Frueh Political Identity and Social Change

The Remaking of the South African Social Order
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8775-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Global Politics

Explores issues of political identity and the social changes that ended apartheid in South Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frueh, Jamie

Weitere Mitwirkende

Onuf, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Nicholas Onuf
1. INTRODUCTION
2. A THEORY OF POLITICAL IDENTITY
Constructivism
Identity
Identity Labels as Units of a Constructivist Method
Conclusion
3. SOUTH AFRICA AND IDENTITY
Apartheid and Its Historical Context
Analysis of South African Politics
The Practicalities of Studying South African Identity
4. SOWETO 1976
Soweto, June 16, 1976—A Story
Competing Discourses on Soweto
The Political Identity of Soweto
Conclusion: The Beginning of the End 5. CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM, 1983–1984
Reform, Resistance, Repression
Competing Discourses on the Constitution
Constitutional Reform and Political Identity
Conclusion
6. POST-APARTHEID CRIME
Crime in South Africa
The Discourse on Crime
Crime and Political Identity
Conclusion
7. IDENTITY AND THE TRANSITION: Conclusions for the Political Theory of Social Change
The Argument for Constructivist Political Identity
The Argument about South Africa
Conclusions and Generalizations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jamie Frueh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bridgewater College.