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 sh...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (-)
Other Authors: Reddy, Thiven, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, England : Zed Books 2015.
Series:Africa now (Zed Books)
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009710535906719
Table of Contents:
  • 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.