Disabling Globalization Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Name: Disabling Globalization Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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ISBN: 9780520237568

ISBN-10: 0520237560

ISBN-13: 9780520237568

Edition: 2002

Authors: Gillian Patricia Hart

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Combining richly detailed empirical research on transnational connections with bold and imaginative theoretical argument, this innovative study offers fresh critical understandings of globalization and unique insights into post-apartheid South Africa. Based on research conducted between 1994 and 2001, Gillian Hart traces political dynamics in two former white towns and adjacent black townships in the province of KwaZulu-Natal that are major sites of Taiwanese investment. Focusing on East Asian connections with these places, and on histories and memories of racialized dispossession, she highlights the fragility of the neoliberal project in post-apartheid South Africa. She also suggests how…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/6/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Maps


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



Re-Placing Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa



Forging Places



'The Land of our Comfort': Regional Contours of Agrarian Transformation



Losing Ground and Making Space: Dispossession and Township Formation



Manufacturing Connections: Labor, Township, and Industrial Politics



Transnational Trajectories



Taiwanese Networks in Newcastle: The Production of Knitwear and of Difference



The China Connection: Agrarian Questions in an Era of Globalization



Post-Apartheid Possibilities



Accumulating Tensions: Remaking the Local State



Enabling Alternatives: Re-Envisioning the Future


Postscript and Acknowledgements


Appendix


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index