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| Title: | Rebuilding the Future or Revisiting the Past? Post-Apartheid Afrikaner Politics |
| Author: | Davies, Rebecca |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 112 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 353-370 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | Afrikaners group identity political economy globalization Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations |
| External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240701449737 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4046A26333911D008B69 |
| Abstract: | Orthodox analyses have presented a bleak future for the Afrikaner community in contemporary South Africa, subjugated under the stewardship of a State entirely dominated by an African National Congress (ANC) government that is broadly aligned against Afrikaner interests. This paper clarifies the changes and tensions apparent within a very heterodox Afrikaner community, as well as the mutually empowering linkages between the globalized political economy and various domestic social forces, by presenting a political economy of postapartheid Afrikaner identifications and diversity. What this focus does is to emphasize the global political economy and closely associated ideology of globalization as a major catalyst for change in these identifications. It highlights how Afrikaner identity politics are situated within broader hegemony-seeking processes, both globally and within South Africa. And it demonstrates that contemporary struggles around Afrikaner identifications are responses to a global neoliberal hegemonic project that also determines, in large measure, the political and economic agenda pursued by the ANC-led government in South Africa. The paper forms part of a larger project to provide a richer, more critical framework of analysis for understanding identity politics under conditions of increasing globalization. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
