Black worker attitudes: political options, capitalism & investment in South Africa
In: Document and memorandum series / Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Natal, 26
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In: Document and memorandum series / Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Natal, 26
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In: Kulturen und Konflikte im Vergleich. Comparing Cultures and Conflicts, S. 452-460
In: https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31867
The candidate has two major linked interests. One is to reconcile competing explanations of ethnicity, and the other is to explore the factors underlying ethnicity in the light of a case study of the rise and decline of ethnic mobilisation among white Afrikaners in South Africa. For many observers the recent apparent "decomposition" of Afrikaner nationalist mobilisation has been surprising, and the factors associated with this trend were expected to contain insights relevant to the theoretical debate. The first part of the thesis is a review of key aspects of literature which offers alternative explanations of ethnic attachments and mobilisation. It commences with a theme-setting example of a reconciliation of alternative viewpoints. At the end of the literature review a series of propositions is offered, suggesting the utility of an integration of alternative perspectives. The case study of Afrikaner ethnic mobilisation commences with a historical overview of the emergence of Afrikaner ethnic nationalism, from the early colonial settlement up to the present. Thereafter a wide range of empirical, survey-based evidence is presented, including exploratory factor analyses, covering patterns in the cultural, racial, socio-economic and political attitudes of Afrikaners, comparing their responses with those of other South Africans. An account of recent political change and the responses of Afrikaners to the events is given. In the final chapter conclusions drawn from the evidence are presented as further propositions in a broader theoretical context. The fragmentation of Afrikaner ethnic nationalism is found to be associated with the bureaucratization of ethnicity during the period of apartheid rule, ambivalence on group boundaries, the usurpation of cultural identity by race, and a breakdown of internal coordination processes which ethnic mobilisation appears to require. At the same time a core of ethnic commitment, substantially independent of its material and political utility, is found to persist, surrounded by a wider compound of racial, cultural and political consciousness. Alternative scenarios of probable future developments are tentatively offered. The analysis appears to support the initial argument that ethnic mobilisation involves full combinations of the processes which competing theories usually pit against one another. The process of ethnic mobilisation involves a variable incorporation of elements of class, group status and honour and political activation, in which identity commitment, co-ordinating agencies and ethnic boundary-construction interact as defining and integrating elements.
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In: South African journal of sociology: Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir sosiologie, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 16-23
In: SAIS review, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 107-124
ISSN: 1088-3142
In: SAIS review / School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, Band 9, S. 107-124
ISSN: 0036-0775
Strategies for changing the surviving institutions of apartheid. Partial contents: Is South Africa a revolutionary society? Is the system becoming better or worse? The basic scope for conciliation in South Africa.
In: SAIS review / the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS): a journal of international affairs, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 107-124
ISSN: 1946-4444
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In: SAIS review / School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 107
ISSN: 0036-0775
In: Optima, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 205-210
Anläßlich der Ergebnisse der Wahl in Südafrika im Oktober 1988, an der erstmalig sämtliche Bevölkerungsgruppen teilnehmen konnten, wird das Wählerverhalten analysiert. (HWWA)
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In: Strategic review: Strategiese oorsig, S. 1-7
ISSN: 0250-1961
Aus südafrikanischer Sicht
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In: Journal of Asian and African studies: JAAS, Band 18, Heft 1-2, S. 60
ISSN: 0021-9096
In: African and Asian Studies, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 60-82
ISSN: 1569-2108
In: Social dynamics: SD ; a journal of the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 3-16
ISSN: 1940-7874
In: Social dynamics: SD ; a journal of the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 3-18
ISSN: 1940-7874