Resistance to and Acquiescence in Apartheid

Resistance to and Acquiescence in Apartheid
Author: Henry Mbaya
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2018-09-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1928357830

This book documents the history of a major Provincial Anglican theological college in Grahamstown - St. Paul's Theological College - that existed against the backdrop of colonialism and apartheid. The author fundamentally attempts to explore a narrative of certain socio-economic, cultural and political struggles. He contextualises the mission of the Church in theological education during a period of deeply rooted inequality. Thus, one is left to ask the question: What missionary role did St. Paul's College play in the context of apartheid?

Acquiescence and Resistance in the Fiction of Nadine Gordimer

Acquiescence and Resistance in the Fiction of Nadine Gordimer
Author: Noor Hussain
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

The book examines the theme of acquiescence and resistance in Nadine Gordimer's fiction of the apartheid era in South Africa. The Afrikaner National Party came to power in South Africa in 1948. Since then successive white minority governments of South Africa had enacted and implemented apartheid laws to dominate and rule the majority black population. Many white liberals fought against the apartheid regime. Nadine Gordimer is one such white author and activist who has been a bitter critic of apartheid throughout her life. As an artist who is deeply committed to society, she has created a body of fiction that displays a culture of resistance to the dehumanizing apartheid laws. Gordimer has not only highlighted the issue of apartheid but she has expressed her voice of dissent through her work -both fictional and non-fictional. This study argues that Gordimer has provided through her work an alternative discourse to resist apartheid.

Rural Resistance in South Africa

Rural Resistance in South Africa
Author: Thembela Kepe
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2011-10-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004214461

Drawing on scholarship from multiple disciplines, this volume presents a fresh understanding of the Mpondo uprising in South Africa; focusing on its meanings and significance in relation to land, rural governance, politics and the agency of the marginalized.

Encyclopedia of Critical Whiteness Studies in Education

Encyclopedia of Critical Whiteness Studies in Education
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2020-12-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004444831

The Encyclopedia of Critical Whiteness Studies in Education offers readers a broad summary of the multifaceted and interdisciplinary field of critical whiteness studies, the study of white racial identities in the context of white supremacy, in education.

Decolonization and White Africans

Decolonization and White Africans
Author: P. Eric Louw
Publisher:
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781680532883

Decolonization and White Africans examines how African decolonization affected white Africans in eight countries - Algeria, Kenya, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Angola, Mozambique, South West Africa (Namibia), and South Africa - and discusses their varied responses to decolonization, including resistance, acquiescence, negotiations, and migration. It also examines the range of mechanisms used by the global community to compel white Africans into submitting to decolonization through such means as official pressure, diplomatic negotiations, global activism, sanctions, and warfare. Until now, books about African decolonization usually approached the topic either from the perspective of the colonial powers or from an anti-colonial black African perspective. As a result, white African perspectives have been marginalized, downplayed, or presented reductively. Decolonization and White Africans adds white African perspectives to the story, thereby broadening our understanding of the decolonization phenomenon.

Refusal, Transition and Post-apartheid Law

Refusal, Transition and Post-apartheid Law
Author: Karin Van Marle
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2009-11-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 192033808X

Refusal, Transition and Post-apartheid Law under editorship of professor Karin van Marle is indeed long overdue. As some of the authors in the relevant contributions to this publication rightly point out, Van Marle?s call for a ?jurisprudence of generosity?, enabled through an ?ethics of refusal?, signals a new shift in South African jurisprudence. Through the lens of Van Marle?s ethics of refusal and her jurisprudence of generosity, the articles present fresh and meaningful interpretations in respect of a range of very relevant topics ranging from property theory and a rethinking of human rights, to the role of forgiveness and the dangers inherent in modern technology.

Interconnectivity, Subversion, and Healing in World Christianity

Interconnectivity, Subversion, and Healing in World Christianity
Author: Afe Adogame
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2023-07-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1350333417

The rise of Christianity around the world has been the impetus for much religious and social change. The interconnectivity of religious centers has resulted in theological dialogue and innovation. The subversion of long-held categories of culture, gender, race, spirituality, theology, and politics has naturally occurred along with the transgressing of borders and boundaries. Yet at the same time, there has been occasion for healing through intercultural experiences of forgiveness, peacemaking, and reconciliation. Stimulated by the work and mentorship of Joel Carpenter, who has done much to expand the study of world Christianity less through focusing on his own research and writing, and more through amplifying the voices of others, the international contributors to this volume from all six continents promote a deeper understanding of World Christianity through the exploration of such related themes. Whether discussing primal spirituality in northeast India, white supremacy in South Africa, evangelical women and civic engagement in Kenya, or Calvinism in Mexico, the contributors draw upon ethnographic case studies to more deeply understand interconnectivity, subversion, and healing in World Christianity. Their essays provoke a reorientation of Christian thought within the study of World Christianity, enriching the current discourse and promoting vistas for further interdisciplinary studies.

South Africa

South Africa
Author: Nancy L. Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2016-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317220323

South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid examines the history of South Africa from 1948 to the present day, covering the introduction of the oppressive policy of apartheid when the Nationalists came to power, its mounting opposition in the 1970s and 1980s, its eventual collapse in the 1990s, and its legacy up to the present day. Fully revised, the third edition includes: new material on the impact of apartheid, including the social and cultural effects of the urbanization that occurred when Africans were forced out of rural areas analysis of recent political and economic issues that are rooted in the apartheid regime, particularly continuing unemployment and the emergence of opposition political parties such as the Economic Freedom Fighters an updated Further Reading section, reflecting the greatly increased availability of online materials an expanded set of primary source documents, providing insight into the minds of those who enforced apartheid and those who fought it. Illustrated with photographs, maps and figures and including a chronology of events, glossary and Who’s Who of key figures, this essential text provides students with a current, clear, and succinct introduction to the ideology and practice of apartheid in South Africa.

The Law and the Prophets

The Law and the Prophets
Author: Daniel R. Magaziner
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2010-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0821419188

The 1970s are a decade virtually lost to South African historiography. This span of years bridged the banning and exile of the country’s best-known antiapartheid leaders in the early 1960s and the furious protests that erupted after the Soweto uprisings of June 16, 1976. The Law and the Prophets is an intellectual history of the resistance movement between 1968 and 1977; it follows the formation, early trials, and ultimate dissolution of the Black Consciousness movement. Magaziner argues that only by understanding how ideas about race, faith, and selfhood developed and were transformed in this period might we begin to understand the dramatic changes that took place.