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Democracy as death : the moral order of anti-liberal politics in South Africa / / Jason Hickel



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Autore: Hickel Jason <1982-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Democracy as death : the moral order of anti-liberal politics in South Africa / / Jason Hickel Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
Disciplina: 320.968
Soggetto topico: Democracy - South Africa
Soggetto geografico: South Africa Politics and government 1994-
Soggetto non controllato: african history
african national congress
anc
anti democracy stance
colonial governance
colonialism
cultural studies
democratization
diplomacy
egalitarian values
freedom
government and governing
hierarchical social order
historical
individual freedom
internal conflict
liberal democratic platform
liberalism
migrant workers
migrants
neoliberal south africa
postcolonial studies
revolution
rural home
rural zuzuland
rural
south africa
south african history
western capitalism
western ideals
Classificazione: MI 65086
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translation and Transcription -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION. The Question of Freedom -- 1. A Divided Revolution -- 2. The Habitus of the Homestead -- 3. Urban Social Engineering and Revolutionary Consciousness -- 4. Neoliberalism as Misfortune -- 5. Death in an Age of Wild Ghosts -- 6. Colonial Nostalgias and the Reinvention of Culture -- CONCLUSION: On the Politics of Culture -- Notes -- Glossary of IsiZulu Words -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The revolution that brought the African National Congress (ANC) to power in South Africa was fractured by internal conflict.  Migrant workers from rural Zululand rejected many of the egalitarian values and policies fundamental to the ANC's liberal democratic platform and organized themselves in an attempt to sabotage the movement. This anti-democracy stance, which persists today as a direct critique of "freedom" in neoliberal South Africa, hinges on an idealized vision of the rural home and a hierarchical social order crafted in part by the technologies of colonial governance over the past century. In analyzing this conflict, Jason Hickel contributes to broad theoretical debates about liberalism and democratization in the postcolonial world. Democracy as Death interrogates the Western ideals of individual freedom and agency from the perspective of those who oppose such ideals, and questions the assumptions underpinning theories of anti-liberal movements. The book argues that both democracy and the political science that attempts to explain resistance to it presuppose a model of personhood native to Western capitalism, which may not operate cross-culturally.
Titolo autorizzato: Democracy as death  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-28423-2
0-520-95986-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787428303321
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