South Africa, settler colonialism and the failures of liberal democracy
In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the ‘extraordinary’, which includes a p...
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| description | In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the ‘extraordinary’, which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of numerous conflicts, and protests over variouspopular grievances. In this highly original work, Thiven Reddy shows how conventional approaches to understanding democratization have failed to capture the complexities of South Africa’s post-Apartheid transition. Rather, as a product of imperial expansion, the South African state, capitalism and citizen identities have been uniquely shaped by a particular mode of domination, namely settler colonialism. South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy is an important work that sheds light on the nature of modernity, democracy and the complex politics of contemporary South Africa. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-946042024-03-28T10:54:31Z South Africa, settler colonialism and the failures of liberal democracy Reddy, Thiven Politics Political development Democracy Nationalism South Africa Post-apartheid thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa::1HF Sub-Saharan Africa::1HFM Southern Africa::1HFMS Republic of South Africa In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the ‘extraordinary’, which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of numerous conflicts, and protests over variouspopular grievances. In this highly original work, Thiven Reddy shows how conventional approaches to understanding democratization have failed to capture the complexities of South Africa’s post-Apartheid transition. Rather, as a product of imperial expansion, the South African state, capitalism and citizen identities have been uniquely shaped by a particular mode of domination, namely settler colonialism. South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy is an important work that sheds light on the nature of modernity, democracy and the complex politics of contemporary South Africa. 2022-12-06T16:13:37Z 2022-12-06T16:13:37Z 2015 book ONIX_20221206_9781783602254_127 9781783602254 9781783602230 9781783602247 9781783602261 9781783602278 9781350222694 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/94604 eng Africa Now image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://bloomsbury.com/9781783602230 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-1951 The Nordic Africa Institute and Zed Books (Bloomsbury) Zed Books 10.5040/9781350222694 10.5040/9781350222694 7ee4a7c6-060a-4f97-b274-d06b79c44563 9781783602254 9781783602230 9781783602247 9781783602261 9781783602278 9781350222694 Zed Books 216 Uppsala; London open access |
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