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Ethics, politics, inequality : new directions

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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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
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