Craig Charney
Biographic Data
| ID | 308742 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Charney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Charney |
| SIGNATURE | CHARNEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Civil Society, Political Violence, and Democratic Transitions
On September 14, 1991, when the National Peace Accord was signed in Johannesburg, the cream of South Africa's political elite was there: future President Nelson Mandela, then President F. W. De Klerk, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, and other luminaries, new and old. But amid the politicians stood a different kind of figure, looking slightly out of place: a chubby, balding, middle-aged businessman named John Hall. Yet to the su…
From resistance to reconstruction
Shaun Johnson (ed.), South Africa: No Turning Back (Macmillan: London, 1988), 389 pp., £16.95 John Brewer (ed.), Can South Africa Survive? Five Minutes to Midnight (Macmillan: London, 1988), 350 pp, £16.99
Political power & social class in the neo‐colonial African state
Using Poulantzas' mode of analysis Charney provides a framework for understanding and periodising the state, and the phenomenon of ‘neocolonialism’ — often referred to, seldom defined. It shows that the neo‐colonial state has a different basis for ‘hegemony‘—clientelism—than in the centre states, and that it is particularist not ‘national’. It also explores the circumstances under which there could be a break up of the dominant class basis of and…
Fighting the Good Fight
Review of The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 edited by Ronald Lawson.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Thinking of Revolution
A group of students demonstrating against apartheid advance slowly toward a row of South African policemen blocking their path. When they ignore an order to disperse, the police charge, wielding whips and batons, pursuing the protesters all over the university campus.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Rev…
The politics of changing partners — control and co‐option in the new South African constitution
Class conflict and the National Party split
The split in South Africa's ruling National Party (NP) delivered the coup de grace to the traditional image of white South African politics as a contest between Englishand Afrikaans-speakers, but the new conventional wisdoms are hardly more satisfactory. After the myth of the Afrikaner monolith was shown up by the events of February and March 1982, most observers switched from ethnic to ideological analysis, attributing them to the differences in…
La renaissance syndicale noire en Afrique du Sud, 1973-1983
Charney Craig. La renaissance syndicale noire en Afrique du Sud, 1973-1983. In: Politique africaine, n°15, 1984. Images de la diaspora noire. pp. 97-113
Towards Rupture or Stasis? An Analysis of the 1981 South African General Election
The results of the 1981 white general election in South Africa seemed paradoxical to many observers. After three decades in which white politics appeared dominated by the unchallengeable hegemony of the ruling National Party, white party politics seemed to have taken on a new turbulence and uncertainty. The Sunday Times reported, "Nat Voters Bolt to the Right", while the Transvaler headlined a "Leftwards swing". Very few seats actually changed ha…
Political power & social class in the neo‐colonial African state
Using Poulantzas' mode of analysis Charney provides a framework for understanding and periodising the state, and the phenomenon of ‘neocolonialism’ — often referred to, seldom defined. It shows that the neo‐colonial state has a different basis for ‘hegemony‘—clientelism—than in the centre states, and that it is particularist not ‘national’. It also explores the circumstances under which there could be a break up of the dominant class basis of and…
Class conflict and the National Party split
The split in South Africa's ruling National Party (NP) delivered the coup de grace to the traditional image of white South African politics as a contest between Englishand Afrikaans-speakers, but the new conventional wisdoms are hardly more satisfactory. After the myth of the Afrikaner monolith was shown up by the events of February and March 1982, most observers switched from ethnic to ideological analysis, attributing them to the differences in…
Civil Society, Political Violence, and Democratic Transitions
On September 14, 1991, when the National Peace Accord was signed in Johannesburg, the cream of South Africa's political elite was there: future President Nelson Mandela, then President F. W. De Klerk, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, and other luminaries, new and old. But amid the politicians stood a different kind of figure, looking slightly out of place: a chubby, balding, middle-aged businessman named John Hall. Yet to the su…
From resistance to reconstruction
Shaun Johnson (ed.), South Africa: No Turning Back (Macmillan: London, 1988), 389 pp., £16.95 John Brewer (ed.), Can South Africa Survive? Five Minutes to Midnight (Macmillan: London, 1988), 350 pp, £16.99
Towards Rupture or Stasis? An Analysis of the 1981 South African General Election
The results of the 1981 white general election in South Africa seemed paradoxical to many observers. After three decades in which white politics appeared dominated by the unchallengeable hegemony of the ruling National Party, white party politics seemed to have taken on a new turbulence and uncertainty. The Sunday Times reported, "Nat Voters Bolt to the Right", while the Transvaler headlined a "Leftwards swing". Very few seats actually changed ha…
The politics of changing partners — control and co‐option in the new South African constitution
Towards Rupture or Stasis? An Analysis of the 1981 South African General Election
The results of the 1981 white general election in South Africa seemed paradoxical to many observers. After three decades in which white politics appeared dominated by the unchallengeable hegemony of the ruling National Party, white party politics seemed to have taken on a new turbulence and uncertainty. The Sunday Times reported, "Nat Voters Bolt to the Right", while the Transvaler headlined a "Leftwards swing". Very few seats actually changed ha…
The politics of changing partners — control and co‐option in the new South African constitution
Class conflict and the National Party split
The split in South Africa's ruling National Party (NP) delivered the coup de grace to the traditional image of white South African politics as a contest between Englishand Afrikaans-speakers, but the new conventional wisdoms are hardly more satisfactory. After the myth of the Afrikaner monolith was shown up by the events of February and March 1982, most observers switched from ethnic to ideological analysis, attributing them to the differences in…
La renaissance syndicale noire en Afrique du Sud, 1973-1983
Charney Craig. La renaissance syndicale noire en Afrique du Sud, 1973-1983. In: Politique africaine, n°15, 1984. Images de la diaspora noire. pp. 97-113
Thinking of Revolution
A group of students demonstrating against apartheid advance slowly toward a row of South African policemen blocking their path. When they ignore an order to disperse, the police charge, wielding whips and batons, pursuing the protesters all over the university campus.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Rev…
Political power & social class in the neo‐colonial African state
Using Poulantzas' mode of analysis Charney provides a framework for understanding and periodising the state, and the phenomenon of ‘neocolonialism’ — often referred to, seldom defined. It shows that the neo‐colonial state has a different basis for ‘hegemony‘—clientelism—than in the centre states, and that it is particularist not ‘national’. It also explores the circumstances under which there could be a break up of the dominant class basis of and…
Fighting the Good Fight
Review of The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 edited by Ronald Lawson.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
From resistance to reconstruction
Shaun Johnson (ed.), South Africa: No Turning Back (Macmillan: London, 1988), 389 pp., £16.95 John Brewer (ed.), Can South Africa Survive? Five Minutes to Midnight (Macmillan: London, 1988), 350 pp, £16.99
Civil Society, Political Violence, and Democratic Transitions
On September 14, 1991, when the National Peace Accord was signed in Johannesburg, the cream of South Africa's political elite was there: future President Nelson Mandela, then President F. W. De Klerk, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, and other luminaries, new and old. But amid the politicians stood a different kind of figure, looking slightly out of place: a chubby, balding, middle-aged businessman named John Hall. Yet to the su…
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