Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as ‘the post-apartheid social’. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of South Africa between 1948 and 1994 and foregrounds the tension between the weight of lived experience that was and is apartheid, the structures that condition that experience and a desire for a ‘post-apartheid social’ (think unity through difference). Collectively, the contributors argue for a recognition of the ‘the post-apartheid’ as a condition that names the labour of coming to terms with the ordering principles that apartheid both set in place and foreclosed. The volume seeks 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 Content
Preface
Gary Minkley
Introduction – Traversing the Social – Maurits van Bever Donker, Ross Truscott, Gary Minkley and Premesh Lalu
Chapter 1 – The Mandela Imaginary: Reflections on Post-Reconciliation Libidinal Economy – Derek Hook
Chapter 2 – The Return of Empathy: Postapartheid Fellow Feeling – Ross Truscott
Chapter 3 – The Ethics of Precarity: Judith Butler’s Reluctant Universalism – Mari Ruti
Chapter 4 – Hannah Arendt’s Work of Mourning: The Politics of Loss, ‘the Rise of the Social’ and the Ends of Apartheid – Jaco Barnard-Naudé
Chapter 5 – Souvenir – Annemarie Lawless
Chapter 6 – Re-Cover: Afrikaans Rock, Apartheid’s Children and the Work of the Cover – Aidan Erasmus
Chapter 7 – The Graves of Dimbaza: Temporal Remains – Gary Minkley and Helena Pohlandt-Mc Cormick
Chapter 8 – The Principle of Insufficiency: Ethics and Community at the Edge of the Social – Maurits van Bever Donker
Chapter 9 – The Trojan Horse and the ‘Becoming Technical of the Human’ – Premesh Lalu
About the author
Maurits Bever Donker is a Senior lecturer and Research manager at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
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