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Contents

Foreword by Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Politics is thought, thought is real, people think

Part 1 Thinking political sequences: From African history to African historical political sequences

1.Theoretical introduction: Understanding historical political sequences

2.From Saint-Domingue to Haiti: The politics of freedom and equality, 1791–1960

3.Are those-who-do-not-count capable of reason? On the limits of historical thought

4.The National Liberation Struggle mode of politics in Africa, 1945–1975

5.The People’s Power mode of politics in South Africa, 1984–1986

6.From national emancipation to national chauvinism in South Africa, 1973–2013

7.Rethinking militancy in the current sequence: Beyond politics as agency

8.Understanding fidelity to the South African emancipatory event: The Treatment Action Campaign and Abahlali baseMjondolo

Part 2 Opening up the thought of politics in Africa today: Exceeding the limits of sociology: Beyond representation

9.Theoretical introduction: Social representation, modes of rule and political prescriptions

10.Marxism and the politics of representation: The ‘agrarian question’ and the limits of political economy – class, nation and the party-state

11.Thinking beyond representation, acting beyond representation: Accounting for worker subjectivities in South Africa

12.Renaming the state in Africa today

13.Domains of state politics and systemic violence: The concept of ‘uncivil society’

14.The domain of civil society and its politics

15.The domain of traditional society and its politics

16.Towards a politics of solidarity: Feminist contributions

Conclusion: Reclaiming the domain of freedom

Bibliography

Index