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03853aam a2200445 i 4500 001 1390EEC40CF611EA99B9112E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191122010114 008 180521s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018024600 020 $a 0190847190 020 $a 9780190847197 020 $a 0190847182 020 $a 9780190847180 035 $a (OCoLC)1041202355 040 $a IEN/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d BDX $d COO $d GUA $d PUL $d LSD $d UKMGB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f-sa--- 050 00 $a HV9960.S6 $b S65 2019 100 1 $a Smith, Nicholas Rush, $e author. 245 10 $a Contradictions of democracy : $b vigilantism and rights in post-apartheid South Africa / $c Nicholas Rush Smith. 264 1 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xvii, 244 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index. 505 0 $a Vigilantism and the contradictions of democratic state formation -- The people's justice: historical antecedents of contemporary vigilantism -- Spectacles of state craft: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and post-apartheid law making -- Rights in translation: vigilantism and the meanings of institutional effectiveness and failure -- Taking charge: the contradictory pleasures of citizen crime fighting -- The risks and rewards of vigilantism -- The racial geographies of criminal panic: protesting crime in the suburbs -- Against vigilantism: citizen and state action to combat vigilantism -- Law-making and state-making as vigilantism. 520 8 $a Despite being one of the world's most vibrant democracies, police estimate between five and ten percent of the murders in South Africa result from vigilante violence. This is puzzling given the country's celebrated transition to democracy and massive reform of the state's legal institutions. Where most studies explain vigilantism as a response to state or civic failure, in Contradictions of Democracy, Nicholas Rush Smith illustrates that vigilantism is actually a response to the processes of democratic state formation. In the context of densely networked neighborhoods, vigilante citizens often interpret the technical success of legal institutions-for instance, the arrest and subsequent release of suspects on bail-as failure and work to correct such perceived failures on their own. Smith also shows that vigilantism provides a new lens through which to understand democratic state formation. Among young men of color in some parts of South Africa, fear of extra-judicial police violence is common. Amid such fear, instead of the state seeming protective, it can appear as something akin to a massive vigilante organization. An insightful look into the high rates of vigilantism in South Africa and the general challenges of democratic state building, Contradictions of Democracy explores fundamental questions about political order, the rule of law, and democratic citizenship. 650 0 $a Vigilantes $z South Africa. 650 0 $a Crime $x Government policy $z South Africa. 651 0 $a South Africa $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Crime $x Government policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00882995 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 650 7 $a Vigilantes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01166910 651 7 $a South Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204616 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 776 08 $i Online version: $a Smith, Nicholas Rush. $t Contradictions to democracy. $d New York : Oxford University Press, 2019 $z 0190847204 $w (OCoLC)1041564710 $w (OCoLC)1041564710 830 0 $a Oxford studies in culture & politics. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20200318012919.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1390EEC40CF611EA99B9112E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search