Handbook on Politics and Society

Edited by Shireen Hassim, Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics, Carleton University, Canada and Visiting Professor, WiSER, Wits University, South Africa and Anna C. Korteweg, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada

‘This collection is a tour de force, retaining a coherence of argument in its historically contextualised exploration of the contemporary relationship between the personal and political, played out within and across international boundaries – physical, social, definitional – and is all the more coherent because many contributors have lived through the social change they analyse.’

• ContentsIntroduction: rethinking politics and society in the age of crisis 1Shireen Hassim and Anna C. KortewegPART I LIVING IN CAPITALISM1 The re-organisation of economy, politics and gender equality in postsocialist Europe 16Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrčela2 Living with ruination: building collapse and the political economy ofmateriality in Luanda, Angola 35Claudia Gastrow3 Social reproduction and surplus populations of the agrarian south 51Lyn Ossome4 Unsettling extraction through community relations to land 68Rebecca Jane HallPART II RIGHTS REGULATION AND MOBILE SUBJECTS5 Governing the transborder mobility of workers and their labour rights: amulti-actor contest 86Rianne Mahon and Nicola Piper6 The human right to care: Latin American legal and political debates 103Laura C. Pautassi7 Bodies under scrutiny: sex testing and protecting womanhood ininternational sport 122Amanda Lock Swarr8 Enduring maritonormativity in times of marital decline: observations fromSouth Africa and the United States 145Michael W. Yarbrough9 Creating queer subjects: human rights and the adjudication of LGBTIasylum claims 166Anna C. KortewegPART III CONSTITUTING GROUPS AND CRAFTING IDENTITIES10 Thinking race and racialization in the black majority world 185Hugo ka Canham11 The haunted happiness of racialised beauty: a performative theoreticalview 201Simidele Dosekun12 Seeing elites from the South 216Antoinette Handley13 Hustling a living: crafting a life under precarious conditions in urbanSouth Africa 236Hannah J. DawsonPART IV FRAMING AND RESISTING VIOLENCE14 Genocide, femicide, and feminicide as concepts and frames in Canada andMexico: extending transnational dialogues on colonialism, the state, andgendered violence against Indigenous women and girls 256Paulina García-Del Moral15 Anti-violence activism, new feminisms, and India’s #MeToo 275Srila Roy16 Unstable solidarities: the uses and abuses of “community” in the context ofpenal violence in South Africa 292Gail Super17 Imperial ignorance and beyond: mapping the production and practices oforganized ignorance 308Christiane Wilke, Helyeh Doutaghi and Hijaab YahyaPART V RETHINKING FUTURES18 Rethinking work 326E. Fouksman19 Mobile space-times and the rescaling of political community 348Loren B. Landau20 Visiting on the mountain: how property gets in the way of Indigenoussovereignty 363Yvonne P. Sherwood and Melodi Wynne