{"product_id":"9781431422951","title":"South Africa's Insurgent Citizens On Dissent and the Possibility of Politics by Julian Brown","description":"\u003cp class=\"booktitle\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"subtitle\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwenty years after South Africa's first democratic election, the nation's politics are more fractious than ever before. The lofty dreams of the early days of the post-apartheid era have dissolved into cynicism in the face of incessant police violence, the quashing of dissent, and the spread of corruption. To many South Africans today, politics is a failed enterprise, the preserve only of the corrupt, the self-interested, the incompetent, and the violent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith this book, Julian Brown mounts a powerful, polemic argument against that sort of despair. Politics is alive and well in South Africa--if you know where to look. Brown reveals a new kind of politics, in the streets and the courtrooms, a politics created by a new kind of citizen, one that is neither respectful nor passive, but insurgent. South African politics, Brown argues, may be fractured--but it's in those very cracks that a powerful new movement is beginning to grow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jacana","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20476568257,"sku":"9781431422951","price":280.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/products\/South_Africa_s_Insurgent_Citizens.jpg?v=1575931617","url":"https:\/\/bridgebooks.co.za\/products\/9781431422951","provider":"Bridge Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}