Imagining The Post Apartheid State
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Imagining the Post Apartheid State
Author | : John T. Friedman |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780857450913 |
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In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State. By elucidating the State through a focus on the social, historical and cultural processes that help constitute it, this study helps chart new territory for anthropology, and it contributes an ethnographic perspective to a wider set of interdisciplinary debates on the State and state processes.
Re imagining the Social in South Africa
Author | : Heather Jacklin,Peter C. J. Vale |
Publsiher | : University of Kwazulu Natal Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Discourse analysis |
ISBN | : 1869141792 |
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As apartheid ended, why did the South African academy shift from critique to subservience? Why have common sense explanations of the social world of South Africans replaced searching questions? Why are conversations on social issues in South Africa controlled by technology, management, and, until their recent collapse, the idea of markets? Why has serious thought in the new South Africa become an indecent activity? These, and other, questions are at the heart of this book, which brings social theory to bear on social practice to disrupt received conceptions and representations of the social in post-apartheid South Africa. This subversive volume seeks to revive the tradition of intellectual argument that marked apartheid's final years. Using critical theoretical perspectives, the contributors offer explanations of narrowly focused, post-apartheid discourses, and imagine different orderings of contemporary South African life. Re-imagining the Social in South Africa revitalizes thinking on 21st-century South Africa by positioning the humanities, especially its critical spirit, at the very center of the national conversation.
South African Gothic
Author | : Rebecca Duncan |
Publsiher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2018-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781786832474 |
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The term ‘Gothic’ has rarely been brought to bear on contemporary South African fictions, appearing too fanciful for the often overtly political writing of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. As the first book-length exploration of Gothic impulses in South African literature, this volume accounts for the Gothic currents that run through South African imaginaries from the late-nineteenth century onwards. South African Gothic identifies an intensification in Gothic production that begins with the nascent decline of the apartheid state, and relates this to real anxieties that arise with the unfolding of social and political change. In the context of a South Africa unmaking and reshaping itself, Gothic emerges as a language for long-suppressed histories of violence, and for ongoing experiences at odds with utopian images of the new democracy. Its function is interrogative and ultimately creative: South African Gothic challenges narrow conceptions of the status quo to drive at alternative, less exclusionary visions.
South Africa s Dreams
Author | : Robert J. Gordon |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2021-02-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781789209754 |
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In the early sixties, South Africa’s colonial policies in Namibia served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive ‘Grand Apartheid’ infrastructure, including strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. Exposing the role that anthropologists played, this book analyses how the knowledge used to justify and implement apartheid was created. Understanding these practices and the ways in which South Africa’s experiences in Namibia influenced later policy at home is also critically evaluated, as is the matter of adjudicating the many South African anthropologists who supported the regime.
Imagining the Cape Colony
Author | : David Johnson |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780748650873 |
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This volume explores how the Cape Colony was imagined as a political community by considering a variety of writers, from major European literati and intellectuals (Camoes, Southey, Rousseau, Adam Smith), to well-known travel writers like Francois Levaillant and Lady Anne Barnard, to figures on the margins of colonial histories, like settler rebels, slaves and early African nationalists. Complementing the analyses of these primary texts are discussions of the many subsequent literary works and histories of the Cape Colony.
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
Author | : William Beinart,Saul Dubow |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2021-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108837088 |
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An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.
Towards a Contextualized Conceptualization of Social Justice for Post Apartheid Namibia
Author | : Basilius M. Kasera |
Publsiher | : Langham Publishing |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2024-05-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781786410108 |
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The search for justice, beyond the basic political understanding, is profoundly theological and ethical. In this work, Dr. Basilius M. Kasera analyses the meaning of justice in post-apartheid Namibia from a biblical perspective. He argues that notions of justice carry no meaning unless they emanate from the community of the affected. Every group of people, by virtue of being God’s image-bearers, are able to assess their own context and provide befitting solutions. However this kind of agency has not been afforded to the post-apartheid Namibian society, which continues to operate on borrowed models of justice. While extrapolating on Allan Boesak’s beneficial theological concepts of justice, Dr. Kasera encourages theologians and Christians at large to participate in the creation of meaningful, effective, and transformative policies, programmes, practices, systems, and justice institutions.
Imagining Mass Dictatorships
Author | : M. Schoenhals,K. Sarsenov |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2013-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137330697 |
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This volume in the series Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century series sees twelve Swedish, Korean and Japanese scholars, theorists, and historians of fiction and non-fiction probe the literary subject of life in 20th century mass dictatorships.