Hegemony and Resistance: Contesting Identities in South AfricaThis title was first published in 2000: An original explanation for the importance South Africans attachment to ethnic and racial group categories in everyday speech and practice. The answers emerge by presenting a history of dominant and resistance discourses as they relate to collective identity - a move which breaks with prevailing approaches to South African political history, problematises ethnic group categories and offers new ways of seeing old debates. |
Contents
The Construction of Subaltern Subjects | 10 |
Inventing a Tradition of Otherness the Contribution | 53 |
Apartheid | 106 |
Copyright | |
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Hegemony and Resistance: Contesting Identities in South Africa Thiven Reddy No preview available - 2017 |
Hegemony and Resistance: Contesting Identities in South Africa Thiven Reddy No preview available - 2019 |
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acceptance administration African allowed Antonio Gramsci Apartheid areas assumed authority Black Consciousness British Cape capital capitalist civil society collective colonial Colored commission conception considered constituted construction critical cultural determining discourse division dominant dominant discourse economic educated established ethnic European existing force forms frontier functions hegemony ideas identity ideology important included Indian industrialization institutions interests knowledge labor land language laws liberal London majority Marxist material means mining move movement Nationalist native nature notion organizations Party pass period person political position possible practices present principle privileged problem production question race racial refers relations relationship represented resistance role ruling savage segregation sense separation situation slaves social society South Africa space strategies structure struggle Studies subaltern suggests tradition trekboer tribal University Press urban workers York
References to this book
Negotiated Revolutions: The Czech Republic, South Africa and Chile George Lawson No preview available - 2005 |