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Norval, Aletta J.

 
9781859841259: Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse
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ISBN 10: 1859841252 ISBN 13: 9781859841259
Casa editrice: Verso Books, 1996

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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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Aletta J. Norval teaches social theory at the University of Essex.

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Editore
Verso Books
Data di pubblicazione
1996
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1859841252
ISBN 13 
9781859841259
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
384
Contatto del produttore
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