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
Summary
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
Notes
"Published outside South Africa in 2014 by the University of Georgia Press ... by arrangement with University of KwaZulu-Natal Press"--Title page verso
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-254) and index
