An interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what 'the social' might mean after apartheid.
Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what 'the social' might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as 'the post-apartheid social'. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of South Africa between 1948 and 1994 and foregrounds the tension between the weight of lived experience that was and is apartheid, the structures that condition that experience and a desire for a 'post-apartheid social' (think unity through difference). Collectively, the contributors argue for a recognition of the 'the post-apartheid' as a condition that names the labour of coming to terms with the ordering principles that apartheid both set in place and foreclosed. The volume seeks to provide a sense of the terrain on which 'the post-apartheid' - as a desire for a difference that is not apartheid's difference - unfolds, falters and is worked through.

Maurits van Bever Donker has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Minnesota and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape. Ross Truscott holds a PhD from the University of Fort Hare, carried out under the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARCHI) in Social Change and is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in Women's Studies at Duke University. Premesh Lalu is a Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape. Gary Minkley currently holds the National Research Foundation (NRF) SARChI Chair in Social Change at the University of Fort Hare in East London, South Africa.

Preface
Gary Minkley
Introduction - Traversing the Social - Maurits van Bever Donker, Ross Truscott, Gary Minkley and Premesh Lalu
Chapter 1 - The Mandela Imaginary: Reflections on Post-Reconciliation Libidinal Economy - Derek Hook
Chapter 2 - The Return of Empathy: Postapartheid Fellow Feeling - Ross Truscott
Chapter 3 - The Ethics of Precarity: Judith Butler's Reluctant Universalism - Mari Ruti
Chapter 4 - Hannah Arendt's Work of Mourning: The Politics of Loss, 'the Rise of the Social' and the Ends of Apartheid - Jaco Barnard-Naudé
Chapter 5 - Souvenir - Annemarie Lawless
Chapter 6 - Re-Cover: Afrikaans Rock, Apartheid's Children and the Work of the Cover - Aidan Erasmus
Chapter 7 - The Graves of Dimbaza: Temporal Remains - Gary Minkley and Helena Pohlandt-McCormick
Chapter 8 - The Principle of Insufficiency: Ethics and Community at the Edge of the Social - Maurits van Bever Donker
Chapter 9 - The Trojan Horse and the 'Becoming Technical of the Human' - Premesh Lalu