Remains of the Social : Desiring the Post-Apartheid

Maurits van Bever Donker, Ross Truscott, Gary Minkley, Premesh Lalu

• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781776140381
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays thatengages with what 'the social' might mean after apartheid; a conditionreferred to as 'the post-apartheid social'. The volume grapples withapartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the bordersof South Africa between 1948 and 1994 and foregrounds the tensionbetween the weight of lived experience that was and is apartheid, the structures that condition thatexperience, and a desire for a 'postapartheidsocial' (think unity through difference).Collectively, thecontributors argue for a recognition of the 'the post-apartheid' as acondition that names the labour of coming to terms with the orderingprinciples that apartheid both set in place and foreclosed. The volumeseeks to provide a sense of the terrain on which 'the post-apartheid' – as a desire for a difference that is not apartheid's difference – unfolds, falters and is worked through.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Traversing the Social
• Chapter 2: The Mandela Imaginary: Reflections on Post-Reconciliation Libidinal Economy
• Chapter 3: The Return of Empathy: Postapartheid Fellow Feeling
• Chapter 4: The Ethics of Precarity: Judith Butler’s Reluctant Universalism
• Chapter 5: Hannah Arendt’s Work of Mourning: The Politics of Loss, ‘the Rise of the Social’ and the Ends of Apartheid
• Chapter 6: Souvenir
• Chapter 7: Re-Cover: Afrikaans Rock, Apartheid’s Children and the Work of the Cover
• Chapter 8: The Graves of Dimbaza: Temporal Remains
• Chapter 9: The Principle of Insufficiency: Ethics and Community at the Edge of the Social
• Chapter 10: The Trojan Horse and the ‘Becoming Technical of the Human’
• About the Contributors
• List of Figures
• Index