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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789295603321

Autore

Hart Gillian Patricia

Titolo

Rethinking the South African crisis : nationalism, populism, hegemony / / Gillian Hart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens : , : University of Georgia Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8203-4725-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Collana

Geographies of justice and social transformation ; ; 20

Disciplina

320.968

Soggetti

Local government - South Africa

Equality - South Africa

Post-apartheid era - South Africa

Social change - South Africa

Protest movements - South Africa

South Africa Politics and government 1994-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published outside South Africa in 2014 by the University of Georgia Press [...] by arrangement with University of KwaZulu-Natal Press"--Title page verso.

Nota di contenuto

Contours of crisis in South Africa -- From Bredell to Marikana : the dialectics of protest and containment -- The unruly terrains of local government -- Revisiting the transition : de-nationalisation and re-nationalisation -- The unravelling of ANC hegemony : generations of populist politics -- Through the lens of passive revolution : the South African crisis revisited.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Crisis revisits long-standing debates to shed new light on the transition from apartheid. Drawing on nearly twenty years of ethnographic rese