New South African review 5 : beyond Marikana / edited by Gilbert M. Khadiagala [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Khadiagala, Gilbert M., editor.

Series:

New South African review ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--South Africa.

Democracy.

Labor--South Africa.

Labor.

Police shootings--South Africa--Rustenburg.

Police shootings.

Marikana (Rustenburg, South Africa).

South Africa--Economic conditions--21st century.

South Africa.

South Africa--Economic policy.

South Africa--Foreign relations.

South Africa--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This fifth volume in the New South African Review series takes as its starting point the shock wave emanating from the events at Marikana on 16 August 2012 and how it has reverberated throughout politics and society. Some of the chapters in the volume refer directly to Marikana. In others, the infl uence of that fateful day is pervasive if not direct. Marikana has, for instance, made us look differently at the police and at how order is imposed on society. Monique Marks and David Bruce write that the massacre 'has come to hold a central place in the analysis of policing, and broader political events since 2012'. The chapters highlight a range of current concerns - political, economic and social. David Dickinson's chapter looks at the life of the poor in a township from within. In contrast, the chapter on foreign policy by Garth le Pere analyses South Africa's approach to international relations in the Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma eras. Anthony Turton's account, 'When gold mining ends' is a chilling forecast of an impending environmental catastrophe. Both Devan Pillay and Noor Nieftagodien focus attention on the left and, in different ways, ascribe its rise to a new politics in the wake of Marikana. The essays in NSAR 5: Beyond Marikana present a range of topics and perspectives of interest to general readers, but the book will also be a useful work of reference for students and researchers.

Contents:

Introduction. Political reconfigurations in the wake of Marikana / Prishani Naidoo

pt. 1. New political directions?

Reconstituting and re-imagining the left after Marikana / Noor Nieftagodien

Labour and community struggles 1994-2014 / Marcel Paret

Half full or half empty? The Numsa moments and the prospects of left revitalisation / Devan Pillay

pt. 2. Economy, ecology and labour

Introduction to Part 2 / Devan Pillay

The South African economy: the minerals-energy-finance complex redubbed? / Samantha Ashman

Between a rock and a hard place: state-business relations in the mining sector / Ross Harvey

The platinum belt strike wave: breakdown in the institutionalisation of industrial conflict / Crispen Chinguno

When gold mining ends: an environmental catastrophe for Johannesburg? / Anthony Turton

pt. 3. State and society

Introduction to Part 3 / Roger Southall

Constitutionalism: an 'unqualified human good'? / Pierre de Vos

People's parliament: Do citizens influence South Africa's legislatures? / Samantha Waterhouse

Corruption/ Ivor Sarakinsky

Marikana and the politics of public order policing / Monique Marks and David Bruce

'In December we are rich, in January we are poor': consumption, saving, stealing and insecurity in the kasi / David Dickinson

pt. 4. South Africa in the international arena

Introduction to Part 4 / Gilbert M. Khadiagala

The evolution of South Africa's foreign policy / Garth le Pere

South Africa, the BRICS and human rights: in bad company? / Karen Smith

Trading with the frenemy: how South Africa depends on African trade / Rod Alence.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2018).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

1-86814-875-0

1-86814-877-7

OCLC:

1019655724