Thinking freedom in Africa : toward a theory of emancipatory politics / Michael Neocosmos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neocosmos, M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961--Political and social views.

Fanon, Frantz.

Badiou, Alain--Political and social views.

Badiou, Alain.

Rancière, Jacques--Political and social views.

Rancière, Jacques.

Lazarus, Sylvain--Political and social views.

Lazarus, Sylvain.

Postcolonialism--Africa.

Postcolonialism.

Equality.

Africa--History--20th century.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 644 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Thinking Freedom in Africa

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Conceptions of the universal emancipation of humanity have, in practice, ended in failure. Marxism, anti-colonial nationalism and neo-liberalism have all understood the achievement of universal emancipation through a form of state politics. Thinking Freedom in Africa conceives an emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that 'people think'.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Politics is thought, thought is real, people think

Part 1: Thinking political sequences: From African history to African historical political sequences

1. Theoretical introduction: Understanding historical political sequences

2. From Saint-Domingue to Haiti: The politics of freedom and equality, 1791-1960

3. Are those-who-do-not-count capable of reason? On the limits of historical thought

4. The National Liberation Struggle mode of politics in Africa, 1945-1975

5. The People's Power mode of politics in South Africa, 1984-1986

6. From national emancipation to national chauvinism in South Africa, 1973-2013

7. Rethinking militancy in the current sequence: Beyond politics as agency

8. Understanding fidelity to the South African emancipatory event: The Treatment Action Campaign and Abahlali baseMjondolo

Part 2: Opening up the thought of politics in Africa today: Exceeding the limits of sociology: Beyond representation

9. Theoretical introduction: Social representation, modes of rule and political prescriptions

10. Marxism and the politics of representation: The 'agrarian question' and the limits of political economy - class, nation and the party-state

11. Thinking beyond representation, acting beyond representation: Accounting for worker subjectivities in South Africa

12. Renaming the state in Africa today

13. Domains of state politics and systemic violence: The concept of 'uncivil society'

14. The domain of civil society and its politics

15. The domain of traditional society and its politics

16. Towards a politics of solidarity: Feminist contributions

Conclusion: Reclaiming the domain of freedom

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

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ISBN:

9781868148677

186814867X

OCLC:

1090494202