South African Homelands As Frontiers - Apartheid''s Loose Ends in the Postcolonial Era

Informationen zum Autor Steffen Jensen is a Professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies! Aalborg University! Denmark! and a Senior Researcher at DIGNITY: The Danish Institute Against Torture. He has published on issues of gangs! policing! justice! human rights! development and victimhood in South Africa and the Philippines. He has recently published Histories of Victimhood (2014) and Human Rights and State Violence: State officials in the South (2009).Olaf Zenker is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg! Switzerland. He has published on modern statehood! rule of law! bureaucracy! justice! land reform as well as conflict and identity formations in South Africa and Northern Ireland. He recently published Transition and Justice: Negotiating the Terms of New Beginnings in Africa (2015) and Irish/ness Is All Around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland (2013). Zusammenfassung This book explores what happened to the South African homelands after the fall of apartheid. It argues that the homelands continue to persist as unresolved matter and that it is in relation to them that the crucial battle for true liberation at apartheid’s end is fought. This account is central for understanding post-apartheid South Africa and postcolonial Africa in general. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. South African Homelands as Frontiers: Apartheid's Loose Ends in the Postcolonial Era- An Introduction 2. Fragments of the Past: Homeland Politics and the South African Transition! 1990-2014 3. Material Remains: Artifice versus Artefact(s) in the Archive of Bantustan Rule 4. This House Is Not My Own ?! Temporalities in a South African Homeland 5. Custom! Normativity and Authority in South Africa 6. South African Land Restitution! White Claimants and the Fateful Frontier of Former KwaNdebele 7. 'Women Use their Strength in the House': Savings Clubs in an Mpumalanga Village 8. Moralising Magic? A Brief History of Football Potions in a South African Homeland Area! 1958-2010 9. City Slums! Rural Homesteads: Migrant Culture! Displaced Urbanism and the Citizenship of the Serviced House 10. 'Keeping Land for Their Children': Generation! Migration and Land in South Africa's Transkei 11. Epilogue ...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Steffen (Aalborg University Jensen, Steffen Zenker Jensen
• Collaboration: Steffen Jensen (Editeur), Steffen (Aalborg University Jensen (Editeur), Jensen Steffen (Editeur), Olaf Zenker (Editeur), Olaf (Freie Universitat Berlin Zenker (Editeur), Zenker Olaf (Editeur)
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 09.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138667853
• ISBN: 978-1-138-66785-3
• Pages: 184
• Thème: Southern African Studies
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Republic of South Africa, Politics & government, Politics and government, Human Geography, Urban communities, Development Studies, Settlement, urban and rural geography, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Development and environmental geography