ABSTRACT

This chapter includes the concept of political responsibility to the case study network. It explores network actors' political responsibilities with a consideration of transformative justice. The chapter addresses the political responsibilities of actors associated with the Housing Assembly and the Poor People's Alliance in regard to the opportunities for and threats to effective collaboration. The Housing Assembly and Poor People's Alliance clusters within the network are found to display higher levels of political responsibility than other areas of the network. However, shortcomings in these clusters' fulfilment of their political responsibilities are also highlighted. Transformative justice and politically responsible networked action are synergistic processes. The chapter suggests that within the case study network, potential exists for the pursuit of a transformative agenda, principally through the facilitation of transformative justice as a process. Agenda setting and strategy building cross over to some degree with the division of political arenas.