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2016
324 pages
Soft cover
Print: 978 1 77582 204 2 Web: 978 1 77582 222 6 World rights available R368.00 / $31.95 / £18.95 BISAC: POL053000
BIC: JPA
POLITICS AND SECURITY
Domains of Freedom
Justice, citizenship and social change in South Africa
Editors: T Kepe, M Levin & B von Lieres
There were enormous expectations placed on the shoulders of the South African revolution to produce an alternative political regime in response to apartheid and global neo-liberalism. That South Africa’s democracy has been unable to provide deeper freedoms is not necessarily a betrayal. Freedom is made possible and/or limited by local political choices, contemporary global conditions and the complexities of social change. Domains of Freedom explores the multiplicity of spaces within which the dynamics of social change unfold, and the complex ways in which power is produced and reproduced. In this way, it seeks to understand the often non-linear practices through which alternative possibilities emerge, the lengthy and often indirect ways in which new communities are imagined and new solidarities are built. In this sense, the essays in this book portray neither hope nor despair. Nor do they seek to situate themselves between these two poles. Instead, the book as a whole aims to read the present historically, critically and politically, and to offer insights into the ongoing, iterative and often messy struggles for freedom.
See also Development Studies, p.19
State, governance and development
in Africa
Editors: F Khan, E Grundling, G Ruiters, Z Ndevu & B Baloyi