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Domains of freedom : justice, citizenship and social change in South Africa / edited by Thembela Kepe, Melissa Levin, Bettina von Lieres ; foreword by Achille Mbembe ; afterword by Gillian Hart.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Africa--Politics and government--1994-.
- South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town, South Africa : UCT Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- After 20 years of freedom in South Africa we have to ask ourselves difficult questions: are we willing to perpetuate a lie, search for facts or think wishfully? Freedom has been enabled by apartheid's end, but at the same time some of apartheid's key institutions and social relations are reproduced under the guise of 'democracy'. This collection of essays acknowledges the enormous expectations placed on the shoulders of the South African revolution to produce an alternative political regime in response to apartheid and global neo-liberalism.
- Contents:
- Front cover
- Title page
- Imprint page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Introduction
- South Africa's transition narratives
- Freedom and equality
- Justice and social change in South Africa
- Citizenship and social change
- Overview of chapters
- References
- Justice Freedom Citizenship
- Justice: Overview
- Time and place
- Where justice begins
- Chapter 1: Land, politics and policy change in South Africa
- Land redistribution in South Africa
- Class dynamics, neoliberalism and justice in South Africa's land reform
- Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy in practice
- What questions for land redistribution?
- Chapter 2: Law and political conflict in South African land reform
- Juridification and land reform
- The Communal Land Rights Act 11 of 2004
- The Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act 15 of 2014
- Litigation among land claimants
- Chapter 3: Cui bono? A political-economy assessment of 20 years of South African freedom
- What has the government done?
- Distributional and welfare outcomes
- The relationship between government efforts and key outcomes
- Speculations and conclusions
- Chapter 4: South African housing policy overtwo decades: 1994-2014
- A challenging start to a new policy: Setting enduring themes
- Impetus for policy change
- Breaking New Ground and its mixed reception
- Looking back: Reviewing fluctuations in housing delivery
- Freedom: Overview
- Chapter 5: Freedom Park and the Voortrekker Monument: Commemorative practices between reconciliation and decolonisation
- Freedom/Reconciliation Park
- From memorials of conquest to national heritage
- References.
- Chapter 6: The paradox of trade union action in post-apartheid South Africa
- The best of times
- The worst of times
- The paradox examined
- Trade unions and the democratic transformation
- Enter globalisation
- Victims of their own successes
- What about the workers?
- Three turning points
- Chapter 7: The politics of women and gender in the ANC : Reflecting back on 20 years
- Gender and the politics of loyalty
- Women's liberation and national liberation
- The ANCWL post-1994
- Gender and the politics of Parliament
- Gender and the politics of corruption
- Chapter 8: The role of rights and litigation in assuring moreequitable access to healthcare in South Africa
- South Africa's healthcare systems
- Legal entrenchment of the right to access healthcare services
- Assessing the impact of the litigation on health equity
- Citizenship: Overview
- Chapter 9: The politics of citizenship in South Africa
- Regimes of citizenship
- Struggles for citizenship
- Chapter 10: Fire in the vineyards
- The trajectory of the 2012-2013 farm-worker strike
- Farm workers and the dynamics of agrarian change
- Insurgent citizenship and the rebellion of the rural poor
- Chapter 11: From ubuntu to Grootboom: Vernacularising human rights through restorative and distributive justice in post-apartheid South Africa
- Ubuntu as a paradigm for restorative transitional justice
- Vernacularising economic and social rights
- Chapter 12: Social protests and the exercise of citizenship in South Africa
- Democratic South Africa, 1994-2014
- The post-apartheid state in South Africa
- Service delivery, protests and the challenges of national cohesion
- Protests and the Marikana massacre.
- Marikana and the double autonomy of the state
- Service-delivery protests and the exercise of formal and substantive citizenship rights
- Understanding contemporary social protests in South Africa
- Social protests: The exercise of democratic citizenship
- Chapter 13: Migration to South Africa since 1994: Realities, policies and public attitudes
- Patterns and trends in migration
- Policy framework
- Xenophobia
- Index
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 21, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-77582-222-2
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