How social movements survive: the Treatment Action Campaign and the South African state, 2009-2016
How social movements survive: the Treatment Action Campaign and the South African state, 2009-2016
This paper seeks to explain the survival of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and to identify lessons it may offer on how social movements may resist demobilisation. It considers the role the TAC plays in the creation of social accountability dynamics around primary health care but with broader implications for strengthening rights-based notions of citizenship. The paper examines the TAC"s relative success in democratising public health care provision and explores shifts in the relationship between this social movement organisation and the South African state.
CITATION: Mottiar, Shauna. How social movements survive: the Treatment Action Campaign and the South African state, 2009-2016 . Oxon : Taylor & Francis Group , 2017. Social Dynamics, Vol. 43, No. 1, April 2017, pp. 103-117 - Available at: https://library.au.int/how-social-movements-survive-treatment-action-campaign-and-south-african-state-2009-2016