Title: South Africa, settler colonialism and the failures of liberal 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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Democracy, South africa, politics and government, Land tenure, Political structures: democracy, Social conditions
Places: South Africa
Time periods: 1994-