Research Catalog

Title

Ethics, politics, inequality : new directions / edited by Bohler-Muller, Soudien, Reddy

Publication

• Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2021
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bohler-Müller, Narnia
• Soudien, Crain
• Reddy, Vasu

Description

xvii, 430 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Multi-layered inequalities and a sense of insecurity has long been the hallmark of South African life. Recently, however, the uncertainties of Covid-19 have led to greater shared experiences of vulnerability among South Africans. This volume of State of the Nation offers perspectives that may help us navigate our way through the 'new normal' in which we find ourselves. Foremost among the unavoidable political and socioeconomic interventions that will be required are interventions based on an ethics of care. Care as an essential attribute must be inserted into all of the diverse contexts that structure needs, desires and relations of power. An ethics of care requires us to reconsider relations of domination, oppression, injustice, inequality, or paternalism within the state. In a democratic post-apartheid state that confirms human connectedness, bodies matter and this knowledge must be driven by active citizenship. We are all caught up in webs of power that require of us, as individuals and as communities, the will and understanding to combat and counter poverty and inequality and thus to improve the state of the nation. The effects of poverty and inequality are as insidious as Covid-19 and render the most vulnerable even more powerless in the face of this and similar ravages. Now, more than ever, we need to prioritise an ethics of care." --

Series Statement

State of the nation

Uniform Title

State of the nation (Cape Town, South Africa)

Subject

• Equality > South Africa
• Poverty > South Africa
• Politics and government
• Economics
• Social conditions
• Equality
• Poverty
• South Africa > Politics and government > 1994-
• South Africa > Economic conditions > 1991-
• South Africa > Social conditions > 1994-
• South Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Politics, ethics and the state -- The South African political economy -- South African society -- Wellbeing and identity -- Culture -- South Africa and the world.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-8733

ISBN

• 9780796925961
• 0796925968

LCCN

2022378696

OCLC

1227273339

Title

Ethics, politics, inequality : new directions / edited by Bohler-Muller, Soudien, Reddy

Publisher

Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2021

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

State of the nation

State of the nation (Cape Town, South Africa)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bohler-Müller, Narnia, editor.

Soudien, Crain, editor.

Reddy, Vasu, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-8733