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POLI6011 South African Politics: from Apartheid to Democracy (Semester 2) 09/26/21 POLI6011 South African Politics: From Apartheid to Democracy | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists POLI6011 South African Politics: From View Online Apartheid to Democracy (Semester 2) 408 items Core Text (1 items) Contemporary South Africa - Anthony Butler, 2017 Book | Essential | This book covers most aspects of the module and is a good starting point for the weekly topics. (Note it's not available for the library to buy as an e-book). Weekly Readings (370 items) Week 1 - Diamonds and Gold: The Birth of Modern South Africa (13 items) What are the foundations of modern South Africa? This week we look at the discovery of diamonds and gold and the impact this had on the region. The Act of Union and the creation of the South African state will be discussed, together with the origins of racial segregation, reflected in the Natives Land Act of 1913. Week 1 Seminar Details and Essential Reading (1 items) Introductory meeting and discussion based on short reading provided in class. Contemporary South Africa - Anthony Butler, 2017 Book | Essential | Chapter 2, pp. 6-16 Week 1 Supplementary (12 items) South Africa in the twentieth century: a political history : in search of a nation state - James P. Barber, 1999 Book | Chapters 7 and 8 Twentieth-century South Africa - William Beinart, 2001 Book | Chapters 3-5. Available as print and e-book. South Africa, past, present, and future: gold at the end of the rainbow? - Alan Lester, Tony Binns, E. L. Nel, 2000 Book | Chapters 3 and 4 South Africa: the rise and fall of apartheid - Nancy L. Clark, William H. Worger, 2011 1/33 09/26/21 POLI6011 South African Politics: From Apartheid to Democracy | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Book | Chapter 2. Available as print and e-book. South Africa: a modern history - T. R. H. Davenport, Christopher Saunders, 2000 Book | Chapter 8. Available as print and e-book. South Africa pushed to the limit: the political economy of change - Hein Marais, 2011 Book | pp. 7-14. Available as print and e-book. A concise history of South Africa - Robert Ross, 2008 Book | Chapters 3 and 4 The mind of South Africa - Allister Haddon Sparks, 1991 Book | Chapter 6 A history of inequality in South Africa, 1652-2002 - Solomon Johannes Terreblanche, 2002 Book | Chapter 8 A history of South Africa - Leonard Monteath Thompson, 2001 Book | Chapter 4. A history of South Africa - Frank Welsh, 2000 Book | Chapters 10-12 The making of modern South Africa: conquest, apartheid, democracy - Nigel Worden, 2012 Book | Chapters 2 and 3. Available as print and e-book. Week 2 - The Rise and Fall of Apartheid (1948-1990) (32 items) This week we continue our focus on the historical background to the situation in contemporary South Africa. The victory of the Nationalist Party in the 1948 election led to the institutionalisation of racial segregation under the apartheid system. We will look at the impact this had on black resistance politics, in particular the African National Congress (ANC), and the nature of South Africa’s economic development. The international reaction to apartheid will also be covered. Week 2 Seminar Details and Essential Reading (2 items) 1. What were the major aspects of the apartheid system? 2. What pressures did it come under during the 1970s and 1980s? 3. What impact has South Africa's history had on the challenges it faces today? Contemporary South Africa - Anthony Butler, 2017 Book | Essential | Chapter 2, pp. 17-20 Chapter 11 - A Bitter Inheritance - Allister Sparks Chapter | Essential Week 2 Supplementary (30 items) 2/33 09/26/21 POLI6011 South African Politics: From Apartheid to Democracy | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists South Africa in the twentieth century: a political history : in search of a nation state - James P. Barber, 1999 Book | Chapters 11-12 and 16-19 Twentieth-century South Africa - William Beinart, 2001 Book | Chapters 6-9. Available as print and e-book. The Historical Context and Legacy of the Natives Land Act of 1913 - William Beinart, Peter Delius, 2014 Article South Africa, past, present, and future: gold at the end of the rainbow? - Alan Lester, Tony Binns, E. L. Nel, 2000 Book | Chapter 5 No one to blame?: in pursuit of justice in South Africa - George Bizos, 1998 Book South Africa: the rise and fall of apartheid - Nancy L. Clark, William H. Worger, 2011 Book | Chapters 3 and 4. Available as print and e-book. South Africa: a modern history - T. R. H. Davenport, Christopher Saunders, 2000 Book | Chapters 14-17. Available as print and e-book. External mission: the ANC in exile, 1960-1990 - Stephen Ellis, 2014 Book Politics and society in South Africa: a critical introduction - Daryl Glaser, 2001 Book | Chapter 7. The fall of apartheid: the inside story from Smuts to Mbeki - Robert Harvey, 2003 Book 100 years of struggle: Mandela's ANC - Heidi Holland, 2012 Book | Chapters 1-13. South Africa: inventing the nation - Alexander Johnston, 2014 Book | Chapter 2 Capitalism and apartheid: South Africa, 1910-1986 - Merle Lipton, 1986 Book | Chapters 1-3 Black politics in South Africa since 1945 - Tom Lodge, 1983 Book Mandela and the Left - Tom Lodge, 2019 Article ‘Now Is the Time!’ The Importance of International Spaces for Women’s Activism within the ANC, 1960–1976 - Emma Elinor Lundin, 2019 Article 3/33 09/26/21 POLI6011 South African Politics: From Apartheid to Democracy | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists The ANC and the liberation struggle: a critical political biography - Dale T. McKinley, 1997 Book | Chapters 1-5 South Africa pushed to the limit: the political economy of change - Hein Marais, 2011 Book | pp. 15-66. Available as print and e-book. Locations of violence: Political rationality and death squads in apartheid South Africa - Suren Pillay, 2005 Article A concise history of South Africa - Robert Ross, 2008 Book | Chapters 5 and 6 Mandela’s Army: Urban Revolt in South Africa, 1960–1964 - Thula Simpson, 2019 Article The mind of South Africa - Allister Haddon Sparks, 1991 Book | Chapters 7-14 The Turn to Sabotage by The Congress Movement in South Africa - Simon Stevens, 2019 Article The African National Congress centenary: a long and difficult journey - Raymond Suttner, 2012 Article A history of inequality in South Africa, 1652-2002 - Solomon Johannes Terreblanche, 2002 Book | Chapters 9 and 10 A history of South Africa - Leonard Monteath Thompson, 2001 Book | Chapters 6 and 7. Transition from below: forging trade unionism workplace change in South Africa - Karl Von Holdt, 2003 Book | Chapters 1-3 and 5 Ending apartheid - David Welsh, J. E. Spence, 2011 Book | Chapters 1-4 A history of South Africa - Frank Welsh, 2000 Book | Chapters 16-18 The making of modern South Africa: conquest, apartheid, democracy - Nigel Worden, 2012 Book | Chapters 4, 5 and 6 (pp. 131-144). Available as print and e-book. Week 3 - The Negotiated Transition (1990-1994) (34 items) Many commentators see the transition to liberal democracy in South Africa as a minor miracle. The threat of fragmentation and violent conflict was never far away during the period of negotiations. This week we focus on the transition to democracy and the process 4/33 09/26/21 POLI6011 South African Politics: From Apartheid to Democracy | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists of nation-building and in particular the decision to create the Government of National Unity after the first multi-racial election in 1994. Week 3 Seminar Details and Essential Reading (2 items) 1. What were the differences between the constitutional frameworks proposed by the National Party and the ANC? 2. Why did the Inkatha Freedom Party decide to boycott the negotiating process? 3. How important was the international system in shaping the nature of the transition to democracy in South Africa? Contemporary South Africa - Anthony Butler, 2017 Book | Essential | Chapter 2, pp. 20-30. South Africa and the Global Order: The Structural Conditioning of a Transition to Democracy. - Adam Habib, Devan Pillay, Ashwin Desai, 1998 Article | Essential Week 3 Supplementary (32 items) Comrades in business: post-liberation politics in South Africa - Heribert Adam, F. van Zyl Slabbert, Kogila Moodley, 1998 Book | Chapter 3 South Africa in the twentieth century: a political history : in search of a nation state - James P. Barber, 1999 Book | Chapters 20-22 Twentieth-century South Africa - William Beinart, 2001 Book | Chapter 10. Available as print and e-book. South Africa: the rise and fall of apartheid - Nancy L. Clark, William H. Worger, 2011 Book | Chapter 5. Available as print and e-book. The transfer of power in South Africa - T. R. H. Davenport, 1998 Book South Africa: a modern history - T. R. H. Davenport, Christopher Saunders, 2000 Book | pp. 559-568. Available as print and e-book. Mandela and the televised birth of the rainbow nation - Martha Evans, 2010 Article A legacy of liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the future of the South African dream - Mark Gevisser, 2009 Book | Chapters 27-29 Mandela, Human Rights and the Making of South Africa’s Transformative Constitution - Timothy Gibbs, 2019 Article 5/33 09/26/21 POLI6011 South African Politics: From Apartheid to Democracy | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Politics and society in South Africa: a critical introduction - Daryl Glaser, 2001 Book | Chapter 8. South Africa’s watershed election - James Hamill, J. E. Spence, 1994 Article 100 years of struggle: Mandela's ANC - Heidi Holland, 2012 Book | Chapter 14 South Africa: inventing the nation - Alexander Johnston, 2014 Book | Chapter 3 South Africa's brave new world: the beloved country since the end of apartheid - R. W. Johnson, 2010 Book | Chapter 2 Negotiated revolutions: the Czech Republic, South Africa and Chile - George Lawson, , 2005 Book | Chapter 4 The ANC and the liberation struggle: a critical political biography - Dale T.
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