Politics of Death in Anti-Colonial Praxis

This book examines the political economy of death within the Black experience in South Africa by theorizing death as a productive and generative process, reconstructing an understanding of the limitations of dominant discourses, and giving rise to a radical political imagination.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Role of Marxian Ideology in the Politics of the Transition in South Africa
Chapter 2: 'Black Impasses' to the Hegemonic Logic of Liberal Democratic Constitutionalism
Chapter 3: The Dialectics of Death and the Problem of the Political
Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Conditions for Revolution and Freedom in Biko's Theory of Black Consciousness
Conclusion
References
About the Author

About the author

Gregory Maxaulane

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Maxaulane, Gregory Maxaulane
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2025
• EAN: 9781666972566
• ISBN: 978-1-66697-256-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement