What may democratic citizens hope for? In order to answer this question, this article takes its cue from John Rawls's notion of reasonable hope. Rawls is acutely aware of a tension we face in ...demarcating the limits of hope in democratic politics, yet fails to resolve it: hope should allow us to critically distance ourselves from the existing social world, yet not be entirely disconnected from it. In order to do justice to both desiderata, I propose to distinguish between individual and collective levels of reasonable hope, with democratic institutions and practices mediating between the two.
By returning to a pivotal moment in South African history - the Cape Colony in the period 1770-1830 - this book addresses current debates about nationalism colonialism and neo-colonialism and ...postcolonial/post-apartheid culture.
Knowledge and Colonialism examines writings and drawings of eighteenth-century scientific travellers in South Africa against the background of administrative and commercial discourses. It is argued ...that these travellers benefited more from their relationship with the colonial order than the other way around.
