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The politics of death in anti-colonial praxis / Gregory Maxaulane.
Van Pelt Library BD443.9.S6 M39 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maxaulane, Gregory, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Political aspects--South Africa.
- Death.
- Decolonization.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- South Africa--Politics and government.
- South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- x, 239 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2025]
- Summary:
- "This book examines the political economy of death within the Black experience in South Africa by theorizing death as a productive and generative process, reconstructing an understanding of the limitations of dominant discourses, and giving rise to a radical political imagination"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Role of Marxian ideology in the politics of the transition in South Africa
- 'Black impasses' to the hegemonic logic of liberal democratic constitutionalism
- The dialectics of death and the problem of the political
- An analysis of the conditions for revolution and freedom in Biko's theory of Black Consciousness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Maxaulane, Gregory. Politics of death in anti-colonial praxis
- ISBN:
- 9781666972566
- 1666972568
- OCLC:
- 1463766950
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