Ethics, Politics, Inequality: New Directions
  • 2021/430 pages
  • State of the Nation
    Distributed for HSRC Press

Ethics, Politics, Inequality:

New Directions

Narnia Bohler-Muller, Crain Soudien, and Vasu Reddy, editors
Paperback: $39.95
ISBN: 978-0-7969-2596-1
Ebook: $39.95
ISBN: 978-0-7969-2614-2
Multilayered inequalities and a sense of insecurity have long been hallmarks of South African life—but now have been exacerbated by the uncertainties of Covid-19. Ethics, Politics, Inequality reflects on a range of political and socioeconomic interventions, based on an ethics of care, needed to help South Africans navigate the roiling currents of the "new normal."

This latest volume in the State of the Nation series calls for active citizenship and the will and understanding to combat poverty and inequality, which in turn would bring a reconsideration of the domination, oppression, injustice, and paternalism within the democratic postapartheid state.
Narnia Bohler-Muller is divisional executive of the Developmental, Capable, and Ethical State research program at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). Crain Soudien is  professor emeritus of education and African studies at the University of Cape Town. Vasu Reddy is vice chancellor for research and internationalization at the University of the Free State.