{"product_id":"conquest-constitutionalism-and-democratic-contestations-south-african-perspectives-9780367236847","title":"Conquest, Constitutionalism and Democratic Contestations: South African Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Modiri Joel M.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Regional Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo decades since the enactment of South Africa's present constitution, the durability and endurance of 'past' inequalities and injustices illustrate that the 'new South Africa' - lauded as a miracle nation with the best constitution in the world - can no longer be regarded as an unqualified success. The legal and constitutional foundations of post-1994 South Africa are in a process of renegotiation that invites new and alternative perspectives and approaches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive volume explores this process of renegotiation by engaging political and intellectual contestations circulating in South African academic and public discourse relating to continuities and discontinuities between the colonial-apartheid past and the post-1994 constitutional present. The authors analyse the moral, intellectual and political unravelling of post-1994 South African constitutionalism (as legal text and political culture) and enquire whether it has been able to respond adequately to the \u003ci\u003efundamental \u003c\/i\u003econtradictions generated by colonisation and apartheid. They also consider how centring the historical problem of European domination and conquest in Africa - and South Africa in particular - might provide an alternative frame or lens to theorise and understand contemporary South African realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book marks out a complex field of contestation - involving competing histories, locations, visions and perspectives - that raises multifaceted questions regarding law, history and politics. It is the outcome of a \u003ci\u003eSouth African Journal of Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e colloquium and was originally published as a special issue of the journal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47616242843799,"sku":"9780367236847","price":14808.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780367236847.webp?v=1775112052","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/conquest-constitutionalism-and-democratic-contestations-south-african-perspectives-9780367236847","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}