Neoliberalism and the State of Belonging in South Africa ||

'This book takes a deep dive into South African history and state theory to understand the nature and continuing production of that country's state. Becker demonstrates both the univeralising thrust of neoliberalism and its embeddedness in South Africa, with powerful effect.' --Padraig Carmody, Associate Professor in Geography at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa 'This fascinating study utilizes the work of Henri Lefebvre on space to contextualize and understand state formation in the case of South Africa. This book refreshingly engages both the internal and external processes integral to the formation of the South African state over time, and provides an incisive analysis of the embedded neoliberal state.' --Brent Steele, Professor and Francis D. Wormuth Presidential Chair, Political Science Department, University of Utah, USA This book explains the making of the South African state and thereby contributes to the development theory by analyzing the concept of the embedded neoliberal state. The author offers a theoretical exploration of state formation as an inherently interconnected international and domestic social process as applied to the history and development of South Africa. A genuine social science that eschews disciplinary boundaries, this will appeal to a wide audience of scholars in the fields of political development, political science, African and development studies. Derick A. Becker is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Acknowledgement Contents Introduction: There Is No Alternative—Globalization and Post-Apartheid South Africa The Case for South Africa On the Art of the State: Questions, Problems, Approaches South Africa: The Political, the Personal, the State, and the System Bibliography No Island Unto Itself: Spatial Performativity and Production of the State On the State: A Coherent Incoherence Embedding the Neoliberal State: A Model of Process The States of the System: The Embedded Bias of Neoliberalism A Note on the Method of Madness: Narrative and Theory Bibliography The Meaning of Belonging: Race and the Making of South Africa The Unintended States of Imperialism A British Colony Liberal Governance and Boer Defiance Gold and the Political Economy of Ethnic Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners and the Nascent South African State Bibliography The Politics of Discontent and the Early State: On the Origins and Death of Apartheid The Union of South Africa: The Politics of the Poor Whites and Afrikaner Nationalism The Ideological Origins Apartheid and Its Dissolution Resistance and the State Bibliography A State in Transition: The Negotiated Birth of the Post-Apartheid State Socialising the State The Ship of State Does Not Turn Easily: Syncretism and the Drift Right The ANC and the Rise of a New Era Selling the Story of South Africa’s Future Business and the Unmaking of Apartheid: Mont Fleur and the Flight of the Flamingos Abandoning RDP for GEAR: A Neoliberal South Africa Is Born The Good Citizen: Good Governance and the Neoliberal Subject Bibliography On the State of Belonging: What a Theory of Space Tells Us About Neoliberalism and Apartheid in Contemporary South Africa The Politics of Discontent and the State of Belonging Bibliography Bibliography Index