{"product_id":"9781783603008","title":"South Africa's Insurgent Citizens: On Dissent and the Possibility of Politics","description":"Twenty years on from South Africa's first democratic election, the post-apartheid political order is more fractured, and more fractious, than ever before. Police violence seems the order of the day – whether in response to a protest in Ficksburg or a public meeting outside a mine in Marikana. For many, this has signalled the end of the South African dream. Politics, they declare, is the preserve of the corrupt, the self-interested, the incompetent and the violent.  They are wrong.  Julian Brown argues that a new kind of politics can be seen on the streets and in the courtrooms of the country. This politics is made by a new kind of citizen – one that is neither respectful nor passive, but instead insurgent. The collapse of the dream of a consensus politics is not a cause for despair. South Africa's political order is fractured, and in its cracks new forms of activity, new leaders and new movements are emerging.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47301078057200,"sku":"9781783603008","price":27.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781783603008_p0.jpg?v=1763724238","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781783603008","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}