Remains of the Social

Desiring the Post-apartheid

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvGary Minkley,Maurits Bever Donker,Premesh Premesh Lalu,Ross Truscott,Maurits Bever Donker

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An interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what 'the social' might mean after apartheid. Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what 'the social' might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as 'the post-apartheid social'. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of South Africa between 1948 and 1994 and foregrounds the tension between the weight of lived experience that was and is apartheid, the structures that condition that experience and a desire for a 'post-apartheid social' (think unity through difference). Collectively, the contributors argue for a recognition of the 'the post-apartheid' as a condition that names the labour of coming to terms with the ordering principles that apartheid both set in place and foreclosed. The volume seeks to provide a sense of the terrain on which 'the post-apartheid' - as a desire for a difference that is not apartheid's difference - unfolds, falters and is worked through.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-02-01
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt462 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor334
FörlagWits University Press
ISBN9781776140305

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Maurits van Bever Donker is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape. Ross Truscott is a Postdoctoral Associate in Women’s Studies at Duke University, United States. Premesh Lalu is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape. Gary Minkley holds the Chair in Social Change at the University of Fort Hare, Eastern Cape.

Introduction: Traversing the social; Maurits van Bever Donker, Ross Truscott, Premesh Lalu and Gary Minkley; 1. The Mandela Imaginary: Refl ections on post-reconciliation libidinal economy Derek Hook; 2. The ethics of precarity: Judith Butler's reluctant universalism Mari Ruti; 3. Hannah Arendt's work of mourning: The politics of loss, 'the rise of the social' and the ends of apartheid Jaco Barnard-Naude; 4. The return of empathy: Post-apartheid fellow feeling Ross Truscott; 5. Souvenir Annemarie Lawless; 6. Re-covery: Afrikaans rock, apartheid's children and the work of the cover Aidan Erasmus; 7. The graves of Dimbaza: Temporal remains Gary Minkley and Helena Pohlandt-McCormick; 8. The principle of insuffi ciency: Ethics and community at the edge of the social Maurits van Bever Donker; 9. The Trojan Horse and the becoming technical of the human Premesh Lalu.