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Emerging Forms of Social Action in Urban Domestic Water Supply in South Africa and Zimbabwe

机译：南非和津巴布韦城市生活供水中社会行动的新兴形式

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This paper compares and contrasts emerging forms of social action in urban domestic water supply in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Both countries represent transitional societies that are facing challenges of providing clean and safe domestic water to the black majority population, which for decades was denied basic social services because of a racist ideology. In the first instance the paper assesses whether there exists a constitutional provision that guarantees the right to water. It then turns to how that is enforced, and what happens in its absence. Lastly the paper examines whether the various interventions lead to improved access to safe water. In South Africa an awareness of the constitutional right to water backed by a supportive legislative framework, which engendered a strong sense of entitlement, caused residents to resort to the courts and direct action such as street protests. Similar initiatives were also observed in Zimbabwe. However, the absence of a conducive legal environment, and disenchantment with the state as a provider of social services, led residents to resort to self reliance in order to access water. In both countries social action was not organic –it tended to be championed if not sponsored either by civil society or party political actors. There was no evidence of improved access to safe water as a consequence of social action. The paper concludes that social action in the urban domestic water supply faces the common challenges of social mobilization in particular and social movements in general.
机译：本文比较并对比了南非和津巴布韦城市生活供水中新兴的社会行为形式。两国代表的过渡社会都面临着向黑人占多数的人口提供清洁和安全的生活用水的挑战，由于黑人的种族主义意识形态，几十年来人们一直无法获得基本的社会服务。首先，本文评估了是否存在保障水权的宪法规定。然后，它转向如何强制执行以及在不存在时会发生什么。最后，本文研究了各种干预措施是否可以改善安全饮用水的获取。在南非，人们对宪法水权的认识得到了支持性立法框架的支持，这产生了强烈的权利意识，导致居民诉诸法院并采取直接行动，例如街头抗议。在津巴布韦也观察到类似的倡议。但是，由于缺乏有利的法律​​环境，以及对作为社会服务提供者的国家的不满，导致居民不得不依靠自力更生来获得水。在这两个国家，社会行动都不是有机的，如果不由公民社会或政党政治人物发起，它往往会受到支持。没有证据表明由于社会行动而改善了获得安全水的途径。本文得出的结论是，城市生活供水中的社会行动面临着特别是社会动员和一般社会运动的共同挑战。

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