South Africa's Insurgent Citizens : On Dissent and the Possibility of Politics
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
178360297X
ISBN-13
9781783602971
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Zed Books Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 15th, 2015
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
282 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.50 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
SociologyDemonstrations & protest movements
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A lively and argumentative analysis of contemporary South African politics that shows how the dream of a 'rainbow nation' consensus has fractured, making space for new political possibilities to emerge.
Twenty years after South Africas first democratic election, the nations politics are more fractious than ever before. The lofty dreams of the early days of the post-apartheid era have dissolved into cynicism in the face of incessant police violence, the quashing of dissent, and the spread of corruption. To many South Africans today, politics is a failed enterprise, the preserve only of the corrupt, the self-interested, the incompetent, and the violent.
With this book, Julian Brown mounts a powerful, polemic argument against that sort of despair. Politics is alive and well in South Africaif you know where to look. Brown reveals a new kind of politics, in the streets and the courtrooms, a politics created by a new kind of citizen, one that is neither respectful nor passive, but insurgent. South African politics, Brown argues, may be fracturedbut its in those very cracks that a powerful new movement is beginning to grow.
With this book, Julian Brown mounts a powerful, polemic argument against that sort of despair. Politics is alive and well in South Africaif you know where to look. Brown reveals a new kind of politics, in the streets and the courtrooms, a politics created by a new kind of citizen, one that is neither respectful nor passive, but insurgent. South African politics, Brown argues, may be fracturedbut its in those very cracks that a powerful new movement is beginning to grow.
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