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

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• MitwirkendeR: Bhorat, Haroon,; Bohler-Muller, Narnia,; Bond, Patrick,; Calland, Richard,; Cassim, Fuad,; Cosser, Michael,; Davids, Yul Derek,; Dhai, Ames,; Francis, David,; Gardner, Jillian,; Gordon, Steven L.,; Harvey, Jaqueline,; Juan, Andrea,; Kanbur, Ravi,; Kornegay, Francis,; Magagane, Karabo,; Mahomed, Safia,; Matebeni, Zethu,; Mbete, Sithembile,; Mchunu, Ngqapheli,; Mkwananzi, Sibusiso,; Moodley, Subeshini,; Musila, Grace A.,; Nduna, Mzikazi,; Nederlof Sithole, Mabel,; Olorunju, Nokuthula,; Pienaar, Gary,; Reddy, Vasu,; Roberts, Benjamin J.,; Soudien, Crain,; Stanwix, Benjamin,; Steyn Kotze, Joleen,; Struwig, Jarè,; Thabani Mdlongwa, Edward,; Valodia, Imraan,; Viljoen, Johan,; Wentzel, Marie,; Zikhali, Thobekile,
• HerausgeberIn: Bohler-Muller, Narnia,; Reddy, Vasu,; Soudien, Crain,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; HSRC Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Udgivelsesår: 2022
• Sprog: English
• Fysisk beskrivelse: 1 online resource (430 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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
• Index