Christi Van Der Westhuizen
Biographic Data
| ID | 195530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christi Van Der Westhuizen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christi |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Westhuizen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER WESTHUIZEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0982-1537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The D-Word: Perspectives on Democracy in Tumultuous Times
This curated collection engages international debates about the current challenges facing democracy. Given the proliferation of “crisis” literature on democracy, this volume finds its distinctive niche in presenting perspectives from the global margins that bridge disciplinary, sectoral, national and conceptual divides. South Africans enter into conversation with scholars and activists from elsewhere in the Global South, including the Arab world …
Everyday Interpretations of African Independence: A Discussion
Democratic Constitutionalism Against the Paradoxes of Neoliberal, Populist, and Post-Socialist Entanglements
As South Africa’s governing party between 1994 and 2024, the African National Congress (ANC) was in poll position to use the powers of state to effect the imaginary of the 1996 Constitution. This imaginary provides for the overturning of colonial and apartheid legacies to actualise the human potential of those previously excluded on the basis of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Due to a failure of political imagination, merely the top echelons…
Populism as African Fascism? Examining the Economic Freedom Fighters in Postapartheid South Africa
The twenty-first-century global resurgence in populism has raised academic contention over whether populism undermines or deepens democracy. This question is particularly relevant in postcolonial contexts such as South Africa. Populism can be of both the left and right. Fascism, one permutation of it, has been confined by leftist academics to right-radical nationalism. Contemporary South African populism in the form of the Economic Freedom Fighte…
Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness
I am berated as a Communist because I sometimes wear a red tie”: Not Forgetting the Awkward Afrikaner, Dr Petronella “Nell” van Heerden
This article explores the shifts in (in)visibility of one of the few “leftist” female Afrikaner public intellectuals in twentieth-century South Africa. The Afrikaner nationalist embrace of Dr. Petronella “Nell” van Heerden (1887–1975), the country’s first woman gynecologist, soon turned into marginalization, showing the limits of colonial white dissidence
(Un)sung Heroines: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Afrikaner Nationalist Volksmoeder in South Africa
In the South African War (1899–1902), Boer women emerged as more heroic than their men folk. When Boer leaders succumbed to a truce, much discursive work ensued to domesticate Boer women anew in the face of their recalcitrance in accepting a peace deal with the British. But attempts to re-feminise Boer women and elevate Boer men to their ‘rightful’ position as patriarchs faltered in the topsy-turvy after the war. The figure of the volksmoeder, or…
Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and Me (Marianne Thamm)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
"Race, Intersectionality, and Affect in Postapartheid Productions of the "Afrikaans White Woman
In South Africa, race has been subverted by the fall of official apartheid. Specifically, the "invisibilization" of black others is overturned and white-black relationality problematized, thereby deeply troubling whiteness. However, the logic of race continues to reverberate through social relations against a global backdrop in which this category proves remarkably adaptable as purveyor of inequality. The end of official apartheid is not the end …
Introduction: The Paradox of Post-Apartheid 'Afrikaner' Identity: Deployments of Ethnicity and Neo-Liberalism
For much of the 20th century, white Afrikaans-speakers ruled South Africa and, as mobilised ethno-nationalist ‘Afrikaners’, were instrumental in the creation and maintenance of the system of racial
Introduction: The Paradox of Post-Apartheid 'Afrikaner' Identity: Deployments of Ethnicity and Neo-Liberalism
For much of the 20th century, white Afrikaans-speakers ruled South Africa and, as mobilised ethno-nationalist ‘Afrikaners’, were instrumental in the creation and maintenance of the system of racial
"Race, Intersectionality, and Affect in Postapartheid Productions of the "Afrikaans White Woman
In South Africa, race has been subverted by the fall of official apartheid. Specifically, the "invisibilization" of black others is overturned and white-black relationality problematized, thereby deeply troubling whiteness. However, the logic of race continues to reverberate through social relations against a global backdrop in which this category proves remarkably adaptable as purveyor of inequality. The end of official apartheid is not the end …
Introduction: The Paradox of Post-Apartheid 'Afrikaner' Identity: Deployments of Ethnicity and Neo-Liberalism
For much of the 20th century, white Afrikaans-speakers ruled South Africa and, as mobilised ethno-nationalist ‘Afrikaners’, were instrumental in the creation and maintenance of the system of racial
"Race, Intersectionality, and Affect in Postapartheid Productions of the "Afrikaans White Woman
In South Africa, race has been subverted by the fall of official apartheid. Specifically, the "invisibilization" of black others is overturned and white-black relationality problematized, thereby deeply troubling whiteness. However, the logic of race continues to reverberate through social relations against a global backdrop in which this category proves remarkably adaptable as purveyor of inequality. The end of official apartheid is not the end …
Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and Me (Marianne Thamm)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
I am berated as a Communist because I sometimes wear a red tie”: Not Forgetting the Awkward Afrikaner, Dr Petronella “Nell” van Heerden
This article explores the shifts in (in)visibility of one of the few “leftist” female Afrikaner public intellectuals in twentieth-century South Africa. The Afrikaner nationalist embrace of Dr. Petronella “Nell” van Heerden (1887–1975), the country’s first woman gynecologist, soon turned into marginalization, showing the limits of colonial white dissidence
(Un)sung Heroines: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Afrikaner Nationalist Volksmoeder in South Africa
In the South African War (1899–1902), Boer women emerged as more heroic than their men folk. When Boer leaders succumbed to a truce, much discursive work ensued to domesticate Boer women anew in the face of their recalcitrance in accepting a peace deal with the British. But attempts to re-feminise Boer women and elevate Boer men to their ‘rightful’ position as patriarchs faltered in the topsy-turvy after the war. The figure of the volksmoeder, or…
Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness
Populism as African Fascism? Examining the Economic Freedom Fighters in Postapartheid South Africa
The twenty-first-century global resurgence in populism has raised academic contention over whether populism undermines or deepens democracy. This question is particularly relevant in postcolonial contexts such as South Africa. Populism can be of both the left and right. Fascism, one permutation of it, has been confined by leftist academics to right-radical nationalism. Contemporary South African populism in the form of the Economic Freedom Fighte…
The D-Word: Perspectives on Democracy in Tumultuous Times
This curated collection engages international debates about the current challenges facing democracy. Given the proliferation of “crisis” literature on democracy, this volume finds its distinctive niche in presenting perspectives from the global margins that bridge disciplinary, sectoral, national and conceptual divides. South Africans enter into conversation with scholars and activists from elsewhere in the Global South, including the Arab world …
Everyday Interpretations of African Independence: A Discussion
Democratic Constitutionalism Against the Paradoxes of Neoliberal, Populist, and Post-Socialist Entanglements
As South Africa’s governing party between 1994 and 2024, the African National Congress (ANC) was in poll position to use the powers of state to effect the imaginary of the 1996 Constitution. This imaginary provides for the overturning of colonial and apartheid legacies to actualise the human potential of those previously excluded on the basis of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Due to a failure of political imagination, merely the top echelons…
Sociology (8 works) · South African History and Culture (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works)