Research Catalog

Title

New South African review 5 : beyond Marikana / edited by Gilbert M. Khadiagala, Prishani Naidoo, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall.

Publication

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Khadiagala, Gilbert M.
• Naidoo, Prishani
• Pillay, Devan
• Southall, Roger

Description

ix, 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This fifth volume in the New South African Review series takes as its starting point the shock wave emanating from the events at Marikana on 16 August 2012 and how it has reverberated throughout politics and society. Some of the chapters in the volume refer directly to Marikana. In others, the infl uence of that fateful day is pervasive if not direct. Marikana has, for instance, made us look differently at the police and at how order is imposed on society. Monique Marks and David Bruce write that the massacre 'has come to hold a central place in the analysis of policing, and broader political events since 2012 ...'.The chapters highlight a range of current concerns - political, economic and social. David Dickinson's chapter looks at the life of the poor in a township from within. In contrast, the chapter on foreign policy by Garth le Pere analyses South Africa's approach to international relations in the Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma eras. Anthony Turton's account, 'When gold mining ends' is a chilling forecast of an impending environmental catastrophe. Both Devan Pillay and Noor Nieftagodien focus attention on the left and, in different ways, ascribe its rise to a new politics in the wake of Marikana.The essays in Beyond Marikana present a range of topics and perspectives of interest to general readers, but the book will also be a useful work of reference for students and researchers.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Democracy > South Africa
• Labor > South Africa
• Police shootings > South Africa > Rustenburg
• Democracy
• Diplomatic relations
• Economic history
• Economic policy
• Labor
• Police shootings
• Politics and government
• Rustenburg (South Africa)
• South Africa > Economic conditions > 21st century
• South Africa > Economic policy
• South Africa > Foreign relations
• South Africa > Politics and government > 21st century
• South Africa
• South Africa > Rustenburg

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Political reconfigurations in the wake of Marikana / Prishani Naidoo -- pt. 1. New political directions? -- Reconstituting and re-imagining the left after Marikana / Noor Nieftagodien -- Labour and community struggles 1994-2014 / Marcel Paret -- Half full or half empty? The Numsa moments and the prospects of left revitalisation / Devan Pillay -- pt. 2. Economy, ecology and labour -- Introduction to Part 2 / Devan Pillay -- The South African economy: the minerals-energy-finance complex redubbed? / Samantha Ashman -- Between a rock and a hard place: state-business relations in the mining sector / Ross Harvey -- The platinum belt strike wave: breakdown in the institutionalisation of industrial conflict / Crispen Chinguno -- When gold mining ends: an environmental catastrophe for Johannesburg? / Anthony Turton -- pt. 3. State and society -- Introduction to Part 3 / Roger Southall -- Constitutionalism: an 'unqualified human good'? / Pierre de Vos -- People's parliament: Do citizens influence South Africa's legislatures? / Samantha Waterhouse -- Corruption/ Ivor Sarakinsky -- Marikana and the politics of public order policing / Monique Marks and David Bruce -- 'In December we are rich, in January we are poor': consumption, saving, stealing and insecurity in the kasi / David Dickinson -- pt. 4. South Africa in the international arena -- Introduction to Part 4 / Gilbert M. Khadiagala-- The evolution of South Africa's foreign policy / Garth le Pere -- South Africa, the BRICS and human rights: in bad company? / Karen Smith -- Trading with the frenemy: how South Africa depends on African trade / Rod Alence.

Call Number

ReCAP 21-4870

ISBN

• 9781868148745
• 1868148742

OCLC

928553566

Title

New South African review 5 : beyond Marikana / edited by Gilbert M. Khadiagala, Prishani Naidoo, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall.

Publisher

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: UNIV. OF THE WITWATERSRAND. DIST. BY IPG- ACADEMIC. COLLECTION OF NEW ESSAYS.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Khadiagala, Gilbert M., editor.

Naidoo, Prishani, editor.

Pillay, Devan, editor.

Southall, Roger, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 21-4870