Rejecting Rights: Vigilantism and violence in post-apartheid South Africa

Journal Article Rejecting Rights: Vigilantism and violence in post-apartheid South Africa Get access Nicholas Rush Smith Nicholas Rush Smith * *Nicholas Rush Smith (nsmith3@ccny.cuny.edu) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York–City College. Thanks are due to Rita Abrahamsen, Nic Cheeseman, Lindsay Whitfield and two anonymous reviewers for helpful suggestions on improving the article. Thanks are also due to R.B. Bernstein, John Comaroff, Adam Dean, Yanilda Gonzalez, Sheena Greitens, Anne Holthoefer, Emma Stone Mackinnon, Lauren McCarthy, Jonathan Obert, Suzanne Scoggins, Dan Slater, Lisa Wedeen, Steven Wilkinson, Manuel Viedma, and Deborah Yashar for equally useful comments on much earlier iterations of the paper. Mxolisi Motsepe provided fantastic research assistance and translation work. Previous versions were presented at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the annual meetings of the African Studies Association and the American Political Science Association. The Social Science Research Council funded the fieldwork upon which this article is based through its International Dissertation Research Fellowship programme. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 114, Issue 456, July 2015, Pages 341–360, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adv023 Published: 01 June 2015