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The Politics of Evil - Magic, State Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa (Paperback, New)
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The Politics of Evil - Magic, State Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa (Paperback, New)
Series: African Studies
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In The Politics of Evil, Clifton Crais provides a unique
interpretation of South African history and a fresh approach to the
study of power, culture and resistance in the modern world.
Encompassing all of South Africa's history in his analysis, Crais
examines the formation of an authoritarian political order and the
complex ways people understood and resisted the colonial state. He
explores state formation as a cultural and political process as
well as a moral problem and he looks at indigenous concepts of
power, authority and evil, analysing how they shaped cross-cultural
encounters and the making of a colonial order. Apartheid
represented one of the great evils of the twentieth century. This
book reveals how the victims of apartheid understood the triumph of
this evil in their lives as they elaborated rich and at times
violent visions of a just world. Professor Crais concludes by
looking at political transition, the challenges to creating a
durable democracy and the persistence of evil in South Africa.
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