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Rethinking the South African crisis : nationalism, populism, hegemony / Gillian Hart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart, Gillian Patricia, author.
- Series:
- Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 20.
- Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Local government--South Africa.
- Local government.
- Equality--South Africa.
- Equality.
- Post-apartheid era--South Africa.
- Post-apartheid era.
- Social change--South Africa.
- Social change.
- Protest movements--South Africa.
- Protest movements.
- South Africa--Politics and government--1994-.
- South Africa.
- African National Congress--History--21st century.
- African National Congress.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 rese
- Contents:
- Contours of crisis in South Africa
- From Bredell to Marikana : the dialectics of protest and containment
- The unruly terrains of local government
- Revisiting the transition : de-nationalisation and re-nationalisation
- The unravelling of ANC hegemony : generations of populist politics
- Through the lens of passive revolution : the South African crisis revisited.
- Notes:
- "Published outside South Africa in 2014 by the University of Georgia Press [...] by arrangement with University of KwaZulu-Natal Press"--Title page verso.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780820347257
- 0820347256
- OCLC:
- 873805800
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