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Reassessing Mandela

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Six years since his death (2013), Nelson Mandela still occupies an extraordinary place in the global imagination. Internationally, Mandela’s renown seems intact and invulnerable. In South Africa, however, his legacy and his place in the country’s history have become matters of contention and dispute, especially among younger black South Africans. These essays analyse aspects of Mandela’s life in the context of South Africa’s national history, and make an important contribution to the historiography of the anti-apartheid political struggle. They reassess: the political context of his youth; his changing political beliefs and connections with the left; his role in the African National Congress and the turn to armed struggle; and his marriage to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and their political relationship. By providing new context, they explore Mandela as an actor in broader social processes such as the rise of the ANC and the making of South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution. The detailed essays are linked in a substantial introduction by Colin Bundy and current debates are addressed in a concluding essay by Elleke Boehmer. This book provides a scholarly counterweight both to uncritical celebration of Mandela and also to a simplistic attribution of post-apartheid shortcomings to the person of Mandela.

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Dimensions 235 × 155 × 28 mm
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Willam Beinart; Colin Bundy

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William Beinart is Emeritus Professor, St Antony’s College and the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford. He served as Chair of the JSAS Editorial Board, Director of the African Studies Centre at Oxford and President of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (ASAUK). He has focused largely on the history of South Africa, environmental history and land reform.

Publications include: Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa (1987 with Colin Bundy); Twentieth-Century South Africa (2001); The Rise of Conservation in South Africa (2003); Environment and Empire (2007 with Lotte Hughes); Prickly Pear (2011 with Luvuyo Wotshela); African Local Knowledge (2013 with Karen Brown); Rights to Land (2017 with Peter Delius and Michelle Hay); ‘Next Steps Towards Land Reform’ (2019 with Peter Delius); The Scientific Imagination in South Africa, 1700 to the Present (forthcoming 2021 with Saul Dubow).

Colin Bundy is a South African historian, who has retired after a career spent in the UK and South Africa as an academic and university administrator. He studied at the universities of Natal, Witwatersrand and Oxford. As a scholar he was best known for Rise and Fall of a South African Peasantry and Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa (co-authored with William Beinart).

Since 2012 he has published four books in the Jacana Pocket Series: biographies of Govan Mbeki and Nelson Mandela, an assessment of post-apartheid South Africa, and a study of poverty in South Africa, past and present.

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9781431430031

Year of Publication

2020

Month of Publication

December

Language

English

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Jacana Media

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Print edition

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SKU: 9781431430031 Categories: All Books, History, Politics Tags: JC Reassessing Mandela, New releases, The books everyone is talking about
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