Limits to liberation after apartheid : citizenship, governance & culture

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Author:

Robins, Steven L.

ISBN:

9780852558799

9780852558782

9780821416655

9780821416662

9780864866745

Publication Information:

Oxford [England] : James Currey ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Cape Town [South Africa] : David Philip, 2005.

Physical Description:

x, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Marginalisation & citizenship in post-Apartheid South Africa / Reflections on liberalism, policulturalism & ID-ology: citizenship & difference in South Africa / The demands of recognition & the ambivalence of difference: race, culture & Afrikanerness in post-Apartheid South Africa / Traditional leaders & democracy: cultural politics in the age of globalisation / Nodal governance, denizenship & communal space: challenging the Westphalian ideal / Political inventions & interventions: a critical review of the proposed city development strategy partnership in Cape Town / 'Functional' & 'dysfunctional' communities: the making of ethical citizens / Mediating Manenberg in the post-Apartheid public sphere: media, democracy & citizenship in South Africa / Negotiating gender & personhood in the New South Africa: adolescent women & gangsters in Manenberg township on the Cape Flats / Refracting an elusive South African urban citizenship: problems with tracking Spaza / Coloureds don't Toyi-Toyi: gesture, constraint & identity in Cape Town / Palaces of desire: century city & the ambiguities of development

Subject Term:

Citizenship -- South Africa.

Democratization -- South Africa.

Cultural pluralism -- South Africa.

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-

South Africa -- Race relations -- Political aspects.

Added Author:

Robins, Steven L.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052346-b.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052346-d.html

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Summary

The post-apartheid public sphere in South Africa has been characterised by race tensions and distrust. Socio-economic inequalities and structural unemployment are contributing to widespread crises. In addressing the conceptual and empirical questions relating to the transition to democracy, the contributors to this volume take the questions of culture and identity seriously, drawing attention to the creative agency of citizens of the 'new' South Africa. They raise important questions concerning the limits of citizenship and procedural democracy.