Rethinking the South African Crisis Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside "wageless life," proliferating forms of protest and populist politics that move in different directions, and o...

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Main Author: Hart, Gillian Patricia
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ga University of Georgia Press 2014
Edition:1
Series:Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
Subjects:
1994
21st century
Africa
African National Congress
African National Congress > History > 21st century
Equality
Equality > South Africa
HISTORY
Human Geography
Human Rights
Local government
Local government > South Africa
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Politics and government
Population Studies
Post-apartheid era
Post-apartheid era > South Africa
Protest movements
Protest movements > South Africa
Republic of South Africa
Social change
Social change > South Africa
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sociology
South
South Africa
South Africa > Politics and government > 1994
ISBN:9780820347172, 0820347175, 0820347167, 9780820347165, 9780820347257, 0820347256
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Summary:Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside "wageless life," proliferating forms of protest and populist politics that move in different directions, and official efforts at containment ranging from liberal interventions targeting specific populations to increasingly common police brutality. Rethinking the South African Crisisrevisits long-standing debates to shed new light on the transition from apartheid. Drawing on nearly twenty years of ethnographic research, Hart argues that local government has become the key site of contradictions. Local practices, conflicts, and struggles in the arenas of everyday life feed into and are shaped by simultaneous processes of de-nationalization and re-nationalization. Together they are key to understanding the erosion of African National Congress hegemony and the proliferation of populist politics. This book provides an innovative analysis of the ongoing, unstable, and unresolved crisis in South Africa today. It also suggests how Antonio Gramsci's concept of passive revolution, adapted and translated for present circumstances with the help of philosopher and liberation activist Frantz Fanon, can do useful analytical and political work in South Africa and beyond.
Bibliography:"Published outside South Africa in 2014 by the University of Georgia Press ... by arrangement with University of KwaZulu-Natal Press"--T.p. verso
Includes index
Selected bibliography: p. 243-254
ISBN:9780820347172
0820347175
0820347167
9780820347165
9780820347257
0820347256
DOI:10.2307/j.ctt175736p