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Politics and society in South Africa : a critical introduction / Daryl Glaser.
LIBRA JQ1981 .G487 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glaser, Daryl.
- Series:
- Sage politics texts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations.
- Political culture.
- South Africa--Politics and government.
- South Africa.
- Politics and government.
- Political culture--South Africa.
- South Africa--Race relations--Political aspects.
- Democracy--South Africa.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 278 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2001.
- Summary:
- Providing a wide-ranging and critical introduction to contemporary South Africa, this book uses an interdisciplinary lens to introduce the student to the main debates, historical context, and issues that have characterized the study of South Africa over the last three decades. Key topics include: the role of colonialism, capitalism and modernity in the formation of the racial order; changes in the South African state; questions of class, race and ehtnicity; black resistance; and the transition to democracy. A number of underlying debates are critically evaluated. For exmple, the contribution of materialist and class-analytic approaches, the application of post-structuralism and theories of modernity, and the prospects for democratic liberalism and socialism in post-apartheid South Africa.
- Contents:
- 1 Colonialism and the Racial Order 5
- Unmasking the racial order 5
- The question of colonial origins 6
- Colonialism and white post-colonial domination 27
- Colonialism in post-apartheid perspective 30
- 2 Capitalism and Racial Domination 32
- The revisionist challenge 32
- The terms of debate 35
- The key capitalist sectors 42
- Capitalist economic growth and racial domination 55
- Capitalism and the racial order after apartheid 56
- 3 Modernity and Racial Oppression 59
- The question of South Africa's 'modernity' 59
- Modernity in South African history 61
- A critique 63
- Modernity and reconstruction 67
- 4 South African States 70
- Delimiting the state 70
- State formation in Southern Africa 71
- The South African state 1910-89 75
- The state in transition 108
- 5 The Continuing Significance of Class 110
- The appearance of class 110
- Approaching class 112
- Social differentiation 113
- The makings of an urban working class 117
- The dominant classes in history 118
- Bourgeoisie and proletariat? 119
- Class boundaries/boundary classes 120
- Class solidarities/divided classes 122
- Class and Marxist materialism 125
- The continuing significance of class? 129
- 6 South African Ethnicities 132
- The significance of ethnicity as a topic 132
- Ethnic discourse in South Africa 133
- Defining race and ethnicity 135
- The formation of ethnicities 138
- The pull of ethnicity 143
- Ethnicity, class, gender 151
- The contemporary importance of ethnicity 152
- Accommodating ethnicity 157
- 7 Narratives of Resistance 161
- Ways of seeing 'the struggle' 161
- 'Primary' resistance 162
- Internal resistance in the twentieth century 166
- Currents and discourses 175
- The social bases of resistance 181
- Sites of resistance 185
- Narratives of resistance 194
- The significance of resistance 196
- 8 The Dynamics of Transition 200
- Explaining a 'miracle' 200
- Terminal apartheid 201
- Structure, agency and the negotiated demise of apartheid 202
- Turning points 211
- The prognosis for liberal democracy 214
- Deeper democracy? 230.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [236]-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761950168
- 0761950176
- OCLC:
- 43419570
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