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New South African review 6 : the crisis of inquality /

Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Its extremes of wealth and poverty undermine intensifying struggles for a better life for all. The wide-ranging essays in this sixth volume of the New South African Review demonstrate how the c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Khadiagala, Gilbert M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of tables and figures
  • Introduction
  • 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.