South Africa, settler colonialism and the failures of liberal democracy / / Thiven Reddy.

• Superior document: Africa now
• Author: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
• VerfasserIn: Reddy, Thiven,
• TeilnehmendeR: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
• Place / Publishing House: London, England : : Zed Books,, 2015.; [London, England] : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2021
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Africa now (Zed Books)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Notes: "Published ... in association with the Nordic Africa Institute ... Uppsala, Sweden"--Title page verso.

"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. South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy is an important work that sheds light on the nature of modernity, democracy and the complex politics of contemporary South Africa."--Page 4 of cover.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Modernity : civil society, political society and the vulnerable -- The limits of the conventional paradigm, modernity and South African democracy -- The Fanonian paradigm, settler colonialism and South African democracy -- The colonial state and settler-colonial modernism -- Nationalism, ANC and domination without hegemony -- Elites, masses and democratic change -- Crisis of the national modern : democracy, the state and ANC dominance -- Conclusion.