| Politics By Other Means: Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980-1994 Contributor(s): Abel, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415908175 ISBN-13: 9780415908177 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1995 Annotation: "Politics by Other Means" explores the fundamental question--how can law constrain political power--by offering a pathbreaking account of the triumphant final decade of the struggle against apartheid. Because blacks lacked political power and posed no real military threat, law played a central role in their resistance to white rule. Even though South Africa lacked both a bill of rights and a tradition of judges reviewing governmental abuses, lawyers won major victories, which exposed the vulnerability of the white regime and invigorated the opposition. Richard Abel presents case studies of ten major campaigns, including challenges to the pass laws, black trade union demands for recognition, state terror, censorship, conscientious objection, resistance to the "independent" homelands and treason trials. These stories bring the conflict vividly to life by using the words of their protagonists, drawn from court records, parliamentary debates, dozens of South African newspapersand interviews with lawyers, parties and witnesses. Politics by Other Means will be essential reading for anyone interesed in the struggle against apartheid and, more generally, the power of law to defend and serve oppressed people. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Civil Procedure |
| Dewey: 347.302 |
| LCCN: 94-29579 |
| Series: After the Law |
| Physical Information: 1.36" H x 6.06" W x 9.02" (2.00 lbs) 668 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Politics by Other Means explores the fundamental question of how law can constrain political power by offering a pathbreaking account of the triumphant final decade of the struggle against apartheid. Richard Abel presents case studies of ten major legal campaigns including: challenges to pass laws; black trade union demands for recognition; state terror; censorship; resistance to the "independent" homelands; and treason trials. |