@article{b1d0296dabf345b2861d86f4a892176b,
title = "Exploring police-protester interactions",
keywords = "Interaction, Policing, Protest, Resistance, South Africa",
author = "Nick Malherbe and Sarah Day and Josephine Cornell and Mohamed Seedat and Shahnaaz Suffla",
note = "Funding Information: Our study relies on video footage data of a protest that was undertaken by members of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) in the City of Cape Town, South Africa. Founded in 1987 through the merger of five workers{\textquoteright} unions, SAMWU is a trade union representing workers who are directly or indirectly employed by local authorities in the private, public, or voluntary sector, including water and sanitation, road construction and storm water drainage, parks and recreation, and health and social services (Barchiesi, 2001). It is now the largest trade union representing workers in the South African local government sector. SAMWU has a membership of approximately 150,000 people and is affiliated with both the Public Services International and the Congress of African Trade Unions (COSATU). SAMWU is known for its historic “reputation for entrenched grassroots radicalism” (Barchiesi, 2001, p. 385). The video footage analyzed here was filmed at a SAMWU march that occurred on May 6, 2015. The march saw SAMWU members walking to the Cape Town Civic Centre to submit to the mayor of the City of Cape Town (CoCT) a memorandum of grievances, which included the lack of permanent jobs, pregnant firefighters losing pay, and racism within the workplace. The march was supported by the Tripartite Alliance, which includes the African National Congress (the ruling party in the country), COSATU, and the South African Communist Party. Cape Town is the capital city of the Western Cape, the only province in the country that is governed by the Democratic Alliance, a center-right political opposition party. This filled the protest with a particular kind of politicized tension. The march was part of a broader SAMWU workers{\textquoteright} strike that started on May 4, 2015 and involved approximately 6,000 workers. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 American Psychological Association.",
year = "2020",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1037/pac0000441",
language = "English",
volume = "26",
pages = "236--246",
journal = "Peace and Conflict",
issn = "1078-1919",
publisher = "American Psychological Association",
number = "3",
}