![]() | Rethinking the South African Crisis: Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony Subjects: African National Congress -- History -- 21st century; Local government -- South Africa; Equality -- South Africa; Post-apartheid era -- South Africa; Social change -- South Africa; Protest movements -- South Africa; South Africa -- Politics and government; Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside "wageless life," proliferating forms of protest and populist politics that move in different directions, and official efforts at containment ranging from liberal interventions targeting specific populations to increasingly common police brutality. GILLIAN HART is a professor of geography and cochair of Development Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and Honorary Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She is the author of Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa and coeditor of Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics . |
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