Description - Challenging Hegemony by Nigel C Gibson
This title talks about new political struggles in post-Apartheid South Africa. It is a collection of essays by leading social movement scholars and activists, analysing the emergence of new political struggles in post-Apartheid South Africa. It is a volume reflecting on the mushrooming of new movements that represent what Franz Fanon called "the untidy affirmation of an original idea propounded as an absolute": a quest for a new humanism manifested in those movements' most simple and basic demands for land, housing and medicine. How can the challenge to hegemony possibly be connected to the quest for a new humanism? These essays investigate how new movements (including organised social forums, as well as local movements) are not only challenging neo-liberal capitalist globalisation, but also attempting to articulate alternatives and raise the question of what it means to be human. Whether reconnecting electricity, or struggling for housing or HIV/AIDS antivirals, these social movements are a challenge, in the most human of ways, to the idea that there is no alternative to capitalist globalisation.
Gibson's collection brings together some of the most outstanding intellectuals writing on the rise of social movements in South Africa. The writers included represent the cutting edge of intellectuals who have shown tremendous courage in their quest not only to be commentators but activists in the emergent neo-liberal movement.
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