Publisher's Synopsis
This long-awaited, ground-breaking work is a book unlike any other. Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto is a monumental and authoritative study of the phenomenon of apartheid and its prevalence in the world. It proposes the establishment of an interdisciplinary new field of study from the global south known as apartheid studies (AS). The Manifesto is truly a landmark. It is the founding document and constitutive invitation to the first-of-its-kind, formal study of apartheid. We are shown, with amazing depth and clarity, that apartheid takes forms that are very different to what we have been told or what we ordinarily assume. For the first time, apartheid is systematically defined, and its full range of meanings, tendencies, and applications examined. How does oppression persist? The answer is found in the exposition, construct, theoretical framework, and paradigm of apartheid. In Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto, Nyasha Mboti has developed the world's first general theory of apartheid - an o
