Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet
unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of
the world: intensifying inequality alongside “wageless life,”
proliferating forms of protest and populist politics that move in
different directions, and official efforts at containment ranging
from liberal interventions targeting specific populations to
increasingly common police brutality. Rethinking the South African
Crisis revisits long-standing debates to shed new light on the
transition from apartheid. Drawing on nearly twenty years of
ethnographic research, Hart argues that local government has become
the key site of contradictions. Local practices, conflicts, and
struggles in the arenas of everyday life feed into and are shaped
by simultaneous processes of de-nationalization and
re-nationalization. Together they are key to understanding the
erosion of African National Congress hegemony and the proliferation
of populist politics. This book provides an innovative analysis of
the ongoing, unstable, and unresolved crisis in South Africa today.
It also suggests how Antonio Gramsci’s concept of passive
revolution, adapted and translated for present circumstances with
the help of Martinique-born French psychiatrist and philosopher
Frantz Fanon, can do useful analytical and political work in South
Africa and beyond.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation |
| Release date: |
April 2014 |
| Firstpublished: |
March 2014 |
| Authors: |
Gillian Hart
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
280 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8203-4717-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-8203-4717-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780820347172 |
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