Managing Vulnerability: South Africa's Struggle for a Democratic Rhetoric

A detailed account of the struggle to cultivate connectedness out of the divisiveness of apartheid

In Managing Vulnerability, Richard C. Marback analyzes the tension surrounding the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa through a rhetorical lens. Marback studies the heart of South Africa's desire for reconciliation and contends that this goal could be achieved only through the creation of a language of vulnerability in which former enemies become open to the influence of eac...