The Contested Idea of South Africa

Herausgeber: Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.; Ngcaweni, Busani

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9780367353599
• ISBN-10: 0367353598
• Artikelnr.: 62274646

Autorenporträt

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South at the University of Bayreuth in Germany and Visiting Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Johannesburg. Busani Ngcaweni is Director-General of the National School of Government, Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Wits School of Governance, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg and Visiting Adjunct Professor at Soochow University in China.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, SC Part 1: Major Debates on the Contested
Idea of South Africa Chapter 1 Introduction: Why is the Idea of South
Africa Contested, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Busani Ngcaweni Chapter 2
The Idea of South Africa: Opening the Pandora's Box Sabelo J.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni Chapter 3 Towards a Closer Union: Race, Citizenship and the
Contested Idea of South Africa Bongani Ngqulunga Chapter 4 In Search of
Indigeneity: Autochthony, the Colonial Construction of Identity and the
Politics of Post-Apartheid Ethnicity Tlhabane Dan Motaung Chapter 5 The
Foundations of South African Modernity Kenneth Tafira Part 2: The Idea of
South Africa in Intellectaul Imaginations Chapter 6 The Intellectual
Sigularity of H.I.E. Dhlomo in the Evolution of the Idea of South Africa
Ntongela Masilela Chapter 7 Mafeje and Magubane: Two Concepts of the
'African Revolution' Bongani Nyoka Chapter 8 Achille Mbembe on the Idea of
South Africa Tendayi Sithole Chapter 9 Prose and Poetry: Shining Light on
the Popular Imagination of the Idea of South Africa Athol Williams PART
THREE: On Spatial Justice and Land Reform Chapter 10: Ideologies,
Discourses and Vectors of African Urbanism in the Making of South African
Cities Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane Saka Langwenya Chapter 11: Land
Expropriation with Compensation: A Case of Social Justice? Muxe Nkondo
Chapter 12: The Idea of a 'Rainbow Nation' and the Persistence of Agrarian
Injustices in Post-Apartheid South Africa Grasian Mkodzongi and Clemence
Rusenga Chapter 13: Theorising Ethnic Nationalism within the KZN Rural Land
Tenure Debate Fundi Skweyiya PART FOUR: Social Cohesion and its Discontents
Chapter 14: The Question of Coloniality of Gender in the 'New' South Africa
Akhona Nkenkana Chapter 15: Ethinicity and Politics of Belonging in South
Africa: The Case of the Ndebele Identity Sifiso Ndlovu Chapter 16:
Negotiating Meaningful Citizenship in the Zone of Exclusion: The Impact of
Racism on Belonging in the New South Africa Kgabo Morifi and Malaika Lesego
Samora Mahlatsi Chapter 17: The NDP and the Idea of South Africa:
Incongruities and Prospects for Social Inclusion Busani Ngcaweni and Anver
Saloojee