Ethics, Politics, Inequality : : New Directions / / ed. by Narnia Bohler-Muller, Vasu Reddy, Crain Soudien.

Multilayered inequalities and a sense of insecurity have long been hallmarks of South African life—but now have been exacerbated by the uncertainties of Covid-19. Ethics, Policy, and Inequality reflects on a range of political and socioeconomic interventions, based on an ethics of care, needed to he...

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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
HSRC Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (430 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Table of contents --
List of figures and tables --
Abbreviations and acronyms --
Acknowledgements --
Foreword --
Introduction: A South African accounting of poverty and inequality --
1 An ethico-political approach to poverty and inequality: Embodying care and corporeal citizenship --
Part 1: Politics, ethics and the state --
2 Reconsidering South Africa’s electoral system: What are the alternatives? --
3 Thinking ethically about women, power and land in South Africa --
4 Presidential leadership and accountability, from Mandela to Ramaphosa --
Part 2: The South African political economy --
5 A normative approach to the minimum core: Minimum requirements for a life of dignity --
6 Diminishing the power of the X? The electoral effect of corruption perceptions --
7 An empirical assessment of the national minimum wage in South Africa --
8 Taxation, inequality and a progressive economy --
Part 3: South African society --
9 South African food politics: Human rights, security and sovereignty --
10 The right to education in South Africa: Policy tensions and the quest for balance --
11 Access to healthcare: Life Esidimeni and the vulnerability of the mentally ill --
Part 4: Wellbeing and identity --
12 The pursuit of inclusive health services: Inequalities and intersectionality --
13 Anti-immigrant violence as social group control vigilantism? Understanding attitudes, behaviours and solutions --
Part 5: Culture --
14 Cultures of sexualities and gender in Afrika’s changing nation --
15 Through the lens of post-apartheid filmmaking: Spaces of poverty and social inequality in Yesterday, Jerusalema and District 9 --
16 Diarised precarity and the crisis of informal settlements --
Part 6: South Africa and the world --
17 South Africa and the global economy --
18 A foreign policy of ubuntu? South African foreign policy values and priorities --
19 Is pan-Africanism the future? --
About the authors --
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Summary:Multilayered inequalities and a sense of insecurity have long been hallmarks of South African life—but now have been exacerbated by the uncertainties of Covid-19. Ethics, Policy, and Inequality reflects on a range of political and socioeconomic interventions, based on an ethics of care, needed to help South Africans navigate the roiling currents of the “new normal.” This latest volume in the State of the Nation series calls for active citizenship and the will and understanding to combat poverty and inequality, which in turn would bring a reconsideration of the domination, oppression, injustice, and paternalism within the democratic postapartheid state
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780796926142
9783110993899
9783110994810
9783110994513
9783110994407
DOI:10.1515/9780796926142
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Narnia Bohler-Muller, Vasu Reddy, Crain Soudien.