{"product_id":"9781783602261","title":"South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy: Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the ‘extraordinary’, which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of numerous conflicts, and protests over various popular grievances.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this highly original work, Thiven Reddy shows how conventional approaches to understanding democratization have failed to capture the complexities of South Africa’s post-Apartheid transition. Rather, as a product of imperial expansion, the South African state, capitalism and citizen identities have been uniquely shaped by a particular mode of domination, namely settler colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouth Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e is an important work that sheds light on the nature of modernity, democracy and the complex politics of contemporary South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zed Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150061715696,"sku":"9781783602261","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781783602261_p0.jpg?v=1763723606","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781783602261","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}