Writing the decline : on the struggle for South Africa's democracy / Richard Pithouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pithouse, Richard, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--South Africa.

Democracy.

South Africa.

South Africa--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

vii, 199 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Auckland Park : Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd, 2016.

Summary:

"There is a growing sense that the promise of democracy in South Africa has not been adequately redeemed. This book tracks the steady decay of that promise in recent years. Written from an understanding that democracy should be for everyone, rather than merely a contest between elites, it explores the growing authoritarianism of the state, the deepening social crisis, and the avenues of hope and possibility. In a moment when old certainties are breaking down, and new ideas and social forces are taking the stage, this book offers a compelling invitation to take democracy seriously."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

The May 2008 pogroms

A state of emergency for the poor

Burning message to the state in the fire of poor's rebellion

The devestation of Haiti

Eskom

Universities for bread and roses

The casual bulldozing of a Shembe temple in Durban

Revolution comes like a thief in the night

Only protected on paper

The murder of Andries Tatane

A path through the embers

The return of the English riot

On the Wall Street occupation

Locusts on the horizon

From Ramle Prison to the world

No Zunami on the streets

The third force

Climbing Jacob's ladder

The riotous underbelly of the new normal

From Delhi to Bredasdorp

The strongest of the strange (for Bradley Manning)

A hundred years of the 1913 Land Act

Promise and peril at the turn of the tide

There will be blood

The murder of Nqobile Nzuza

Nelson Mandela: the crossing

Four bodies in three weeks

On the crimson carpet

Homophobia on the march

Marikana, resolve and resilience

Marikana, Gaza, Ferguson: 'You should think of them always as armed'

After the end of our innocence

Riot police in Parliament

On not reducing racism to apartheid

Land, dignity and democracy

Rhodes must fall

Reason after liberalism

Praxis and social mobilisation

Charleston (It's not over)

They 'die there, it matters not where, nor how'

A moment of possibility for universities

As real as the smell of rain on dry earth.

ISBN:

9781431423170

1431423173

OCLC:

930010244

Publisher Number:

99968477064