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This article examines Pentecostal architecture as an expression and apparatus of "Pentecostal power." Referencing the "new" auditorium of the Deeper Christian Life Ministries in Gbagada, Lagos, the article analyzes the "architecturations"—expressions, materializations, and activations through iconic Pentecostal buildings—of Pentecostalism's spatial, political, corporeal, symbolic, and economic power. This article coins and develops the concept of architecturations of Pentecostal power by predominantly undergirding it with Bourdieu's conceptual tripartite of field, habitus, and capital. It contributes to embryonic sociology of Pentecostal architecture against a backdrop of its relative neglect in the literatures that have begun to recount Pentecostalism as an urban signifier.

AbstractApart from local monographs and normative texts on community participation, research on community leadership constitutes a blind spot in urban leadership, urban politics, social movements and urban studies. This article, based on case studies in post‐apartheid Johannesburg, contributes to theorizing community leadership, or informal local political leadership, by exploring Bourdieu's concepts of 'political capital' and 'double dealings'. Considering community leaders as brokers between local residents and various institutions (in South Africa, the state and the party), we examine how leaders construct their political legitimacy, both towards 'the bottom' (building and maintaining their constituencies), and towards 'the top' (seeking and sustaining recognition from fractions of the party and the state). These legitimation processes are often in tension, pulling community leaders in contradictory directions, usefully understood under Bourdieu's concept of 'double dealings'. Community leaders are required, more than formally elected political leaders, to constantly reassert their legitimacy in multiple local public arenas due to the informal nature of their mandate and the high level of political competition between them — with destructive consequences for local polity but also the potential for increased accountability to their followers. We finally reflect on the relevance of this theoretical framework, inspired by Bourdieu, beyond South African urban politics.

International audience ; Apart from local monographs and normative texts on community participation, research on community leadership constitutes a blind spot in urban leadership, urban politics, social movements and urban studies. This article, based on case studies in post-apartheid Johannesburg, contributes to theorizing community leadership, or informal local political leadership, by exploring Bourdieu's concepts of 'political capital' and 'double dealings'. Considering community leaders as brokers between local residents and various institutions (in South Africa, the state and the party), we examine how leaders construct their political legitimacy, both towards 'the bottom' (building and maintaining their constituencies), and towards 'the top' (seeking and sustaining recognition from fractions of the party and the state). These legitimation processes are often in tension, pulling community leaders in contradictory directions, usefully understood under Bourdieu's concept of 'double dealings'. Community leaders are required, more than formally elected political leaders, to constantly reassert their legitimacy in multiple local public arenas due to the informal nature of their mandate and the high level of political competition between them-with destructive consequences for local polity but also the potential for increased accountability to their followers. We finally reflect on the relevance of this theoretical framework, inspired by Bourdieu, beyond South African urban politics.

"With Africa as its point of reference and departure, volume II of Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms examines why and how the two concepts - radicalisms and conservatisms - should not be taken as mere binaries around which to organize knowledge. It demonstrates that these concepts have multiple and diverse meanings as perceived and understood from different disciplinary vantage points, hence, the deliberate pluralization of the terms. The essays show what happens when one juxtaposes the two concepts and how they are easily intertwined when different peoples' lived experiences of politics, pop-culture, democracy, liberalism, the environment, colonialism, migration, identities, and knowledge, etc. across the length and breadth of Africa are brought to bear on our understandings of these two particularisms"--

Preface -- List of Figures, Maps and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Muchaparara Musemwa, Obvious Katsaura and Edwin Etieyibo -- PART 1: Conservatism, Radicalism and Politics -- 1 Beyond Conservatism and Radicalism? A Decolonial Glimpse into the Post-truth World -- Madina Tlostanova -- 2 Moderating Conservatism and Radicalism in Post-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Objections and Clarifications through Conversational Thinking -- Maduka Enyimba -- 3 Politics of the Countryside after Zimbabwe's Land Reform Programme: Expectations and Demands of the Youth -- Clement Chipenda -- 4 'Not Too Young to Run' Law and Political Participation among Youths in Nigeria -- Ebenezer Babajide Ishola -- 5 'Dirty-Relevance' of Youths Culture in Nigeria's Fourth Republic Politics: A Study of Delta and Lagos States -- Jonah Uyieh -- 6 Political Opportunism: Populism as a New Political Tactic in South Africa -- Bright Nkrumah -- PART 2: Social Justice and Poverty -- 7 Social Justice and Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria -- Edwin Etieyibo -- 8 Poverty and Persons Living with Disabilities in Nigeria -- Odirin Omiegbe -- 9 Poverty and Illicit Drug Use among Youths in Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria -- Adekunle Victor Owoyomi -- 10 The Politics of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Jonathan O. Chimakonam -- 11 Informality, Marginality and the State: A Case Study of Low-Income Households in Budiriro, Harare, Zimbabwe -- Tafadzwa Chevo -- PART 3: Marginalization, Terrorism and Intolerance.

Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg offers a substantive and compelling analysis for a diverse readership interested in urban politics, community mapping and the built environment. The book draws on a critical reflection of Yeoville Studio, a research project conducted by Wits University academics from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds, together with community partners and postgraduate students. A collection of vignettes portraying people and places in Yeoville interwoven with theoretically analytical chapters, it explores the politics of community research at a neighbourhood scale in its multiple facets, and will resonate with similar contested and complex neighbourhoods across the world. The mix of analysis, vignettes, photographs, architectural design and graphics builds the discussion in engaging, rich and integrated ways, to capture the many participatory approaches taken to this city-community studio.