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Title:Rebuilding the Future or Revisiting the Past? Post-Apartheid Afrikaner Politics
Author:Davies, RebeccaISNI
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]
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