Legal consciousness and dissent: The formal and informal regulation of foreign shopkeepers in South Africa
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Muchos comerciantes extranjeros han abierto pequeños negocios en los barrios de los townships sudafricanos desde la llegada de la democracia en 1994. A lo largo de los años se han enfrentado a la animadversión de los comerciantes sudafricanos de la competencia, muchos de los cuales han incitado a ataques xenófobos, y se han movilizado para frenar sus negocios. Este artículo se basa en una investigación de campo sobre los comerciantes somalíes de Ciudad del Cabo para comprender la conciencia jurídica de las partes implicadas en los esfuerzos reguladores para restringir el pequeño comercio extranjero. Se constata que la regulación a nivel local refleja una narrativa “paralela al derecho”, mientras que los acontecimientos a nivel nacional reflejan la narrativa del “colectivismo disidente” de Halliday y Bronwyn Morgan (2013). Sin embargo, en este caso, los partidos tenían como objetivo leyes progresistas que protegían a los grupos vulnerables en lugar de leyes que favorecían a la élite, y la disidencia a menudo implicaba cooperación con el Estado en lugar de oposición a él. Por lo tanto, la acción contrahegemónica puede manifestarse de forma diferente en contextos de creciente populismo y debilitamiento de la adhesión a los principios y valores de los derechos humanos.
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