After Mandela

What happens when a political revolution arrives just as the world itself is changing?
In ‚After Mandela‘, renowned anthropologist John Comaroff, former Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and Anthropology at Harvard University, looks beyond the myth of Nelson Mandela to explore a much larger story: the transition from one historical era to another. Mandela becomes a lens through which Comaroff examines neoliberalism, generational conflict, rising inequality, the collapse of old political certainties, and the unfinished promises of democracy. What begins in South Africa ultimately speaks to crises unfolding across the globe.
A powerful reflection on historical time, political change, and the futures we have yet to imagine...
(Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
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