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New South Africa (new + south_africa)
Selected AbstractsHill of Thorns: Custom, Knowledge and the Reclaiming of a Lost Land in the New South AfricaDEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, Issue 3 2000Deborah James This article provides a detailed ethnographic exploration of a case of land restitution in South Africa. It shows how the development discourse invoked during the process of reclaiming land, rather than being imposed in an entirely top-down manner, has been the result of negotiations between those claiming and those , in government and NGOs , who have helped them claim. The resulting knowledge about the ownership and appropriate governance of land reveals a complex and often contradictory understanding of concepts like ,custom', ,community' and ,power'. [source] Confronting Reality: Change and Transformation in the New South AfricaTHE POLITICAL QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2002David Dickinson First page of article [source] Reconciliation and Political Legitimacy: The Old Australia and the New South AfricaAUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 2 2003Paul Muldoon In both Australia and South Africa a state-sponsored discourse of reconciliation has been deployed as a tool of national integration and state building. This usage has tended to encourage a politics of selective memory that runs contrary to the spirit of reconciliation as recognition of different views of the nation. This article seeks to recover (and promote) a more positive concept of reconciliation by treating it as a discursive, democratic space in which different versions of the national story can be acknowledged and negotiated. The cases of Australia and South Africa are used in a mutually illuminating way to explore what "telling the truth" about the past might mean and how such "truth-telling" might help restore legitimacy to liberal states confronted with a "broken moral order". [source] Criminal justice, cultural justice: The limits of liberalism and the pragmatics of difference in the new south africaAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2004John L. Comaroff ABSTRACT What are the limits of liberalism in accommodating the growing demands of difference? Can a Euromodernist nation-state, founded on One Law, infuse itself with another, with an African jurisprudence? And how is it to deal with cultural practices deemed "dangerous" by the canons of enlightenment reason? These questions are especially urgent in postcolonies like South Africa, with highly diverse populations whose traditional ways and means are accorded constitutional protection. Here we examine how South Africans are dealing with such "dangerous" practices in an era in which their nation is becoming ever more policultural; how, in the process, an Afromodernity is taking organic shape in the interstices between new democratic institutions and the kingdom of custom; how the confrontation between Culture, in the upper case, and a state founded on liberal universalism is beginning to reconfigure the political landscape of this postcolony,as it is, we argue, in many places across the planet. [source] | ||||||||||