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As Seekings and Nattrass (2005) have shown, in both the late apartheid period and the years since then, economic growth in South Africa has coexisted with rising numbers of unemployed, many of whom are now locked out of the labor market not temporarily but more or less permanently. This is not economic decline but a perverse sort of ascent. The picture that emerges is of what we might call a “snowball state in reverse”— rolling along nicely, but throwing people off (rather than picking them up) as it goes along.
Give a Man a Fish
James Ferguson
The core idea is that we are, each of us, individually responsible for structural injustice through and in virtue of our social roles.
What Is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice
Robin Zheng
__According to prevailing Western social norms, having a particularly strong ability to reason and to rise above the influence of emotions is a distinguishing trait of not only whiteness, but also masculinity, and the higher classes.__ Where feminine people are stereotypically seen in Western societies as emotional and whimsical, masculine people are typically viewed as more level-headed and analytical.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
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