South Africa in Transition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Changing Paradigms and the Politics of Transition in South Africa

   • David R. Howarth, Aletta J. Norval

   Pages 1-12

3. The Dying Days of Apartheid

   • Rupert Taylor, Mark Shaw

   Pages 13-30

4. Changing Discourses of Democracy and Socialism in South Africa

   • Daryl Glaser

   Pages 31-48

5. Race, Reason and Representation in National Party Discourse, 1990–1992

   • Antony Altbeker, Jonny Steinberg

   Pages 49-71

6. From the ‘Peaceful Past’ to the ‘Violent Present’: Memory, Myth and Identity in Guguletu

   • Sean Field

   Pages 72-92

7. Reinventing the Politics of Cultural Recognition: The Freedom Front and the Demand for a Volkstaat

   • Aletta J. Norval

   Pages 93-110

8. Identity and the Changing Politics of Gender in South Africa

   • Debby Bonnin, Roger Deacon, Robert Morrell, Jenny Robinson

   Pages 111-131

9. Education, Development and Democracy in South Africa

   • Roger Deacon, Ben Parker

   Pages 132-148

10. The Fruits of Modernity: Law, Power and Paternalism in the Rural Western Cape

    • Andries du Toit

    Pages 149-164

11. South African Literature, Beyond Apartheid

    • Mark Devenney

    Pages 165-181

12. Paradigms Gained? A Critique of Theories and Explanations of Democratic Transition in South Africa

    • David R. Howarth

    Pages 182-214

13. Back Matter

    Pages 215-222

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South Africa in Transition utilises new theoretical perspectives to describe and explain central dimensions of the democratic transition in South Africa during the late 1980s and early 1990s, covering changes in the politics of gender and education, the political discourses of the ANC, NP and the white right, constructions of identity in South Africa's black townships and rural areas, the role of political violence in the transition, and accounts of the democratization process itself.

• democracy
• democratization
• gender
• politics
• socialism
• violence

• Staffordshire University, UK

  David R. Howarth

• University of Essex, UK

  Aletta J. Norval

ANTONY ALTBEKKER Deputy Director General of the Department of Finance in South Africa DEBBY BONNIN Department of Sociology, University of Natal, Durban ROGER DEACON Education Department, University of Natal, Durban MARK DEVENNEY Doctoral Student, University of Essex ANDRIES DU TOIT Director of a Research Project on land reform and its policy implications in South Africa SEAN FIELD Currently involved in setting up an oral History Research Project in Cape Town, South Africa DARYL GLASER teaches Political Theory, University of Strathclyde DAVID HOWARTH Teaches Political Theory, University of Staffordshire ROBERT MORREL teaches History and Gender-related courses, Education Department, University of Natal, Durban ALETTA NORVAL Director of the MA programme in Ideology and Discourse Theory, University of Essex BEN PARKER Chair of the Department of Education, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg JENNIFER ROBINSON Department of Geography, London School of Economics MARK SHAW Senior Researcher and Head of the Crime and Police Policy, Institute for Security Studies, Johannesburg JONNY STEINBERG Doctoral student, Oxford University RUPERT TAYLOR Department of Political Science, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

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