South Africa, settler colonialism and the failures of liberal democracy
By: Thiven Reddy
Series: Africa now; Africa now (Zed Books)
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781783602230; 9781783602247
Subjects: Politics and government; Democracy
Description: Thiven Reddy shows how conventional approaches to understanding democratization have failed to capture the complexities of South Africa's post-Apartheid transition. Rather, as a product of imperial expansion, the South African state, capitalism and citizen identities have been uniquely shaped by a particular mode of domination, namely settler colonialism. An important work that sheds light on the nature of modernity, democracy and the complex politics of contemporary South Africa.
Notes: "Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, the Nordic Africa Institute."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Modernity: civil society, political society and the vulnerable; title: The limits of the conventional paradigm, modernity and South African democracy; title: The Fanonian paradigm, settler colonialism and South African democracy; title: The colonial state and settler-colonial modernism; title: Nationalism, ANC and domination without hegemony; title: Elites, masses and democratic change; title: Crisis of the national modern: democracy, the state and ANC dominance; title: Conclusion; title: References; title: Index.