Remains of the Social : Desiring the Post-Apartheid / Maurits van Bever Donker, Ross Truscott, Gary Minkley, Premesh Lalu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Donker, Maurits van Bever, editor.

Truscott, Ross, editor.

Minkley, Gary, editor.

Lalu, Premesh, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg Wits University Press 2017

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what 'the social' might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as 'the post-apartheid social'. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of South Africa between 1948 and 1994 and foregrounds the tension between the weight of lived experience that was and is apartheid, the structures that condition that experience, and a desire for a 'postapartheid social' (think unity through difference). Collectively, the contributors argue for a recognition of the 'the post-apartheid' as a condition that names the labour of coming to terms with the ordering principles that apartheid both set in place and foreclosed. The volume seeks to provide a sense of the terrain on which 'the post-apartheid' - as a desire for a difference that is not apartheid's difference - unfolds, falters and is worked through.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781776140381

OCLC:

986539762

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access