Taking stock in the Kalahari: accumulation and resistance on the Southern African periphery

Jacqueline Solway

Journal of Southern African Studies, 1998, vol. 24, issue 2, 425-441

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between patterns of accumulation, the cultural forms through which change is understood and experienced, and resistance in the Kalahari, Botswana. The paper argues that contemporary forms of accumulation and social differentiation constitute a break from past forms and are resulting in an uneven process of class formation. However, these changes can be assimilated, to a large degree, within existing ideological and behavioural models so that discontinuity is not always evident. As a result the process of change is muted, and a minimum of conflict accompanies a major transformation. The social domains which do become contested are those in which structural change produces a situation in which the moral grounds of the kin‐based community are violated. The paper acknowledges the complexities of power as well as the forces of cohesion and consensus which exist simultaneously in the Kalahari and in which any analysis of resistance must be contextualized.

Date: 1998
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