Hegemony and resistance : contesting identities in South Africa / Thiven Reddy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reddy, Thiven.

Series:

Race and representation (Aldershot, England)

Race and representation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Africa--Race relations.

South Africa.

Race relations.

South Africa--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

vii, 256 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington USA : Ashgate, [2000]

Contents:

1 The Construction of Subaltern Subjects in South Africa: 1652-1910 10

European Conceptions of the "Savage" Other 12

Slavery, the Slave Mode of Production and the Construction of a Symbolic System Premised on Color Division 24

The "Frontier Tradition", and the Making of South African History 31

The Missionary as Messenger, Representative and Mediator 47

2 Inventing a Tradition of Otherness - the Contribution of Segregation Discourse to the Development of Apartheid: 1910-1948 53

The "Cheap Labor-Power Thesis" Revisited 56

Segregation and Construction of "Non-European Otherness" 64

Early Segregation Theorists 67

The South African Native Affairs Commission and "Official Discourse" 79

Inventing Traditions 96

3 The Subject has a Material Basis: Apartheid and Otherness 106

Before Apartheid: The Post-War Context 109

On Historical Investigation: Some Observations on "Apartheid History" and Discourse Analysis 109

The White Parties, Hegemonic Discourse and its "Threats" 116

The Afrikaner Nationalists take the Initiative 122

Apartheid 130

Apartheid's Premise: The Population Register and the Classification of Subjects 130

Criteria for "Race" Determination and its Effects 139

The Rationalization of Space: Apartheid, the Organization of Space and "the Other" 142

The Pass Laws 147

Apartheid, the Subaltern Subject and Labour Power 149

A Critique of Davies' Explanation for the Racial Division of Labor 154

The Strategy of Enclosure, the Compound, the Township and the Bantustan 157

4 Counter-Discourses to White Hegemony in South Africa 169

The Resurgence of Resistance in the Period of Reform 171

The History of Military Force that Everyone Claims and the "Tradition" of Resistance 176

Counter-Discourses to White Hegemony 182

The Discourse of Rights and Equality 184

Colonial Conquest and Psychological Liberationist Discourses 192

Class-Based Discourses 197

Black Consciousness 204

5 Some Concluding Remarks on Hegemony and Resistance 221

A Note on Gramsci, Foucault and Resistance 222

Hegemony and Resistance: Defending "Hegemony" against Scott 229

Rethinking Hegemony: Moving beyond Scott and Foucault 232.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0754612058

OCLC:

43378039