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Destroying Democracy

Jane Duncan

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140 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h45min.
This book interrogates how capitalism is destroying democracy through the commodification of everything into market democracy, and affirms the need to reclaim and re-build expansive democracy.Destroying Democracy, volume six of the Democratic Marxism series, focuses on how decades of neoliberal capitalism have eroded the global democratic project and how, in the process, rising authoritarianism is expressing itself in divisive and exclusionary politics, populist political parties and movements, increased distrust in fact-based information and news, and the withering accountability of state institutions. Over the last four decades, democracy has radically shifted to a market democracy in which all aspects of human, non-human and planetary life are commodified and corporations have become more powerful than states and their citizens. This is how neoliberal capitalism functions at a systemic level and if left unchecked, is the greatest threat to democracy and a sustainable planet. The authors home in on four country cases – India, Brazil, South Africa and the United States of America to interrogate issues of politics, ecology, state security, media, access to information and political parties, and affirm the need to reclaim and re-build an expansive and inclusive democracy. The book is an invaluable resource for all who are interested in understanding the threats to democracy and the rising tide of authoritarianism in the global south and the global north.Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Preface: Neoliberal Capitalism in the Time of Covid-19: Destroying Democracy and Rising Authoritarianism – Michelle Williams and Vishwas Satgar Part I: Neoliberal Capitalism’s Destruction of Democracy Chapter 1 The Crisis of Democracy: Neoliberal Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Reclaiming Democracy – Michelle Williams Chapter 2 The Rise of Eco-Fascism – Vishwas Satgar Part II: Neoliberal Capitalism Against Democracy Globally Chapter 3 Populism and Fascism: Lessons from the 1920s Ku Klux Klan – Linda Gordon Chapter 4 What Do ‘Unruly’ Right-Wing Authoritarian Nationalists Do When They Rule? The United States under Donald Trump – Ingar Solty Chapter 5 Brazilian Democracy Facing Authoritarian Neoliberalism – Alfredo Saad Filho Chapter 6 India’s Trajectories of Change, 2004-2019 – Alf Gunvald Nilsen Part III: Neoliberal Capitalism Against Democracy in South Africa Chapter 7 The Dialectic of Democracy: Capitalism, Populism and Working-Class Politics – Devan Pillay Chapter 8 Democracy and the Right to Know in South Africa’s Capitalist Transition – Dale T McKinley Chapter 9 South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Media and Democracy – Mandla J Radebe Chapter 10 Securitising Protests as Domestic Instability in South Africa – Jane Duncan Chapter 11 Prospects for a Left Renewal in South Africa – Gunnett Kaaf Conclusion – Vishwas Satgar Contributors Index
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Stopping the Spies

Jane Duncan

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In 2013, former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden leaked secret documents revealing that state agencies like the NSA had spied on the communications of millions of innocent citizens. International outrage resulted, but the Snowden documents revealed only the tip of the surveillance iceberg. More and more states are placing citizens under surveillance, tracking their movements and transactions with public and private institutions. Jane Duncan assesses the relevance of Snowden’s revelations for South Africa. In doing so she questions the extent to which South Africa is becoming a surveillance society governed by a surveillance state. Duncan challenges members of civil society to be concerned about and to act on the ever-expanding surveillance capacities of the South African state. Is surveillance used for the democratic purpose of making people safer, or is it being used for the repressive purpose of social control, especially of those considered to be politically threatening to ruling interests? Duncan explores the forms of collective action needed to ensure that unaccountable surveillance does not take place and examines what does and does not work when it comes to developing organised responses. This book is aimed at South African citizens, academics, as well as general readers.Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Acronyms Introduction Chapter 1  Theorising the surveillance state Chapter 2  Is privacy dead? Resistance to surveillance after the Snowden disclosures Chapter 3  The context of surveillance and social control in South Africa Chapter 4  Lawful interception in South Africa Chapter 5  State mass surveillance, tactical surveillance and hacking in South Africa Chapter 6  Privacy, surveillance and public spaces in South Africa Chapter 7  Privacy, surveillance and population management: the turn to biometrics Chapter 8  Stopping the spies: resisting unaccountable surveillance in South Africa Chapter  Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index
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New South African Review 2

William Attwell

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Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)INTRODUCTION: The Zuma presidency: The politics of paralysis? John Daniel and Roger Southall CHAPTER 1: The Tripartite Alliance and its discontents: Contesting the ‘National Democratic Revolution’ in the Zuma era Devan Pillay CHAPTER 2: The African National Congress and the Zanufication debate James Hamill and John Hoffman CHAPTER 3: Dancing like a monkey: The Democratic Alliance and opposition politics in South Africa Neil Southern and Roger Southall CHAPTER 4: Democracy and accountability: Quo Vadis South Africa? Paul Hoffman CHAPTER 5: Civil society and participatory policy making in South Africa: Gaps and opportunities Imraan Buccus and Janine Hicks CHAPTER 6: Bring back Kaiser Matanzima? Communal land, traditional leaders and the politics of nostalgia Leslie Bank and Clifford Mabhena CHAPTER 7: South Africa and ‘Southern Africa’: What relationship in 2011? Chris Saunders INTRODUCTION TO PART 2: Continuing crises, contradictions and contestation Prishani Naidoo CHAPTER 8: ‘The wages are low but they are better than nothing’: The dilemma of decent work and job creation in South Africa Edward Webster CHAPTER 9: The crisis of childcare in South African public hospitals Haroon Saloojee CHAPTER 10: The worker cooperative alternative in South Africa Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams CHAPTER 11: Policing in the streets of South African townships Knowledge Rajohane Matshedisho CHAPTER 12: BEE Reform: The case for an institutional perspective Don Lindsay CHAPTER 13: Bokfontein amazes the nations: Community Work Programme (CWP) heals a traumatised community Malose Langa and Karl von Holdt INTRODUCTION TO PART 3: Ecological threats and the crisis of civilisation Devan Pillay CHAPTER 14: Above and beyond South Africa’s minerals-energy complex Khadija Sharife and Patrick Bond CHAPTER 15: Corrosion and externalities: The socio-economic impacts of acid mine drainage on the Witwatersrand David Fig CHAPTER 16: Food versus fuel? State, business, civil society and the bio-fuels debate in South Africa, 2003 to 2010 William Attwell INTRODUCTION TO PART 4: Media transformation and the right to know Devan Pillay CHAPTER 17: The print media transformation dilemma Jane Duncan CHAPTER 18: The South African Broadcasting Corporation: The creation and loss of a citizenship vision and the possibilities for building a new one Kate Skinner
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Mbeki and After

Steven Friedman

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For nearly ten years – indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa’s new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in state and party management, economic policy, public health intervention, foreign affairs and race relations. If we wish to understand the character and fate of post-1994 South Africa, we must therefore ask: What kind of political system, economy and society has the former President bequeathed to the government of Jacob Zuma and to the citizens of South Africa generally? This question is addressed head-on here by a diverse range of analysts, commentators and participants in the political process. Amongst the specific questions they seek to answer: What is Mbeki’s legacy for patterns of inclusion and exclusion based on race, class and gender? How, if at all, did his presidency reshape relations within the state, between the state and the ruling party and between the state and society? How did he reposition South Africa on the continent and in the world? This book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the current political landscape in South Africa, and Mbeki’s role in shaping it.Chapter 1: MBEKI AND HIS LEGACY: A critical introduction DARYL GLASER Chapter 2 MBEKI’S LEGACY: Some conceptual markers PETER HUDSON Chapter 3 WHY IS THABO MBEKI A ‘NITEMARE’? MARK GEVISSER Chapter 4 MACHIAVELLI MEETS THE CONSTITUTION: Mbeki and the law RICHARD CALLAND AND CHRIS OXTOBY Chapter 5 THABO MBEKI AND DISSENT 105 JANE DUNCAN Chapter 6 CIVIL SOCIETY AND UNCIVIL GOVERNMENT: The Treatment Action Campaign versus Thabo Mbeki, 1998-2008 MARK HEYWOOD Chapter 7 SEEING OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US: Racism, technique and the Mbeki administration STEVEN FRIEDMAN Chapter 8 TOWARDS A COMMON NATIONAL IDENTITY: Did Thabo Mbeki help or hinder? EUSEBIUS MCKAISER Chapter 9 THABO MBEKI’S LEGACY OF TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY CHRIS LANDSBERG Chapter 10 THABO MBEKI AND THE GREAT FOREIGN POLICY RIDDLE PETER VALE
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