The power and limits of the emergency state
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1989-08
Authors
Swilling, Mark
Phillips, Mark
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Abstract
This paper is an assessment of the strategies, structures and resources that
the Emergency State has deployed to fight its battles on the "political
terrain" (1). We intend demonstrating that a new set of strategies are being
implemented in response to the failure in the face of mass resistance of the
early "total strategy" reforms. While capital and the popular classes have
pursued in their own ways a range of strategies to transform apartheid, the
state (and the interests that dominate it) has been able to mobilise enormous
resources and coordinate ambitious policies to respond to these challenges.
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African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented August 1989
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War and emergency powers. South Africa