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We Are Not South African : Mediating National Identity in a Postcolonial and Postapartheid State.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- van der Merwe, Rachel Lara.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- We Are Not South African explores how national identity functions as a colonial tool of communication, control, and power.Author Rachel Lara van der Merwe examines how humans and the planet are integrally shaped by the idea of the nation, and speculates on how different sociopolitical imaginaries, instead of the nation, could inform ways of.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Contents
- About the Cover Art
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Imagining the Social, Imagining the Nation
- 3. Unsettling, Delinking, and Staying with the Trouble
- 4. Struggling over the Idea of South Africa
- 5. National Identity from Afar
- 6. Emigration as Extraction
- 7. Remediating Water: From Medium of Life to National Resource
- 8. Colonial Water in the Cape
- 9. Protocols of Planetary Translation
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author and Artist.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-4300-3
- 9781978843004
- OCLC:
- 1578119785
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