A New Generation of Gustav Prellers? TheFragmente/FAK/Vrye AfrikaanMovement, 1998-2008

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2137703
AutoresMariana Kriel (University of the Free State, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen71
Número3
Páginas426-445
Fecha de publicación2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAfrican Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-0184 • E-ISSN: 1469-2872
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00020184.2012.740885
OpenAlexW2085568401
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas18

Defining nationalism as an ideology which holds that the nation should be collectively and freely articulated – both symbolically and institutionally – this article claims (contra Hermann Giliomee and others) that Afrikaner nationalism has outlived apartheid, at least as an elite movement. During the first decade of the 21st century this movement has become consolidated around a few organisations which define their mission, depending on the circumstances, as the defence of multilingualism and minority rights, the defence of Afrikaans, or, unashamedly, the defence of Afrikaner rights and interests. The leaders of the movement, and then specifically the philosophers Danie Goosen and Johann Rossouw, have been identified as a ‘new generation of Gustav Prellers’ (Van Niekerk 2008:84). However, following Breuilly (1993:64), I argue that effective nationalist mobilisation requires (a) for philosophy to be translated into appropriate ideology (which Goosen and Rossouw have managed to do); and (b) for ideology to be simplified and concretised (which they, unlike the Prellers of yore, have failed to do). In putting forward this argument, I revisit the debate about the role of ideology versus that of other factors in the formation and politicisation of an Afrikaner national identity in the first half of the 20th century

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