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Domains of freedom - Justice, citizenship and social change in South Africa (Paperback)
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Domains of freedom - Justice, citizenship and social change in South Africa (Paperback)
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After 20 years of freedom in South Africa we have to ask ourselves
difficult questions: are we willing to perpetuate a lie, search for
facts or think wishfully? Freedom has been enabled by apartheid's
end, but at the same time some of apartheid's key institutions and
social relations are reproduced under the guise of 'democracy'.
This collection of essays acknowledges the enormous expectations
placed on the shoulders of the South African revolution to produce
an alternative political regime in response to apartheid and global
neo-liberalism. It does not lament the inability of South Africa's
democracy to provide deeper freedoms, or suggest that since it
hasn't this is some form of betrayal. Freedom is made possible
and/or limited by local political choices, contemporary global
conditions and the complexities of social change. This book
explores the multiplicity of spaces within which the dynamics of
social change unfold, and the complex ways in which power is
produced and reproduced. In this way, it seeks to understand the
often non-linear practices through which alternative possibilities
emerge, the lengthy and often indirect ways in which new
communities are imagined and new solidarities are built. In this
sense, this book is not a collection of hope or despair. Nor is it
a book that seeks to situate itself between these two poles.
Instead it aims to read the present historically, critically and
politically, and to offer insights into the ongoing, iterative and
often messy struggles for freedom.
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