Introduction: Reckoning with apartheid the conundrum of working through the past
Abstract
Today in South Africa issues of political economy, including the land question, are
necessarily coming face-to-face with a resurgent politics of difference informing
long-standing histories of dispossession whose continuities with such politics of
difference are frequently denied. Despite the country's “transition” to democracy
a genuinely decolonial present has not, as yet, come into being. But from #Rhodes-MustFall
to #FeesMustFall to the October 6, 2015, anti–outsourcing campaign there is a growing
sense that the incompletion of the transition to democracy is being contested and
that the interregnum is drawing to a close as something genuinely new is trying to
be born.
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10.1215/1089201x-3603319Publication Info
Makhulu, AMB (2016). Introduction: Reckoning with apartheid the conundrum of working through the past.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 36(2). pp. 256-262. 10.1215/1089201x-3603319. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/15526.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Anne-Maria B. Makhulu
Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology
Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African
and African American Studies and Core Faculty in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at
Duke University. Her research interests cover: Africa and more specifically South
Africa, cities, space, globalization, political economy, neoliberalism, the anthropology
of finance and corporations, as well as questions of aesthetics, including the literature
of South Afr

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