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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kate Lefko-Everett , Rajen Govender , Don FosterPublisher: HSRC Press Imprint: HSRC Press Weight: 0.645kg ISBN: 9780796925541ISBN 10: 0796925542 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 01 March 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Measuring social change in South Africa Part 1 Transitional justice Truth, redress and reconciliation: Evaluating transitional justice from below A comparison of the reconciliation barometers in South Africa and Rwanda Part 2 Social relationships Contact and reconciliation Urbanisation, racial desegregation and the changing character of interracial contact Part 3 Transformation The social consequences of class formation among black South Africans in the 2000s Affirmative action in the workplace: From numbers to dialogue Rejuvenating reconciliation with transformation Part 4 Political participation and institutions Does political trust lead to reconciliation? Why postapartheid South Africans rebel: Social protest, public participation and trust in institutions Parties and elections as instruments of reconciliation and social cohesion Part 5 Identity Building a nation: Considering uncertain outcomes The surprising growth in minority support for the ‘rainbow nation’ Conclusion The South African error: Restorative justice sans social recompenseReviewsAuthor InformationKate Lefko-Everett is an independent social science researcher and a Senior Associate at the IJR. She previously was employed by the IJR as senior project leader for the SARB (2009 – 2013), and conceptualised the edited volume during that time. She has published widely, including in the popular press, contributions to edited volumes (including the State of the Nation 2014, published by the HSRC) and in peer reviewed journals. Recent articles include: Leaving it to the Children: Non-Racialism, Identity, Socialisation and Generational Change in South Africa (book chapter, London and New York: Routledge, 2014); and Beyond race?: Exploring indicators of (dis)advantage to achieve SA equity goals (article, Transformation, No 79, 2012). She has a BA from Vassar College (New York, USA) and a Masters in Applied Social Research from Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Rajen Govender is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a SeniorResearch Fellow at the Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR). He previously served Professor of Economics at Tshwane University of Technology. He has taught at various universities in South Africa and the USA over the past 25 years, and since 1995 founded and managed a successful research consultancy doing national and international work in the public, private and civil society sectors. He has a BA and Honours from UKZN, an MA from New York University, and an MA and PhD from UCLA. His doctorate examined various models positing relative deprivation and organisational mobilisation as explanations for political activism. His specialisation is in political psychology, research design and quantitative methods. Professor Govender has also worked closely with the IJR in the development, design and testing of the next iteration of the SARB survey, due to go into the field in mid-2015. Don Foster is Professor of Psychology at UCT, and an internationally established expert in this field. He has published widely, including through the HSRC Press, with titles including: Detention and torture in South Africa (co-authored with D Davis and D Sandler, Cape Town: David Philip, 1987); Perspectives on metal handicap in South Africa (co-authored with S Lea, Durban: Butterworths, 1990); Social psychology in South Africa (co-edited with J Louw-Potgieter, Johannesburg: Lexicon, 1991); Towards peaceful protest in South Africa (co-authored with P Heymann, L Brown, C Fijnaut et al, Pretoria: HSRC, 1992); and Mental health policy issues for South Africa (co-edited with J M Freeman and Y Pillay, Cape Town: MASA Multimedia, 1997). Professor Foster is a long-serving Board member of the IJR. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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