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Democracy as Death: The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa

Democracy as Death: The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jason HickelPublish date:2015-02-25Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520284234ISBN-10:520284232UPC:9780520284234Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Political ProcessBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCXYNXHRY8
The revolution that brought the African National Congress (ANC) to power in South Africa was fractured by internal conflict. Migrant workers from rural Zululand rejected many of the egalitarian values and policies fundamental to the ANC's liberal democratic platform and organized themselves in an attempt to sabotage the movement. This anti-democracy stance, which persists today as a direct critique of "freedom" in neoliberal South Africa, hinges on an idealized vision of the rural home and a hierarchical social order crafted in part by the technologies of colonial governance over the past century.

In analyzing this conflict, Jason Hickel contributes to broad theoretical debates about liberalism and democratization in the postcolonial world. Democracy as Death interrogates the Western ideals of individual freedom and agency from the perspective of those who oppose such ideals, and questions the assumptions underpinning theories of anti-liberal movements. The book argues that both democracy and the political science that attempts to explain resistance to it presuppose a model of personhood native to Western capitalism, which may not operate cross-culturally.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520284234ISBN-10:520284232UPC:9780520284234Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Political ProcessBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCXYNXHRY8
Jason Hickel is Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics. He is coeditor of the book Ekhaya: The Politics of Home in KwaZulu-Natal.
Publisher: University of California Press

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