Without the blanket of the land: agrarian change and biopolitics in post–Apartheid South Africa
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Date
2018
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Routledge
Abstract
This paper connects Marxist approaches to the agrarian political
economy of South Africa with post-Marshallian and Foucauldian
analyses of distributional regimes and late capitalist
governmentality. Looking at South Africa’s stalled agrarian
transition through the lens of biopolitics as well as class analysis
can make visible otherwise disregarded connections between
processes of agrarian change and broader contests about the
terms of social and economic incorporation into the South African
social and political order before, during and after Apartheid. This
can bring a fresh sense of the broader political implications of the
course of agrarian change in South Africa, and helps contextualise
the enduring salience of land as a flashpoint within South Africa’s
unresolved democratic transition.
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Governmentality, Biopolitics, De-agrarianization, Critical theory, South Africa
Citation
du Toit, A. (2018) Without the blanket of the land: agrarian change and biopolitics in post–Apartheid South Africa, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 45:5-6, 1086-1107, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2018.1518320