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Searching for South Africa - The new calculus of dignity (Paperback)
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Searching for South Africa - The new calculus of dignity (Paperback)
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The fifteen years from 1994 to 2009 have seen unprecedented change
in the Republic of South Africa. The contributors to Searching for
South Africa set out to test the legitimacy and utility of this
general consensus. The authors actively refuse to travel the path
of transition. Instead, they write from the articulatory cauldron
of the current social movements in South Africa to seek something
better, as well as something other, than a language of transition.
With intense and speculative critiques of sites of struggle, the
essays range in focus from the campaigns of outsourced workers at
the University of Cape Town to the 'informal high school'
Masiphumelele in the Mandela Park section of Khayelitsha; from the
Anti-Eviction Campaign to the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee;
from the Anti-Privatisation Forum to the Congress of South African
Trade Unions and the African National Congress. In each instance,
the authors attempt to trace the new calculus of dignity among the
indignant social majority. Searching for South Africa takes
seriously a critique and critical reflection of knowledge
production as writing in and on social movements in South Africa.
It raises critical questions on the economies of knowledge. Who
gets to say what, why, where and how? Who represents whom, why,
where and how? In raising these questions, the authors attempt to
understand individual and collective issues of representation,
marginalisation and omission. Searching for South Africa
articulates a struggle that is always a struggle with struggle
itself - as a concept, as a phenomenon, as an event, and as a
process. The essays function as part analysis, part manual, part
manifesto. Each essay celebrates the real and manifest capacity of
South African masses to value their own lived time through an
assertion of agency. Another form of resistance is possible!
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