As we don’t know the difference between a mosque and a university, because both are from the same root in Arabic, why do we need the state, since states pass just as surely as time? (Mahmoud Darwish) Rather than seeing the prevalence of systemic political violence in Africa as resulting from a purportedly difficult “transition to democracy”, this article insists that accounts of such violence must be sought within the modes of rule of the democratic state itself. In particular, the manifestation of a contradiction between democracy and nationalism in a neo-colonial context, takes many different forms which cannot be resolved consensually given existing modes of rule and the enrichment of the oligarchy at the expense of the nation. Xenophobi...
Transitional justice is about the recovery of the rule of law and justice after mass violence. In th...
Thesis (M.Soc.Sci.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1987.The field of political violence is introduced ...
Post-transition countries are often challenged by increasing levels of violence and crime, inequalit...
ABSTRACT Violence in Africa for instance is pathological. Some forms of violence, particularly those...
Political violence has deep historical roots in South Africa. But if violence has figured prominentl...
This article discusses recent developments in South African politics from the perspective of a parad...
In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal...
A number of recent gains in social science have found that periods of violent civil disorder marked ...
This article adopts a 'state-in-society' approach in order to take account of the impact of the tran...
In the recent process of transition in Africa since the 1980s, the form of state rule has been chang...
This article revisits the mental legacies of settler-colonial rule in Southern African societies und...
Transitional justice often involves formerly oppressed groups taking over political power from their...
Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘...
For almost two decades, an unofficial civil war ravaged the Province of KwaZulu-Natal and parts of t...
The democratic transition in South Africa that emerged during the 1990s and became manifest in a dem...
Transitional justice is about the recovery of the rule of law and justice after mass violence. In th...
Thesis (M.Soc.Sci.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1987.The field of political violence is introduced ...
Post-transition countries are often challenged by increasing levels of violence and crime, inequalit...
ABSTRACT Violence in Africa for instance is pathological. Some forms of violence, particularly those...
Political violence has deep historical roots in South Africa. But if violence has figured prominentl...
This article discusses recent developments in South African politics from the perspective of a parad...
In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal...
A number of recent gains in social science have found that periods of violent civil disorder marked ...
This article adopts a 'state-in-society' approach in order to take account of the impact of the tran...
In the recent process of transition in Africa since the 1980s, the form of state rule has been chang...
This article revisits the mental legacies of settler-colonial rule in Southern African societies und...
Transitional justice often involves formerly oppressed groups taking over political power from their...
Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘...
For almost two decades, an unofficial civil war ravaged the Province of KwaZulu-Natal and parts of t...
The democratic transition in South Africa that emerged during the 1990s and became manifest in a dem...
Transitional justice is about the recovery of the rule of law and justice after mass violence. In th...
Thesis (M.Soc.Sci.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1987.The field of political violence is introduced ...
Post-transition countries are often challenged by increasing levels of violence and crime, inequalit...