Thiven Reddy is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town. His previous publications include Hegemony and Resistance: Contesting Identities in South Africa.

Harnessing sophisticated scholarly literature on the subject, [Reddy] argues that South Africa's past as a settler colony ruled for decades by authoritarian white supremacists has made its transition to liberal democracy particularly difficult.

• Introduction1. Modernity: civil society, political society and the vulnerable2. The limits of the conventional paradigm, modernity and South African democracy3. The Fanonian paradigm, settler colonialism and South African democracy4. The colonial state and settler-colonial modernism5. Nationalism, ANC and domination without hegemony6. Elites, masses and democratic change7. Crisis of the national modern: democracy, the state and ANC dominanceConclusion

Thiven Reddy is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town. His previous publications include Hegemony and Resistance: Contesting Identities in South Africa.

Harnessing sophisticated scholarly literature on the subject, [Reddy] argues that South Africa's past as a settler colony ruled for decades by authoritarian white supremacists has made its transition to liberal democracy particularly difficult.

• Introduction1. Modernity: civil society, political society and the vulnerable2. The limits of the conventional paradigm, modernity and South African democracy3. The Fanonian paradigm, settler colonialism and South African democracy4. The colonial state and settler-colonial modernism5. Nationalism, ANC and domination without hegemony6. Elites, masses and democratic change7. Crisis of the national modern: democracy, the state and ANC dominanceConclusion

Thiven Reddy is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town. His previous publications include Hegemony and Resistance: Contesting Identities in South Africa.

Harnessing sophisticated scholarly literature on the subject, [Reddy] argues that South Africa's past as a settler colony ruled for decades by authoritarian white supremacists has made its transition to liberal democracy particularly difficult.

• Introduction1. Modernity: civil society, political society and the vulnerable2. The limits of the conventional paradigm, modernity and South African democracy3. The Fanonian paradigm, settler colonialism and South African democracy4. The colonial state and settler-colonial modernism5. Nationalism, ANC and domination without hegemony6. Elites, masses and democratic change7. Crisis of the national modern: democracy, the state and ANC dominanceConclusion