AA 2018 Volume 50 Issue 3
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South Africa's social contract: the Economic Freedom Fighters and the rise of a new constituent power?
(University of the Free State, 2018)Taking the South African constitution as an eminent symbol of the South African social contract, and noting the opinion of many that the contract has failed to deliver, this article explores the concept of the social contract ... -
Power, rights, freedom, technocracy and postcolonialism in sub-Saharan Africa
(University of the Free State, 2018)Economic ‘unfreedom’, in the form of extreme poverty, renders individuals prey to the violation of other kinds of freedoms. Historically, colonial activities by the West openly disrupted the rights of the impoverished in ... -
The poverty of (critical) theory
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'Affective' witnessing and testimony in contemporary environmental cinema
(University of the Free State, 2018)This article advances that through incorporating registers of affect, environmental cinema might better approximate its socially and ecologically transformative goals. A film in which this has been attempted is Fisher ... -
A philosophical situation: democratic capitalism, the ecological crisis, and the issue of choice
(University of the Free State, 2018)Democracy is an open system, while capitalism is a gated one. Yet the dominant global political economy is democratic capitalism. The presence of a gated capitalist core within democracy results in the political prioritisation ... -
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(University of the Free State, 2018)
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