Concepts Of Nation And Nation Building With Special Reference To South Africa
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Democratic Nation-building in South Africa
Author | : N. J. Rhoodie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
This book is a collection of essays by 50 eminent experts/analysts representing a broad range of ideological perspectives and interest groups. Its aim is to contribute to the process of democratic nation-building and the creation of a culture of tolerance by educating South Africans about the intricacies of community reconciliation and nation-building. Following a section featuring information about each of the contributing authors, the book is divided into 11 sections, which are further divided into 47 chapters. The main sections are: (1) "Nation-Building as a Democratic Means of Reconciling National Unity with Ethnic and Cultural Diversity"; (2) "The Role of Ethnic Nationalism in Nation-Building"; (3) "The Constitutional and Institutional Bases of Democratic Government in South Africa"; (4) "The Sociopolitical Conditions for Democratic Nation-Building and Intercommunity Reconciliation"; (5) "Key Socioeconomic Determinants of Democratic Nation-Building in South Africa"; (6) "The Transition from Apartheid to Democracy"; (7) "Gender Equality as a Precondition for Democratic Nation-Building"; (8) "Violence--A Pervasive Inhibitor of Nation-Building"; (9) "The Role of the Security Institutions"; (10) "International Involvement in Nation-Building"; and (11) "Concluding Overview: the Prospects for Democratic Nation-Building in South Africa." (LAP)
National Identity and Democracy in Africa
Author | : Mai Palmberg |
Publisher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789171064417 |
Province of South Africa
Nationalism and National Projects in Southern Africa
Author | : Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. |
Publisher | : Africa Institute of South Africa |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0798303956 |
Despite the fact that nationalism and its national projects have in recent years been severely criticised by postcolonial theorists for being fundamentalist and essentialist; by feminists for being patriarchal and exclusive; by global financial institutions for being antagonistic to development and globalisation; by Pan-Africanists for being anticontinental unity; and by those Africans born after decolonisation for being irrelevant; Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Finex Ndhlovu's book convincingly argues that nationalism has defied its death and displayed remarkable resilience and resonance. Since the end of the Cold War, what has been poignant has been the enduring contest, tensions and contradictions between the growth of various forms of transnationalism on the one hand and a resurgence of territorial as well as other narrow and xenophobic forms of nationalism on the other. In this important book, Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Ndhlovu provide new critical reflections on nationalism and its national projects in southern Africa covering South Africa, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, a member of SADC). The national question is interrogated from different disciplinary vantage points to reveal how it impinges on contemporary challenges of nation-building, development, devolution of power, language questions, and citizenship on the one hand and ethnicity, nativism and xenophobia on the other.
State and Nation Building
Author | : Centre for the Study of Developing Societies |
Publisher | : Bombay : Allied Publishers |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Comparative government |
ISBN | : |
Nation-building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States
Author | : René Grotenhuis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : POLITICAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 9789462982192 |
René Grotenhuis analyses policies intended to bring stability to fragile states and shows how they ignore the question of what gives people a sense of belonging to a nation-state.
Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Author | : Jon Orman |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2008-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1402088914 |
The preamble to the post-apartheid South African constitution states that ‘South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity’ and promises to ‘lay the foundations for a democratic and open society in which government is based on the will of the people and every citizen is equally protected by law’ and to ‘improve the quality of life of all citizens’. This would seem to commit the South African government to, amongst other things, the implementation of policies aimed at fostering a common sense of South African national identity, at societal dev- opment and at reducing of levels of social inequality. However, in the period of more than a decade that has now elapsed since the end of apartheid, there has been widespread discontent with regard to the degree of progress made in connection with the realisation of these constitutional aspirations. The ‘limits to liberation’ in the post-apartheid era has been a theme of much recent research in the ?elds of sociology and political theory (e. g. Luckham, 1998; Robins, 2005a). Linguists have also paid considerable attention to the South African situation with the realisation that many of the factors that have prevented, and are continuing to prevent, effective progress towards the achievement of these constitutional goals are linguistic in their origin.
Nation-building
Author | : Karl Wolfgang Deutsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Nationalism |
ISBN | : |