{"product_id":"9781783602988","title":"South Africa's Insurgent Citizens: On Dissent and the Possibility of Politics","description":"\u003cbr\u003eTwenty years after South Africa’s first democratic election, the nation’s politics are more fractious than ever before. The lofty dreams of the early days of the post-apartheid era have dissolved into cynicism in the face of incessant police violence, the quashing of dissent, and the spread of corruption. To many South Africans today, politics is a failed enterprise, the preserve only of the corrupt, the self-interested, the incompetent, and the violent.\u003cp\u003eWith this book, Julian Brown mounts a powerful, polemic argument against that sort of despair. Politics is alive and well in South Africa—if you know where to look. Brown reveals a new kind of politics, in the streets and the courtrooms, a politics created by a new kind of citizen, one that is neither respectful nor passive, but insurgent. South African politics, Brown argues, may be fractured—but it’s in those very cracks that a powerful new movement is beginning to grow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zed Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057665523952,"sku":"9781783602988","price":67.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781783602988_p0.jpg?v=1763724228","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781783602988","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}