Towards a Post-Apartheid Future
Title | Towards a Post-Apartheid Future PDF eBook |
Author | Gavin Maasdorp |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1992-06-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 134911958X |
Analyzes the political process in South Africa and the SADCC countries. The importance of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics in South Africa is discussed and political change in that country is related to the regional and international environments.
We Are the Poors
Title | We Are the Poors PDF eBook |
Author | Ashwin Desai |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2002-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1583670505 |
"We Are the Poors follows the growth of the most unexpected of these community movements, beginning in one township of Durban, linking up with community and labor struggles in other parts of the country, and coming together in massive anti-government protests at the time of the UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001. It describes from the inside how the downtrodden regain their dignity and create hope for a better future in the face of a neoliberal onslaught, and shows the human faces of the struggle against the corporate model of globalization in a Third World country."--Jacket.
Law and Sacrifice
Title | Law and Sacrifice PDF eBook |
Author | Johan Van der Walt |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2014-06-11 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1134233825 |
In the wake of apartheid, Law and Sacrifice draws on the uniquely expansive protection of fundamental rights now entrenched in the South African Constitution to outline a new theory of law. The South African Constitution not only protects the rights of people against abuses of power by the state, but also against abuses of power by private legal subjects. Drawing upon the work of contemporary thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, George Bataille, Jacques Derrida Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, the author elicits the radical democratic potential of this 'horizontal' notion of rights. Johan van der Walt argues that apartheid must be understood as more than a racist abuse of power, and here he articulates its 'sacrificial logic'. It is in going beyond this logic, he maintains, that the truly democratic potential of the South African Constitution can be understood: in a radical formal and substantive equality that offers the legal basis for rethinking a post-apartheid future. Combining a rigorous theoretical understanding with a subtle political engagement, Law and Sacrifice is a dazzling interrogation of the limits and possibilities of democratic pluralism. It will be of interest to political and legal theorists as well as to those who are concerned with South African law and politics.
Towards a Post-apartheid Future
Title | Towards a Post-apartheid Future PDF eBook |
Author | Gavin Grant Maasdorp |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780312074968 |
Media in Postapartheid South Africa
Title | Media in Postapartheid South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Sean Jacobs |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2019-05-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0253040574 |
In Media in Postapartheid South Africa, author Sean Jacobs turns to media politics and the consumption of media as a way to understand recent political developments in South Africa and their relations with the African continent and the world. Jacobs looks at how mass media define the physical and human geography of the society and what it means for comprehending changing notions of citizenship in postapartheid South Africa. Jacobs claims that the media have unprecedented control over the distribution of public goods, rights claims, and South Africa's integration into the global political economy in ways that were impossible under the state-controlled media that dominated the apartheid years. Jacobs takes a probing look at television commercials and the representation of South Africans, reality television shows and South African continental expansion, soap operas and postapartheid identity politics, and the internet as a space for reassertions and reconfigurations of identity. As South Africa becomes more integrated into the global economy, Jacobs argues that local media have more weight in shaping how consumers view these products in unexpected and consequential ways.
Imagining the Post-Apartheid State
Title | Imagining the Post-Apartheid State PDF eBook |
Author | John T. Friedman |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2011-07-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0857450913 |
In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State. By elucidating the State through a focus on the social, historical and cultural processes that help constitute it, this study helps chart new territory for anthropology, and it contributes an ethnographic perspective to a wider set of interdisciplinary debates on the State and state processes.
After Apartheid
Title | After Apartheid PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Shapiro |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2011-06-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813931010 |
Democracy came to South Africa in April 1994, when the African National Congress won a landslide victory in the first free national election in the country’s history. That definitive and peaceful transition from apartheid is often cited as a model for others to follow. The new order has since survived several transitions of ANC leadership, and it averted a potentially destabilizing constitutional crisis in 2008. Yet enormous challenges remain. Poverty and inequality are among the highest in the world. Staggering unemployment has fueled xenophobia, resulting in deadly aggression directed at refugees and migrant workers from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Violent crime rates, particularly murder and rape, remain grotesquely high. The HIV/AIDS pandemic was shockingly mishandled at the highest levels of government, and infection rates continue to be overwhelming. Despite the country’s uplifting success of hosting Africa’s first World Cup in 2010, inefficiency and corruption remain rife, infrastructure and basic services are often semifunctional, and political opposition and a free media are under pressure. In this volume, major scholars chronicle South Africa’s achievements and challenges since the transition. The contributions, all previously unpublished, represent the state of the art in the study of South African politics, economics, law, and social policy.