Politics at a Distance from the State (eBook, ePUB)

Radical and African Perspectives
Redaktion: Helliker, Kirk; Walt, Lucien van der

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book helps recover society-centred, anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change that centre on a politics operating at a distance from the state, and engages theory as well as cases and texts from South Africa and Zimbabwe. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, with the addition of a new dossier on the history and voices of a century of politics at a distance from the state in South Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351170109
• Artikelnr.: 58489103

Autorenporträt

Kirk Helliker is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Rhodes University in South Africa, as well as the Director of the Unit of Zimbabwean Studies within the department. His main research interests are land reform, civil society and political transformation with particular reference to Zimbabwe. Lucien van der Walt is professor of Industrial and Economic Sociology at Rhodes University, South Africa. A prize-winning scholar, he is involved in labour education and has published and spoken widely. His main areas of research are anarchism and syndicalism, labour and left studies and history, and the political economy of neo-liberalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: at a distance from the state John Holloway 1. Politics at a
distance from the state: radical, South African and Zimbabwean praxis today
Kirk Helliker and Lucien van der Walt 2. Constructing the domain of
freedom: thinking politics at a distance from the state Michael Neocosmos
3. Back to the future: revival, relevance and route of an
anarchist/syndicalist approach for twenty-first-century left, labour and
national liberation movements Lucien van der Walt 4. Prefiguring democratic
revolution? 'Workers' control' and 'workerist' traditions of radical South
African labour, 1970-1985 Sian Byrne and Nicole Ulrich 5. Broadening
conceptions of democracy and citizenship: the subaltern histories of rural
resistance in Mpondoland and Marikana Camalita Naicker and Sarah
Bruchhausen 6. A feminist perspective on autonomism and commoning, with
reference to Zimbabwe Tarryn Alexander and Kirk Helliker 7. From Below: An
Overview of South African Politics at a Distance from the State, 1917-2015,
with Dossier of Texts Compiled and edited, with introduction, by Lucien van
der Walt