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Title

The contested idea of South Africa / edited by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Busani Ngcaweni.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
• ©2022

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Additional Authors

• Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.
• Ngcaweni, Busani

Description

xx, 325 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Ever since the delineation of South Africa as a country, the many diverse groups of people contained within its borders have struggled to translate a mere geographical description into the identity of a people. Today the new struggles for South Africa' and to become South African' are inextricably intertwined with complex challenges of transformation, xenophobia, claims of reverse racism, social justice, economic justice, service delivery, and the resurgent decolonization struggles reverberating inside the universities. This book covers the genealogy of the idea of South Africa, exploring how the country has been conceived of by a broad group of actors, including the British, Afrikaners, diverse African nationalist traditions, and new formations such as the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Black First Land First (BLF), and student formations (Rhodes Must Fall & Fees Must Fall). Over the course of the book, a broad range of themes are covered, including identity formation, modernity, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, autochthony, land, gender, intellectual traditions, poetics of South Africanness, language, popular culture, truth and reconciliation, and national development planning. Concluding with important reflections on how a colonial imaginary can be changed into a free and inclusive postcolonial nation-state, this book will be an important read for Africanist researchers from across the humanities and social sciences.

Series Statement

Routledge contemporary South Africa

Uniform Title

Routledge contemporary South Africa.

Subject

• Manners and customs
• Politics and government
• Race relations
• Social conditions
• South Africa
• South Africa > Race relations > History
• South Africa > Social conditions
• South Africa > Social life and customs
• South Africa > Politics and government

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-17489

ISBN

• 9780367353599
• 0367353598

OCLC

1272886845

Title

The contested idea of South Africa / edited by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Busani Ngcaweni.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge contemporary South Africa

Routledge contemporary South Africa.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: UNIV OF BAYREUTH. GENEALOGY DRAWS ON RANGE OF DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES.

Added Author

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., editor.

Ngcaweni, Busani, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-17489