Rebuilding Hegemony: Passive Revolution, State Transformation, and South Africa's Steel Sector

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2021.1937091" target="_blank" >10.1080/03056244.2021.1937091</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Rebuilding Hegemony: Passive Revolution, State Transformation, and South Africa's Steel Sector

Original language description

This paper draws on Gramscian concepts to analyse the ongoing transformation of the South African state. In particular, it conceptualizes the Jacob Zuma administration&apos;s (2009 - 2018) attempt to establish an east-Asian inspired developmental state as an ongoing passive revolution, undertaken in the hopes of bolstering the ruling blocs&apos; struggling hegemonic project. The paper argues that the implementation of the developmental state framework has transformed the role and character of the state apparatus vis-a-vis economic processes. Drawing on data collected over 9 months of fieldwork, this paper details three major transformations: a shift towards what ostensibly appears as state capitalism, the increased leveraging/privileging of outbound Global South-based capital; and the construction of novel intra-state alliances. The theoretical insights are then grounded via an examination of South Africa&apos;s steel sector. In this manner, the article adds to the literature on South Africa&apos;s post-apartheid political economy and new geographies of South-South engagement.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Review of African Political Economy

ISSN

0305-6244

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

48

Issue of the periodical within the volume

169

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

352-368

UT code for WoS article

000680291700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85111755369