: The #FeesMustFall movement in 2015

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2019

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“…In this respect, the literature on social movement outcomes has increasingly shifted focus on the targets of protest. These works look at both state (Luders, 2006, 2016; Skrentny, 2006) and non-state targets (Balsiger, 2016; King, 2016; King and Pearce, 2010). This literature has shown that we should not only study who participates in politics and why but also how the targets of interest organizations, that is, policy-makers perceive them.…”

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