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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813834803321

Autore

Bond Patrick

Titolo

Elite transition : from Apartheid to neoliberalism in South Africa / / Patrick Bond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : Pluto Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78371-145-0

1-78371-144-2

Edizione

[Revised & expanded edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Classificazione

MI 65082

Disciplina

305.5/2/0968

Soggetti

Elite (Social sciences) - South Africa

South Africa Economic conditions 1991-

South Africa Politics and government 1994-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Oorspr. uitg.: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1: Power and economic discourses. Neoliberal economic constraints on liberation -- Social contract scenarios -- Part II: The ascendancy of neoliberal social policy. Rumours, dreams and promises -- The housing question -- Part III: International lessons. The World Bank as 'knowledge bank' [sic] -- Beyond neoliberalism? South Africa and global economic crisis -- Afterword : From racial to class apartheid -- Afterword to the new edition : South Africa faces it 'Faustian pact': neoliberalism, financialisation and proto-fascism.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines how the ANC went from being a force of liberation to serving the economic interests of the elite few, arguing that South Africa's largest trade union's break from the ANC offers hope for changing South Africa's political terrain despite twenty years of state-corporate corruption, growing protests, rising income inequality, and ecological destruction.