South Africa, settler colonialism and the failures of liberal democracy /
Thiven Reddy shows how conventional approaches to understanding democratization have failed to capture the complexities of South Africa's post-Apartheid transition. Rather, as a product of imperial expansion, the South African state, capitalism and citizen identities have been uniquely shaped b...
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London :
Zed Books : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,
[2015]
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| Series: | Africa now (Zed Books)
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Modernity: civil society, political society and the vulnerable
- The limits of the conventional paradigm,modernity and South African democracy
- The Fanonian paradigm, settler colonialism and South African democracy
- The colonial state and settler-colonial modernism
- Nationalism, ANC and domination without hegemony
- Elites, masses and democratic change
- Crisis of the national modern: democracy, the state and ANC dominance
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.