Democracy as Death : The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa /

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"The revolution that brought the African National Congress (ANC) to power in South Africa was fractured by internal conflict. Migrant workers from rural Zululand rejected many of the egalitarian values and policies fundamental to the ANC's liberal democratic platform and organized themselv...

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Main Author: Hickel, Jason, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politics and government.
Democracy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Democracy > South Africa.
South Africa.
South Africa > Politics and government > 1994-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the question of freedom
  • A divided revolution
  • The habitus of the homestead
  • Urban social engineering and revolutionary consciousness
  • Neoliberalism as misfortune
  • Death in an age of wild ghosts
  • Colonial nostalgias and the reinvention of culture
  • Conclusion: on the politics of culture.

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