Introduction. Political reconfigurations in the wake of Marikana / Prishani Naidoo -- pt. 1. New political directions? -- Reconstituting and re-imagining the left after Marikana / Noor Nieftagodien -- Labour and community struggles 1994-2014 / Marcel Paret -- Half full or half empty? The Numsa moments and the prospects of left revitalisation / Devan Pillay -- pt. 2. Economy, ecology and labour -- Introduction to Part 2 / Devan Pillay -- The South African economy: the minerals-energy-finance complex redubbed? / Samantha Ashman -- Between a rock and a hard place: state-business relations in the mining sector / Ross Harvey -- The platinum belt strike wave: breakdown in the institutionalisation of industrial conflict / Crispen Chinguno -- When gold mining ends: an environmental catastrophe for Johannesburg? / Anthony Turton -- pt. 3. State and society -- Introduction to Part 3 / Roger Southall -- Constitutionalism: an 'unqualified human good'? / Pierre de Vos -- People's parliament: Do citizens influence South Africa's legislatures? / Samantha Waterhouse -- Corruption/ Ivor Sarakinsky -- Marikana and the politics of public order policing / Monique Marks and David Bruce -- 'In December we are rich, in January we are poor': consumption, saving, stealing and insecurity in the kasi / David Dickinson -- pt. 4. South Africa in the international arena -- Introduction to Part 4 / Gilbert M. Khadiagala-- The evolution of South Africa's foreign policy / Garth le Pere -- South Africa, the BRICS and human rights: in bad company? / Karen Smith -- Trading with the frenemy: how South Africa depends on African trade / Rod Alence.
Summary:
This fifth volume in the New South African Review series takes as its starting point the shock wave emanating from the events at Marikana on 16 August 2012 and how it has reverberated throughout politics and society. Some of the chapters in the volume refer directly to Marikana. In others, the infl uence of that fateful day is pervasive if not direct. Marikana has, for instance, made us look differently at the police and at how order is imposed on society. Monique Marks and David Bruce write that the massacre 'has come to hold a central place in the analysis of policing, and broader political events since 2012 ...'.The chapters highlight a range of current concerns - political, economic and social. David Dickinson's chapter looks at the life of the poor in a township from within. In contrast, the chapter on foreign policy by Garth le Pere analyses South Africa's approach to international relations in the Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma eras. Anthony Turton's account, 'When gold mining ends' is a chilling forecast of an impending environmental catastrophe. Both Devan Pillay and Noor Nieftagodien focus attention on the left and, in different ways, ascribe its rise to a new politics in the wake of Marikana.The essays in Beyond Marikana present a range of topics and perspectives of interest to general readers, but the book will also be a useful work of reference for students and researchers.
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