P Eric Louw
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Eric Louw |
| GIVEN NAMES | P Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Louw |
| SIGNATURE | LOUW P E |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Contemporary Cultural Studies Unit, , University of Natal , Durban , South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Colonialism: Taking the Good with the Bad
Two recent books take very different positions on decolonization: one “wallows” in today’s academically fashionable “restorative justice” ideology. The other seeks to restore decolonization’s traditional meaning and facilitate self-government for formerly colonized people
Soft power, being attractive to others, and nation branding in an epoch where the Pax Americana sets the pace
Additional informationNotes on contributorsP. Eric Louw P. Eric Louw is affiliated to the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland. He is research fellow, Department of Communication Science, University of South Africa
Afropessimism: A genealogy of discourse
Afropessimism is an important issue for all Africans as well as for anyone interested in African development and socio-cultural analysis. Although there are bits and pieces and research works on Afropessimism, none has as yet brought it all together in a coherent way. When we decided to undertake this examination of Afropessimism, there is more than one perspective on this phenomenon. In fact, there seem to be at ‘Western construct’. In contradis…
The media and political process
Anglicising Postapartheid South Africa
The apartheid state deliberately encouraged linguistic diversity and actively built cultural infrastructures which impeded Anglicisation. With the end of apartheid has come de facto Anglicisation. So although South Africa has, since 1994, had 11 official languages, in reality, English is swamping the other 10 languages. Afrikaans has, in particular, come under tremendous pressure. Whereas before 1994 Afrikaans was one of two official languages, a…
Political power, national identity, and language: The case of Afrikaans
Afrikaans is the home language of 5.9 million people. During the 1980s, Afrikaans was the dominant state language and a widely-used lingua franca in South Africa and Namibia. But by the end of the twentieth century, English had replaced Afrikaans as the dominant state language and a decline in the use of Afrikaans was in evidence, even among native Afrikaans speakers. An examination of this language's twentieth-century journey helps illustrate th…
The `War Against Terrorism: A Public Relations Challenge for the Pentagon
This article examines the relationship between warfare and the media, arguing that both terrorists and conventional warfare planners in the Pentagon factor communications and public relations into their planning. In this regard, the article sketches out how the Pentagon developed a new genre of `public relations-ized' warfare - warfare planned, not only as a military exercise, but as a televisual media event. Similarly, it will be argued that tho…
South Africa's Second Post-Apartheid Elections: A Reaffirmation of Racial Politics but a Loosening of Ethnic Bonds
It seems likely that the 1999 elections have set the parameters of South African politics for some decades to come unless the South African 'tradition' of ethnic voting and 'one-party dominance' can be broken. What seems likely is that South Africa will now assume the characteristics of a one-party dominant system where only one political party actually has any chance of governing, but where small opposition parties (representing 'niche' social f…
Rethinking cultural studies to meet the challenge of the "information age" in South Africa
Shifting patterns of political discourse in the new South Africa
Since February, 1990, a remarkable series of shifts have occurred in the discourses used by the central political players in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) and the National Party (NP). This article examines the two key political discourses of the 1980s, namely the NP's apartheid and the UDF's (ANC internal‐wing) non‐racialism. Then the shifts that have occurred since 1990 are traced. It will be argued that by the end of 1992 th…
Language and media policy: Exploring the options
FW de Klerk's 1990 announcement of reform has initiated a significant process of policy formulation and debate in SA. In both language and media fields, proposals for policy have been made. Considering the close inter-relationship between language and the media, it is somewhat strange that both the language policy and media policy debates have, up to now, developed almost autonomously. Given that the outcome of the language policy debate will hav…
Obstacles to digging out the dirt: Frustrations in researching broadcast policy in the new South Africa
Rethinking the Leftist Struggle in South Africa
(1992). Rethinking the Leftist Struggle in South Africa. Critical Arts: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-25
Langauge and National Unity in a Post-Apartheid South Africa
(1992). Langauge and National Unity in a Post-Apartheid South Africa. Critical Arts: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 52-60
Soviet media in the age of glasnost
State-Subsidised Theatre Following the September 1984 Vaal Uprising
The libertarian theory of the press: How appropriate in the South African context
1984). The libertarian theory of the press: How appropriate in the South African context? Communicatio: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 31-37
Habermas: A new theory of praxis through communicative action
1983). HABERMAS: A new theory of praxis through communicative action? Communicatio: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 9-14
The `War Against Terrorism: A Public Relations Challenge for the Pentagon
This article examines the relationship between warfare and the media, arguing that both terrorists and conventional warfare planners in the Pentagon factor communications and public relations into their planning. In this regard, the article sketches out how the Pentagon developed a new genre of `public relations-ized' warfare - warfare planned, not only as a military exercise, but as a televisual media event. Similarly, it will be argued that tho…
The media and political process
Anglicising Postapartheid South Africa
The apartheid state deliberately encouraged linguistic diversity and actively built cultural infrastructures which impeded Anglicisation. With the end of apartheid has come de facto Anglicisation. So although South Africa has, since 1994, had 11 official languages, in reality, English is swamping the other 10 languages. Afrikaans has, in particular, come under tremendous pressure. Whereas before 1994 Afrikaans was one of two official languages, a…
South Africa's Second Post-Apartheid Elections: A Reaffirmation of Racial Politics but a Loosening of Ethnic Bonds
It seems likely that the 1999 elections have set the parameters of South African politics for some decades to come unless the South African 'tradition' of ethnic voting and 'one-party dominance' can be broken. What seems likely is that South Africa will now assume the characteristics of a one-party dominant system where only one political party actually has any chance of governing, but where small opposition parties (representing 'niche' social f…
Afropessimism: A genealogy of discourse
Afropessimism is an important issue for all Africans as well as for anyone interested in African development and socio-cultural analysis. Although there are bits and pieces and research works on Afropessimism, none has as yet brought it all together in a coherent way. When we decided to undertake this examination of Afropessimism, there is more than one perspective on this phenomenon. In fact, there seem to be at ‘Western construct’. In contradis…
Political power, national identity, and language: The case of Afrikaans
Afrikaans is the home language of 5.9 million people. During the 1980s, Afrikaans was the dominant state language and a widely-used lingua franca in South Africa and Namibia. But by the end of the twentieth century, English had replaced Afrikaans as the dominant state language and a decline in the use of Afrikaans was in evidence, even among native Afrikaans speakers. An examination of this language's twentieth-century journey helps illustrate th…
The libertarian theory of the press: How appropriate in the South African context
1984). The libertarian theory of the press: How appropriate in the South African context? Communicatio: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 31-37
Habermas: A new theory of praxis through communicative action
1983). HABERMAS: A new theory of praxis through communicative action? Communicatio: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 9-14
The libertarian theory of the press: How appropriate in the South African context
1984). The libertarian theory of the press: How appropriate in the South African context? Communicatio: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 31-37
State-Subsidised Theatre Following the September 1984 Vaal Uprising
Soviet media in the age of glasnost
Rethinking the Leftist Struggle in South Africa
(1992). Rethinking the Leftist Struggle in South Africa. Critical Arts: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-25
Langauge and National Unity in a Post-Apartheid South Africa
(1992). Langauge and National Unity in a Post-Apartheid South Africa. Critical Arts: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 52-60
Language and media policy: Exploring the options
FW de Klerk's 1990 announcement of reform has initiated a significant process of policy formulation and debate in SA. In both language and media fields, proposals for policy have been made. Considering the close inter-relationship between language and the media, it is somewhat strange that both the language policy and media policy debates have, up to now, developed almost autonomously. Given that the outcome of the language policy debate will hav…
Obstacles to digging out the dirt: Frustrations in researching broadcast policy in the new South Africa
Shifting patterns of political discourse in the new South Africa
Since February, 1990, a remarkable series of shifts have occurred in the discourses used by the central political players in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) and the National Party (NP). This article examines the two key political discourses of the 1980s, namely the NP's apartheid and the UDF's (ANC internal‐wing) non‐racialism. Then the shifts that have occurred since 1990 are traced. It will be argued that by the end of 1992 th…
Rethinking cultural studies to meet the challenge of the "information age" in South Africa
South Africa's Second Post-Apartheid Elections: A Reaffirmation of Racial Politics but a Loosening of Ethnic Bonds
It seems likely that the 1999 elections have set the parameters of South African politics for some decades to come unless the South African 'tradition' of ethnic voting and 'one-party dominance' can be broken. What seems likely is that South Africa will now assume the characteristics of a one-party dominant system where only one political party actually has any chance of governing, but where small opposition parties (representing 'niche' social f…
The `War Against Terrorism: A Public Relations Challenge for the Pentagon
This article examines the relationship between warfare and the media, arguing that both terrorists and conventional warfare planners in the Pentagon factor communications and public relations into their planning. In this regard, the article sketches out how the Pentagon developed a new genre of `public relations-ized' warfare - warfare planned, not only as a military exercise, but as a televisual media event. Similarly, it will be argued that tho…
Anglicising Postapartheid South Africa
The apartheid state deliberately encouraged linguistic diversity and actively built cultural infrastructures which impeded Anglicisation. With the end of apartheid has come de facto Anglicisation. So although South Africa has, since 1994, had 11 official languages, in reality, English is swamping the other 10 languages. Afrikaans has, in particular, come under tremendous pressure. Whereas before 1994 Afrikaans was one of two official languages, a…
Political power, national identity, and language: The case of Afrikaans
Afrikaans is the home language of 5.9 million people. During the 1980s, Afrikaans was the dominant state language and a widely-used lingua franca in South Africa and Namibia. But by the end of the twentieth century, English had replaced Afrikaans as the dominant state language and a decline in the use of Afrikaans was in evidence, even among native Afrikaans speakers. An examination of this language's twentieth-century journey helps illustrate th…
The media and political process
Afropessimism: A genealogy of discourse
Afropessimism is an important issue for all Africans as well as for anyone interested in African development and socio-cultural analysis. Although there are bits and pieces and research works on Afropessimism, none has as yet brought it all together in a coherent way. When we decided to undertake this examination of Afropessimism, there is more than one perspective on this phenomenon. In fact, there seem to be at ‘Western construct’. In contradis…
Soft power, being attractive to others, and nation branding in an epoch where the Pax Americana sets the pace
Additional informationNotes on contributorsP. Eric Louw P. Eric Louw is affiliated to the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland. He is research fellow, Department of Communication Science, University of South Africa
Colonialism: Taking the Good with the Bad
Two recent books take very different positions on decolonization: one “wallows” in today’s academically fashionable “restorative justice” ideology. The other seeks to restore decolonization’s traditional meaning and facilitate self-government for formerly colonized people
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