New South African Review 6 : The Crisis of Inequality /

Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy. 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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Khadiagala, Gilbert M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Equality > South Africa.
Economic development > South Africa.
South Africa > Social conditions > 1994-
South Africa > Politics and government > 1994-
South Africa > Economic conditions > 1991-
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The global crisis of inequality and its South African manifestations / Devan Pillay
  • part one. Inequality and class : polarities and policies
  • Inequality in South Africa / Neva Makgetla
  • A national minimum wage in South Africa : a tool to reduce inequality? / Jana Mudronova and Gilad Isaacs
  • The politics of poverty and inequality in South Africa : connectivity, abjections and the problem of measurement / Sarah Bracking
  • The financialisation of the poor and the reproduction of inequality / David Neves
  • part two. The politics of inequality
  • Liberal democracy, inequality and the imperatives of alternative politics : Nigeria and South Africa / Samuel Oloruntoba
  • Liberalism and anti-liberalism in South Africa. Or, is an egalitarian liberalism possible? / Daryl Glaser
  • 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
  • Analysis must rise : a political economy of falling fees / Stephanie Allais
  • Education, the state and class inequality : the case for free higher education in South Africa / Enver Motala, Salim Vally and Rasigan Maharajh
  • Still waiting : the South African government's pending promise of equality for people with disabilities / Jacqui Ala and David Black
  • 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
  • Spatial defragmentation in rural South Africa : a prognosis of agrarian reforms / Samuel Kariuki
  • Mining, rural struggles and inequality on the platinum belt, South Africa / Sonwabile Mnwana
  • Challenging environmental injustice and inequality in contemporary South Africa / Jacklyn Cock
  • The geography of nuclear power, class and inequality in South Africa / Jo-Ansie van Wyk.

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