Remains of the social : desiring the postapartheid /

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 Sout...

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Other Authors: Van Bever Donker, Maurits M. (Editor), Truscott, Ross (Editor), Minkley, Gary (Editor), Lalu, Premesh (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2017.
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Online Access:Full text (Open Access)
Table of Contents:
  • Traversing the social / Maurits van Bever Donker [and three others]
  • The Mandela imaginary : reflections on post-reconciliation libidinal economy / Derek Hook
  • The return of empathy : postapartheid fellow feeling / Ross Truscott
  • The ethics of precarity : Judith Butler's reluctant universalism / Mari Ruti
  • Hannah Arendt's work of mourning : the politics of loss, 'the rise of the social' and the ends of apartheid / Jaco Barnard-Naudé
  • Souvenir / Annemarie Lawless
  • Re-cover : Afrikaans rock, apartheid's children and the work of the cover / Aiden Erasmus
  • The graves of Dimbaza : temporal remains / Gary Minkley and Helena Pohlandt-McCormick
  • The principle of insufficiency : ethics and community at the edge of the social / Maurits van Bever Donker
  • The Trojan Horse and the 'becoming technical of the human' / Premesh Lalu.