Political Science in South Africa: The Last Forty Years

ISBN-13: 9781138021365 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 254 str.

Professor Peter Vale; Pieter Fourie

Opis

In 2013 and in 2014 respectively, the South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS) and Politikon (the South African Journal of Political Studies) celebrate their 40th anniversary. Also, in April 2014 South Africa celebrates twenty years since the advent of the post-Apartheid democracy, and the birth of the 'rainbow nation'. This book provides a timely account of the birth and evolution of South African politics over the past four decades, but also of the study of political science and international relations in this country.

Spis treści

Dedication  1. A Word from a Founder, to Those Who Follow  2. The Study of Politics in South Africa: A Prolegomenon  3. The Subject as Object: 40 Years of Scholarship  4. Celebrating 40 Years: The State of Political Science in South Africa in 2014  5. Working in a South African Politics Department During the 1980s: Recollections  6. Teaching Politics in Exile: A Memoir from Swaziland 1973–1985  7. The Idea of Africa in South African Political Science  8. Systematic, Quantitative Political Science in South Africa: The Road Less Travelled  9. The State of Comparative Politics in South Africa  10. The Promise of Political Theory in South Africa  11. International Relations in South Africa: A Case of ‘Add Africa and Stir’?  12. Twenty Years on, It’s All Academic: Progressive South African Scholars and Moral Foreign Policy After Apartheid  13. The State of Public Administration as an Academic Field in South Africa  14. The Personal Is the International: For Black Girls Who’ve Considered Politics When Being Strong Isn’t Enough

O autorze

Peter Vale is Professor of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, and Nelson Mandela Professor of Politics Emeritus, Rhodes University. Pieter Fourie is the Editor of Politikon, the South African Journal of Political Studies, and Associate Professor of Political Science, Stellenbosch University.