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Affiche du document Rick Turner's Politics as the Art of the Impossible

Rick Turner's Politics as the Art of the Impossible

Daryl Glaser

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This collection revisits the work of Rick Turner, a South African political theorist, and addresses contemporary debates.Rick Turner was a South African academic and activist who rebelled against apartheid at the height of its power and was assassinated in 1978 when he was 32 years old, but his life and work are testimony to the power of philosophical thinking for humans everywhere. Turner chose to live freely in an unfree time and argued for a non-racial, socialist future in a context where this seemed unimaginable. This book considers Rick Turner’s challenge that political theorising requires thinking in a utopian way. Turner’s seminal book The Eye of the Needle: Towards a Participatory Democracy in South Africa laid out potent ideas on a radically different political and economic system. His demand was that we work to escape the limiting ideas of the present, carefully design a just future based on shared human values, and act to make it a reality, both politically and in our daily lives. The contributors to this volume engage critically with Turner’s work on race relations, his relationship with Steve Biko, his views on religion, education and gender oppression, his model of participatory democracy, and his critique of poverty and economic inequality. It’s an important contribution to contemporary thinking and activism.Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction – Michael Onyebuchi Eze, Lawrence Hamilton, Laurence Piper and Gideon van Riet Part I Rick Turner and Contemporary Black Thinkers Chapter 1 Decolonising Resistance: Political Freedom in Rick Turner and Steve Biko – Michael Onyebuchi Eze Chapter 2 Race Political Change and Liberal Critiques: Richard Turner and Sam Nolutshungu – Ayesha Omar Chapter 3 On Biko’s Turn on Turner – Tendayi Sithole Part II Turner’s Theoretical Lacunae Chapter 4 Women in the Frame: Reading Rick Turner’s Eye of the Needle through Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex – Paula Ensor Chapter 5 Poverty and Misplaced Prioritisation: Evaluating ‘Human Models’ and ‘Value Systems’ - John S Sanni Chapter 6 Should We Take Turner’s Democratic Model Seriously? – Daryl Glaser Part III Turner and Teaching Philosophy Chapter 7 Rick Turner and Teaching Critical Theory – Laurence Piper Chapter 8 The Relevance of Rick Turner’s ‘Utopian Thinking’ for a Critical Pedagogy – Crain Soudien Part IV Rick Turner and the ‘Left’ Chapter 9 Rick Turner, an Aboveground Radical – Billy Keniston Chapter 10 Radical Contingency and Turner’s Enduring Message to Relative Privilege – Gideon van Riet Part V On the Nature of Political Theory Chapter 11 Rick Turner and the Vision of Engaged Political Philosophy – Christine Hobden Chapter 12 What is the Point of Political Theory? – Lawrence Hamilton Contributors Index
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Affiche du document Go Home or Die Here

Go Home or Die Here

Tawana Kupe

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160 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h00min.
The xenophobic attacks that started in Alexandra, Johannesburg in May 2008 before quickly spreading around the country caused an outcry across the world and raised many fundamental questions: Of what profound social malaise is xenophobia – and the violence that it inspires – a symptom? Have our economic and political choices created new forms of exclusion that fuel anger and distrust? What consequences does the emergence of xenophobia hold for the idea of an equal, non-racial society as symbolised by a democratic South Africa? Go Home or Die Here hopes to make sense of the nuances and trajectories of building a democratic society out of a deeply divided and conflictual past, in the conditions of global recession, heightening inequalities and future uncertainty. The authors hoped to pose questions that would lead both to research and to more informed, reflective forms of public action. With extensive photographs by award-winning photographer Alon Skuy, who covered the violence for The Times newspaper, the volume is passionate and engaged, and aims to stimulate reflection, debate and activism among concerned members of a broad public.Foreword – Bishop Paul Verryn Introduction – Eric Worby, Shireen Hassim and Tawana Kupe Chapter 1 A Torn Narrative of Violence – Alex Eliseev Chapter 2 I Did Not Expect Such a Thing to Happen – Rolf Maruping Chapter 3 (Dis)connections: Elite and Popular ‘Common Sense’ on the Matter of ‘Foreigners’ – Daryl Glaser Chapter 4 Xenophobia in Alexandra – Noor Nieftagodien Chapter 5 Behind Xenophobia in South Africa – Poverty or Inequality? – Stephen Gelb Chapter 6 Relative Deprivation, Social Instability and Cultures of Entitlement – Devan Pillay Chapter 7 Violence, Condemnation, and the Meaning of Living in South Africa – Loren B Landau Chapter 8 Crossing Borders – David Coplan Chapter 9 Policing Xenophobia – Xenophobic Policing: A Clash of Legitimacy – Julia Hornberger Chapter 10 Housing Delivery, the Urban Crisis and Xenophobia – Melinda Silverman and Tanya Zack Chapter 11 Two Newspapers, Two Nations? The Media and the Xenophobic Violence – Anton Harber Chapter 12 Beyond Citizenship: Human Rights and Democracy – Cathi Albertyn Chapter 13 We Are Not All Like That: Race, Class and Nation after Apartheid – Andile Mngxitama Chapter 14 Brutal Inheritances: Echoes, Negrophobia and Masculinist Violence – Pumla Dineo Gqola Chapter 15 Constructing the ‘Other’: Learning from the Ivorian Example – Véronique Tadjo End Notes Author Biographies
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Affiche du document Marxisms in the 21st Century

Marxisms in the 21st Century

Jacklyn Cock

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Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)Introduction - Michelle Williams Chapter 1 Marxism and democracy: Liberal, vanguard or direct? - Michelle Williams Chapter 2 Marxism after Polanyi - Michael Burawoy Chapter 3 Transnationalising Gramscian Marxism - Vishwas Satgar Chapter 4 Notes on critique - Ahmed Veriava Chapter 5 Marxism and feminism: ‘Unhappy marriage’ or creative partnership? - Jacklyn Cock and Meg Luxton Chapter 6 Marx and the eco-logic of fossil capitalism - Devan Pillay Chapter 7 Retrospect: Seven theses about Africa’s Marxist regimes - Daryl Glaser Chapter 8 Socialism and southern Africa - John S. Saul Chapter 9 Uneven and combined Marxism within South Africa’s urban social movements - Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai and Trevor Ngwane Chapter 10 Critical reflections on the crisis and limits of ANC ‘Marxism’ 260 - Mazibuko K. Jara Conclusion - Vishwas Satgar
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Affiche du document Mbeki and After

Mbeki and After

Steven Friedman

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140 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h45min.
For nearly ten years – indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa’s new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in state and party management, economic policy, public health intervention, foreign affairs and race relations. If we wish to understand the character and fate of post-1994 South Africa, we must therefore ask: What kind of political system, economy and society has the former President bequeathed to the government of Jacob Zuma and to the citizens of South Africa generally? This question is addressed head-on here by a diverse range of analysts, commentators and participants in the political process. Amongst the specific questions they seek to answer: What is Mbeki’s legacy for patterns of inclusion and exclusion based on race, class and gender? How, if at all, did his presidency reshape relations within the state, between the state and the ruling party and between the state and society? How did he reposition South Africa on the continent and in the world? This book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the current political landscape in South Africa, and Mbeki’s role in shaping it.Chapter 1: MBEKI AND HIS LEGACY: A critical introduction DARYL GLASER Chapter 2 MBEKI’S LEGACY: Some conceptual markers PETER HUDSON Chapter 3 WHY IS THABO MBEKI A ‘NITEMARE’? MARK GEVISSER Chapter 4 MACHIAVELLI MEETS THE CONSTITUTION: Mbeki and the law RICHARD CALLAND AND CHRIS OXTOBY Chapter 5 THABO MBEKI AND DISSENT 105 JANE DUNCAN Chapter 6 CIVIL SOCIETY AND UNCIVIL GOVERNMENT: The Treatment Action Campaign versus Thabo Mbeki, 1998-2008 MARK HEYWOOD Chapter 7 SEEING OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US: Racism, technique and the Mbeki administration STEVEN FRIEDMAN Chapter 8 TOWARDS A COMMON NATIONAL IDENTITY: Did Thabo Mbeki help or hinder? EUSEBIUS MCKAISER Chapter 9 THABO MBEKI’S LEGACY OF TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY CHRIS LANDSBERG Chapter 10 THABO MBEKI AND THE GREAT FOREIGN POLICY RIDDLE PETER VALE
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Affiche du document New South African Review 6

New South African Review 6

Jacqui Ala

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188 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h21min.
Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)IINTRODUCTION The global crisis of inequality and its South African manifestations Devan Pillay PART ONE: INEQUALITY AND CLASS: POLARITIES AND POLICIES CHAPTER 1 Inequality in South Africa Neva Makgetla CHAPTER 2 A national minimum wage in South Africa: A tool to reduce inequality? - Jana Mudronova and Gilad Isaacs CHAPTER 3 The politics of poverty and inequality in South Africa: Connectivity, abjections and the problem of measurement - Sarah Bracking CHAPTER 4 The financialisation of the poor and the reproduction of inequality - David Neves PART TWO: THE POLITICS OF INEQUALITY CHAPTER 5 Liberal democracy, inequality and the imperatives of alternative politics: Nigeria and South Africa - Samuel Oloruntoba CHAPTER 6 Liberalism and anti-liberalism in South Africa. Or, is an egalitarian liberalism possible? - Daryl Glaser CHAPTER 7 Equality and inequality in South Africa. What do we actually want? And how do we get it? - Roger Southall PART THREE: SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITY CHAPTER 8 Analysis must rise: A political economy of falling fees - Stephanie Allais CHAPTER 9 Education, the state and class inequality: The case for free higher education in South Africa - Enver Motala, Salim Vally and Rasigan Maharajh CHAPTER 10 Still waiting: The South African government’s pending promise of equality for people with disabilities - Jacqui Ala and David Black CHAPTER 11 Big fish in small ponds: Changing stratification and inequalities in small towns in the Karoo region, South Africa - Doreen Atkinson PART FOUR: LAND AND ENVIRONMENT CHAPTER 12 Spatial defragmentation in rural South Africa: A prognosis of agrarian reforms - Samuel Kariuki CHAPTER 13 Mining, rural struggles and inequality on the platinum belt, South Africa - Sonwabile Mnwana CHAPTER 14 Challenging environmental injustice and inequality in contemporary South Africa - Jacklyn Cock CHAPTER 15 The geography of nuclear power, class and inequality in South Africa - Jo-Ansie van Wyk
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Affiche du document The Unresolved National Question in South Africa

The Unresolved National Question in South Africa

Edward Webster

2h37min30

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210 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h37min.
Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)Acronyms and Abbreviations Preface: Edward Webster and Karin Pampallis Introduction: Revisiting the National Question - Edward Webster and John Mawbey Part One: Key Foundational Traditions Chapter 1: Decentring the Question of Race: Critical Reflections on Colonialism of a Special Type - Jeremy Cronin and Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo Chapter 2: The African National Congress: Social Democratic Thinking and the Good Society, 1940–1962 - Robert van Niekerk Chapter 3: Oliver Tambo and the National Question - Luli Callinicos Chapter 4: The Unity Movement and the National Question - Basil Brown, Mallet Pumelele Giyose, Hamilton Petersen, Charles Thomas and Allan Zinn Chapter 5: The Africanist Turn in South African National Question Discourses - Siphamandla Zondi Part Two: Continuity and Rupture Chapter 6: Vicissitudes of the National Question: Afrikaner Style - T. Dunbar Moodie Chapter 7: Neville Alexander and the National Question - Enver Motala and Salim Vally Chapter 8: The Marxist Workers’ Tendency of the African National Congress - Martin Legassick Chapter 9: The National Question confronts the Ethnic Question - Gerhard Maré Chapter 10: Variations on a Zulu Theme - Ari Sitas Chapter 11: Black Consciousness as Nationalism of a Special Type - Xolela Mangcu Chapter 12: Postponing the National Question: Feminism and the Women’s Movement - Shireen Hassim Chapter 13: Workerists and the National Question - Alec Erwin Chapter 14: Red, Black and Gold: FOSATU, South African ‘Workerism’, Syndicalism and the Nation - Sian Byrne, Nicole Ulrich and Lucien van der Walt Chapter 15: National Democratic Revolution meets Constitutional Democracy - Daryl Glaser
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