Re-imagining the social in South Africa : critique, theory and post-apartheid society

著者

• Jacklin, Heather
• Vale, Peter C. J.

書誌事項

Re-imagining the social in South Africa : critique, theory and post-apartheid society

edited by Heather Jacklin and Peter Vale

University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

As apartheid ended, why did the South African academy shift from critique to subservience? Why have common-sense explanations of the social world of South Africans replaced searching questions? Why are conversations on social issues in South Africa controlled by technology, management and, until their recent collapse, the idea of markets? Why has serious thought in the new South Africa become an indecent activity? These, and other, questions are at the heart of this book which brings social theory to bear on social practice to disrupt received conceptions and representations of the social in the post-apartheid South Africa. This subversive volume seeks to revive the tradition of intellectual argument that marked apartheid's final years. Using critical theoretical perspectives, the contributors offer explanations of narrowly focused post-apartheid discourses, and imagine different orderings of contemporary South African life. ""Re-imagining the Social in South Africa"" aims to revitalise thinking on twenty-first century South Africa by positioning the humanities, especially its critical spirit, at the very centre of the national conversation.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB11879509
• ISBN:
  • 9781869141790
• LCCN: 2009404663
• 出版国コード: sa
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Scottsville
• ページ数/冊数: xi, 308 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HN801.A8
• 件名:
  • LCSH : South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1994-
  • LCSH : Post-apartheid era -- South Africa
  • LCSH : Social change -- South Africa
  • LCSH : South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-