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South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy (Africa Now) by Doctor Thiven Reddy is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy (Africa Now) about?

In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the extraordinary, which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of numerous conflicts, and protests over various popular grievances. In this highly original work, Thiven Reddy shows how conventional approaches to understanding democratization have failed to capture the complexities of South Africas post-Apartheid transition. Rather, as a product of imperial expansion, the South African state, capitalism and citizen identities have been uniquely shaped by a particular mode of domination, namely settler colonialism. South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy is an important work that sheds light on the nature of modernity, democracy and the complex politics of contemporary South Africa.

Who reads South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy (Africa Now)?

Author

Doctor Thiven Reddy

Publisher

Zed Books in association with the Nordic Africa Institute

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781783602230

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Social_sciences