By Bettina von Lieres, L. Piper
Drawing on case reviews from the worldwide South, this publication explores the politics of mediated citizenship during which electorate are represented to the country via 3rd celebration intermediaries. The reports exhibit that mediation is either commonly practiced and multi-directional and that it has a huge function to play in deepening democracy within the international South.
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Mediated Citizenship: The Informal Politics of Speaking for Citizens in the Global South
Drawing on case stories from the worldwide South, this publication explores the politics of mediated citizenship within which voters are represented to the nation via 3rd get together intermediaries. The reports exhibit that mediation is either greatly practiced and multi-directional and that it has a massive function to play in deepening democracy within the worldwide South.
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Further, while there are a range of institutions, organisations and individuals that represent the community of Imizamo Yethu to the state (or conversely) in some way, whether it be local soccer tournament organisers, Christian aid organisations, churches or stateappointed Community Development Workers (CDWs), in this chapter we focus on SANCO. A key reason for this is the claim by SANCO leaders to be the legitimate representatives of the Imizamo Yethu community in general, a claim generally recognised by the local ANC, state institutions like the police and many NGOs working in the area.
Notably, at the local level SANCO is typically structured in terms of committees in every street and sometimes at a higher level called the blocks that meet 25 26 Mediating the City regularly to deal with issues at the most local of levels. This is a tradition of organising that extends back decades in ‘black African’ areas1 and gives the organisation a tremendous potential reach into communities, although not all street committees necessarily see themselves as under SANCO’s authority. Although not formally recognised in the political system of the country, SANCO is an important player in community-level politics because of its significant size and its identification with the ANC alliance comprising the ruling party, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party.
Central to this is a process of conscientisation, organisation and mobilisation that form the heart of mediation in these cases. While clearly more effective than other NGOs in building active citizenship, there are ambiguities about the extent to which members speak for themselves or reflect the views of the professionals running the NGOs. Mediating the post-national The final section includes three cases, beginning with Alex Shankland’s account in Chapter 10 of the ‘diplomatic’ engagement of representatives of indigenous societies of the Amazon in the local health councils of the Brazilian state.
