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18 Law Democracy & Dev. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/laacydev18 and id is 1 raw text is: Rights discourse and practices, everyday violence and social protests: Who counts as subject and whose lives are real in the neo-colonial South African nation state? LINDA STEWART Professor, Faculty of Law, North- West University 1 INTRODUCTION A concern for human rights shouldn't lead us to extol the 'joys' of the liberal capitalism of which they're an integral part. There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.' I seek to provide an explanation for the disjunction between the lived realities of marginalised, displaced and impoverished collectivities in the neo- colonial South African nation state and the language, politics and practices of human or constitutional rights that represent them. I focus on individuals I Deleuze G Negotiations (1995) (tr Joughin M) at 172-173. Page[ 1