Brendan David Works (University of California, Berkeley)

Submitted: Fri, 24 May 1996 14:54:52 -0700 (PDT)


Brendan David Works
Ph.D. candidate

Affiliation: 
Political Science Department
University of California at Berkeley

Mail Address:  
210 Barrows Hall
Berkeley, California  94720   USA

phone:   206-325-8380
fax:     206-325-8380
email:   bworks@uclink2.berkeley.edu

I am currently writing my dissertation entitled, "Popular Opposition to
Apartheid, 1950-1990."  The emphasis is on grassroots opposition and how
it interacted with national political organizations such as the African
National Congress, the Black Consciousness Movement, Inkatha, and other
organizations. 

I also look at the government's changing strategies of counter-revolution,
with some discussion of "third force" activities.  I argue that popular
opposition only posed a significant revolutionary challenge in the years
after Soweto, because it was in this period that resistance was
articulated throughout civil society.  I argue further that this
transformation of civil society helped establish some potential
foundations for democracy in a post-apartheid South Africa.

My more general interests include the study of revolutions and social
movements, and theories of political culture.