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Record Nr.

UNINA9910637798503321

Autore

Reddy Thiven

Titolo

South Africa, settler colonialism and the failures of liberal democracy / / Thiven Reddy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-350-22269-0

1-78360-225-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Africa now

Classificazione

MI 65086

Disciplina

909

Soggetti

Democracy - South Africa

Land tenure - South Africa

Political structures: democracy

South Africa Politics and government 1994-

South Africa Social conditions 1994-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published ... in association with the Nordic Africa Institute ... Uppsala, Sweden"--Title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-205) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Modernity : civil society, political society and the vulnerable -- The limits of the conventional paradigm, modernity and South African democracy -- The Fanonian paradigm, settler colonialism and South African democracy -- The colonial state and settler-colonial modernism -- Nationalism, ANC and domination without hegemony -- Elites, masses and democratic change -- Crisis of the national modern : democracy, the state and ANC dominance -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--Page 4 of cover.