Remains of the Social : : Desiring the Post-Apartheid / / Maurits van Bever Donker, Ross Truscott, Gary Minkley, Premesh Lalu.

Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what 'the social' might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as 'the post-apartheid social'. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of Sout...

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Place / Publishing House:Johannesburg : : Wits University Press,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Summary:Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what 'the social' might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as 'the post-apartheid social'. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of South Africa between 1948 and 1994 and foregrounds the tension between the weight of lived experience that was and is apartheid, the structures that condition that experience, and a desire for a 'postapartheid social' (think unity through difference). Collectively, the contributors argue for a recognition of the 'the post-apartheid' as a condition that names the labour of coming to terms with the ordering principles that apartheid both set in place and foreclosed. The volume seeks to provide a sense of the terrain on which 'the post-apartheid' - as a desire for a difference that is not apartheid's difference - unfolds, falters and is worked through.
ISBN:9781776140381
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Maurits van Bever Donker, Ross Truscott, Gary Minkley, Premesh Lalu.