Geohistory, Capitalist Development, and South Africa

Kevin R. Cox was born in England and taught at The Ohio State University for fifty years. His books include Making Human Geography (The Guilford Press, 2014) and The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception (Syracuse University Press, 2016).

• ContentsList of Figures and Tables ixPreface x1 Capitalist Development, Geohistory and the Peculiaritiesof South Africa 11 South Africa’s Peculiarity 32 Putting South Africa in Context 73 South Africa and the Global Political Economy 92 Creating ‘A Country’ 171 Introduction 172 The First Globalization and South Africa 203 An Institutional Fix for Gold 233.1 The Challenges 233.2 The Fix 253.3 Labor’s Racial Hierarchy 313 Apartheid and Giving New Life to ‘South Africa’ 381 Introduction 382 The Context 393 Apartheid 464 An Assessment 564 In the Eye of the Storm and the End of the Beginning 621 Introduction 622 From the Golden Years to the Long Downturn 653 ‘Globalization’ 714 Confronting Decolonization 775 Interregnum 845 Decolonizing South Africa: A Hiding to Nothing 911 Introduction 912 An Audit of the New South Africa 922.1 Race and Material Conditions 922.2 The Skills Problem 972.3 Transitioning the State 1033 South Africa and the International Division of Labor 107viii Contents3.1 ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Globalizations 1093.2 The Neo-liberal Project 1166 Zim- Lite? 1201 Context 1202 The Symptoms 1212.1 Infrastructural Collapse 1212.2 Social (Dis)Order 1232.3 ‘Exit’ 1263 Towards an Explanation 127References 143Index 150