Deconstructing Apartheid DiscourseVerso, 17/04/1996 - 388 من الصفحات With the demise of apartheid in South Africa and the movement towards a post-apartheid society in South Africa, questions concerning the nature of apartheid and the identities it fostered are inevitably raised. Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse addresses these issues by revealing both their historical specificity and their implications for the full development of a democratic post-apartheid order. The analysis covers the institution of apartheid as a new form of social division, the transformationist project which characterized it during the 1970s and 1980s, and the disarticulation of that project from the mid 1980s to the present. Central to this analysis is the contention that apartheid, as a failed hegemonic project, can only be understood in its full complexity if attention is given to the specificity of the mode of social division it instituted. The book thus seeks to trace the construction and contestation of the central axes around which its political frontiers were organized. Drawing on a combination of post-Marxist and post-structuralist theorizations of social division and identity formation, Norval develops an account of apartheid discourse which avoids the twin pitfalls of essentialism and objectivism. She offers an analysis of contending visions—including the discources of the far-right, Inkatha, the new National Party and the ANC—for the future of South Africa, and investigates the prospects for the elaboration of non-racialism as a new political imaginary. |
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Afrikaner community Afrikaner nationalism Afrikaner nationalist Afrikanerdom apartheid discourse apartheid project areas argued articulation attempts B.J. Vorster Bantu Botha coloured community coloureds and Indians Commission communist conception concern constitutional context crisis Cronje crucial cultural debate democracy democratic Diederichs discussion dislocation dominant economic elements emerged emphasis ethnic exclusion existence F.W. de Klerk formation Freedom Charter frontiers groups H.F. Verwoerd Hertzog homelands horizon Ibid identity imaginary important increasingly INEG influx control Inkatha instituted Johannesburg Klerk labour liberal logic Malan miscegenation movement myth National Party negotiation non-racialism non-white NP discourse P.W. Botha political Posel position possible precise Pretoria principle problem race racial reform relation resistance result SABRA segregation segregationism segregationist sense separate development social division society South Africa strategy struggle terrain townships trade unions traditional transformist project unity Verwoerd volk volksbeweging volkseie volkstaat Voortrekker Vorster workers