Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Combining richly detailed empirical research on transnational connections with bold and imaginative theoretical argument, this innovative study offers fresh critical understandings of globalization and unique insights into post-apartheid South Africa. Based on research conducted between 1994 and 2001, Gillian Hart traces political dynamics in two former white towns and adjacent black townships in the province of KwaZulu-Natal that are major sites of Taiwanese investment. Focusing on East...
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"An unequivocally excellent work of scholarship that makes significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of 'globalization' and the working of contemporary neo-liberal capitalism. Hart is especially innovative in placing the study of Taiwanese industrialists in South Africa in relation to both the agrarian history of Taiwan and China, and the way that Taiwanese overseas firms have operated in places other than South Africa. It is a very rare combination of talents and knowledge that makes such a study possible."—James Ferguson, author of Expectations of Modernity James Ferguson An unequivocally excellent work of scholarship that makes significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of 'globalization' and the working of contemporary neo-liberal capitalism. Hart is especially innovative in placing the study of Taiwanese industrialists in South Africa in relation to both the agrarian history of Taiwan and China, and the way that Taiwanese overseas firms have operated in places other than South Africa. It is a very rare combination of talents and knowledge that makes such a study possible.
List of MapsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1Ch. 1Re-Placing Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa16Pt. IForging PlacesCh. 2'The Land of our Comfort': Regional Contours of Agrarian Transformation59Ch. 3Losing Ground and Making Space: Dispossession and Township Formation96Ch. 4Manufacturing Connections: Labor, Township, and Industrial Politics127Pt. IITransnational TrajectoriesCh. 5Taiwanese Networks in Newcastle: The Production of Knitwear and of Difference165Ch. 6The China Connection: Agrarian Questions in an Era of Globalization198Pt. IIIPost-Apartheid PossibilitiesCh. 7Accumulating Tensions: Remaking the Local State235Ch. 8Enabling Alternatives: Re-Envisioning the Future290Postscript and Acknowledgements314Appendix323Notes328Select Bibliography350Index373
\ James FergusonAn unequivocally excellent work of scholarship that makes significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of 'globalization' and the working of contemporary neo-liberal capitalism. Hart is especially innovative in placing the study of Taiwanese industrialists in South Africa in relation to both the agrarian history of Taiwan and China, and the way that Taiwanese overseas firms have operated in places other than South Africa. It is a very rare combination of talents and knowledge that makes such a study possible.\ \
