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Title:The Regional Restructuring of Politics in Contemporary South Africa
Authors:MacCarthy, Jeffery J.
Wellings, Paul A.ISNI
Year:1989
Periodical:Social Dynamics
Volume:15
Issue:1
Period:June
Pages:75-93
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:regional development
class relations
political economy
Politics and Government
Ethnic and Race Relations
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02533958908458462
Abstract:The South African crisis of the mid-1980s gave rise to a set of political developments that have been characterized as those of 'regional restructuring'. These developments have become the focus of research for a wide range of social scientists. This paper critically evaluates the main contributions of these scientists and comments on how they have attempted to situate the regional political economy in South Africa with respect to class conflict and capitalist accumulation. In this materialistic approach the present authors discover some weaknesses: those of economism, functionalism and spatial fetishism. Their proposition is that the concepts of accumulation strategies and hegemonic projects, derived from B. Jessop (1985), together with the concept of local dependence, derived from K.R. Cox and A. Mair (1988), provide a realistic theoretical alternative to those perspectives that have been offered in the South African literature to date. Bibliogr., sum.
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