Description: Contradictions of Democracy : Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Paperback by Smith, Nicholas Rush, ISBN 0190847190, ISBN-13 9780190847197, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Despite being one of the worlds most vibrant democracies, police estimate between five and ten percent of the murders in South Africa result from vigilante violence. This is puzzling given the countrys celebrated transition to democracy and massive reform of the states legal institutions.
Where most studies explain vigilantism as a response to state or civic failure, in Contradictions of Democracy, Nicholas Rush Smith illustrates that vigilantism is actually a response to the processes of democratic state formation. In the context of densely networked neighborhoods, vigilante
citizens often interpret the technical success of legal institutions-for instance, the arrest and subsequent release of suspects on bail-as failure and work to correct such perceived failures on their own. Smith also shows that vigilantism provides a new lens through which to understand democratic
state formation. Among young men of color in some parts of South Africa, fear of extra-judicial police violence is common. Amid such fear, instead of the state seeming protective, it can appear as something akin to a massive vigilante organization. An insightful look into the high rates of
vigilantism in South Africa and the general challenges of democratic state building, Contradictions of Democracy explores fundamental questions about political order, the rule of law, and democratic citizenship.
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Book Title: Contradictions of Democracy : Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apar
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Contradictions of Democracy: Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Law, Anthropology, Politics
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Weight: 372 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Nicholas Rush Smith
Subject Area: Political Sociology
Series: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
Item Width: 163 mm
Format: Paperback
