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  title info:
    title: Re-imagining the social in South Africa
    sub title: critique, theory and post-apartheid society
  name:
    name part: Jacklin, Heather.
  name:
    name part: Vale, Peter C. J.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sa
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 308 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "As apartheid ended, why did the South African academy shift from critique to subservience? Why have common-sense explanations of the social world of South Africans replaced searching questions? Why are conversations on social issues in South Africa controlled by technology, management and, until their recent collapse, the idea of markets? Why has serious thought in the new South Africa become an indecent activity? These, and other, questions are at the heart of this book which brings social theory to bear on social practice to disrupt received conceptions and representations of the social in the post-apartheid South Africa. This subversive volume seeks to revive the tradition of intellectual argument that marked apartheid's final years. Using critical theoretical perspectives, the contributors offer explanations of narrowly focused post-apartheid discourses, and imagine different orderings of contemporary South African life. "Re-imagining the Social in South Africa" aims to revitalise thinking on twenty-first century South Africa by positioning the humanities, especially its critical spirit, at the very centre of the national conversation"--Publisher's website.
  note: edited by Heather Jacklin and Peter Vale.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-sa---
  subject:
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1994-
  subject:
    topic: Post-apartheid era
    geographic: South Africa
  subject:
    topic: Social change
    geographic: South Africa
  subject:
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1994-
  classification: HN801.A8 R45 2009
  classification: 320.968019
  identifier: 9781869141790 (pbk.)
  identifier: 1869141792 (pbk.)
  record info:
    record content source: YUS
    record creation date: 090610
    record change date: 20151201101513.0
    record identifier: in00002547020