| ISBN13: | 9781032709277 |
| ISBN10: | 1032709278 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 416 pages |
| Size: | 246x174 mm |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
South African Transitions
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This book addresses the multiple repercussions of South Africa?s democratic transition beginning in 1994 by examining themes with local, national, regional, and global relevance: the politics of nation building, public memory, residential segregation, higher education, media, racism, trade unionism, women?s rights, and global climate change.
This book addresses the multiple repercussions of South Africa?s democratic transition beginning in 1994 by examining a number of themes with local, national, regional, and global relevance: the politics of nation building, public memory, residential segregation, higher education, media, racism, trade unionism, women?s rights, and global climate change, to name only a few.
Drawing from the rich archive of previously published articles from the journal Safundi, South African Transitions documents both the country?s, and the journal?s mutual history over the past quarter century. Divided into five sections, the first part of the book explores the broad theme of South Africa?s transition to non-racial democracy by foregrounding issues of nationalism, diplomacy, rural change, social trauma, historical commemoration, and political feeling at local, national, and international levels. The second section focuses on the question of civil society, including essays on media, racism, histories of segregation, legacies of criminal violence, and comparative patterns of incarceration, underscoring the endurance of certain long-term problems and the emergence of new ones. Part three surveys the role of education in transforming South Africa, while part four situates South Africa?s opportunities and challenges within regional and global contexts to better understand the South African situation and its relationship to conditions around the world. The penultimate section has contributions that confront the present by identifying the struggles and crises of South Africa?s current political moment, including labor movements, the matter of land restitution, feminist activism, LGBTQI rights, and the Marikana Massacre of 2012. The book ends with an essay on the fire at Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town by historian Bill Nasson, a moment of contingent destruction that speaks of the Covid-19 pandemic and the burgeoning climate crisis at present.
Traversing across time and place, South African Transitions will be an indispensable resource for scholars, researchers, activists and policymakers, as well as those readers who are generally interested in understanding South Africa?s social, political, and intellectual transformations over the past several decades.
Prologue Introduction 1. In Search of a Nation: Nation Building in the New South Africa (2002) 2. Walking the Gauntlet?A Daunting Forty-Five Years? Transition of Stutterheim within a South African Community, c. 1960?2005 (2009) 3. The Memory of Trauma and Resistance: Public Memorialization and Democracy in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Beyond (2010) 4. International Norms and the End of Apartheid in South Africa (2015) 5. Empathy?s echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling (2016) 6. Post-Apartheid South Africa and Mass-Mediated Deliberation (2001) 7. Privatizing Prisons from the United States to South Africa: Controlling Dangerous Africans Across the Atlantic (2002) 8. Residential Segregation in South Africa and the United States: Evaluating the Sustainability of Comparative Research (2002) 9. A ?Bloody Epidemic?: Whiteness and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa (2013) 10. The global threat of race in the decomposition of struggle (2020) 11. Academic Freedom in the New South Africa (2001) 12. Multicultural Education in the United States: Lessons for South Africa (2001) 13. The Postcolonial University: Racial Issues in South African and American Institutions (2003) 14. South Africa, Israel-Palestine, and the Contours of the Contemporary World Order: An Interview with Noam Chomsky (2004) 15. America's Africa: Barack Obama and the Aporia of Race (2007) 16. The Struggle for Zimbabwe, Then and Now: Notes Toward a Deep History of the Current Crisis (2007) 17. Unveiling the Third Force: Toward Transitional Justice in the USA and South Africa, 1973?1994 (2014) 18. Trump, Zuma, Brexit: anti-Black racism and the truth of the world (2020) 19. Globalization and Union Democracy: A Comparison of the Hormel Strike of 1985-1986 (USA) and the Volkswagen Strike of 2000 (SOUTH AFRICA) (2001) 20. Crossing Borders: A Black Feminist Approach to Researching the Comparative Histories of Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa (2003) 21. Getting Your Own Back: Land Restitution among the Oneida Indians of North America and the Tsitsikamma Mfengu of South Africa (2007) 22. The Marikana Massacre: Seeing it All (2015) 23. LGBTQI rights in South Africa (2017) 24. Fahrenheit 451 in the era of 36 °C (2021)