Heribert Adam
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heribert Adam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heribert |
| FAMILY NAME | Adam |
| SIGNATURE | ADAM H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 86 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 86 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
My Friendship With John Stone
Legitimacy and the Institutionalization of Ethnicity: Comparing South Africa
South Africa provides the clearest case in the contemporary world of a "state apparatus" that works to maintain "ethnic privilege." Adam describes the South African state as an authoritarian regime controlled by an "ethnic oligarchy," that perceives itself as threatened. However, Adam argues that the South African state has lost its legitimacy and that, therefore, it is necessary both for outside observers and the ruling oligarchy itself to consi…
Corruption, race relations and the future of South Africa
With the new president Cyril Ramaphosa, one clearly can be more hopeful for the country than with his utterly corrupt predecessor. Jacob Zuma has proved to be shameless and beyond embarrassment by
S outh A frica
Social scientists explain nonviolent regime change mostly through economistic and interest‐based arguments. Clinton's quip “it is the economy, stupid” has become the universal mantra. While obviously not to be ignored, such a one‐sided perspective neglects moral dimensions. Delegitimating unjust rule also triggers political change, because authoritarian rulers must be able to justify their actions to themselves and their constituency. This analys…
Xenophobia, Asylum Seekers, and Immigration Policies in Germany
In the context of Germany's anti-Semitic past, current attitudes towards refugees and immigrants are surveyed and compared with other countries. Higher levels of xenophobia in former East Germany, despite far fewer foreigners than in West Germany, is explained with the official denial of the fascist legacy, in contrast to an effective reeducation policy and dealing with the Nazi past in the West. Islamophobia and allegations of welfare tourism ha…
Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada
Imagined Liberation - Xenophobia, Citizenship and Identity in South Africa, Germany and Canada
Shifting boundaries and flexible identities within a multicultural Canada
This analysis probes the evolution of Canadian multiculturalism within the national political constellation which in turn is influenced by global geopolitical trends. Rather than narrowly focusing on how and what is being taught under the rubric multiculturalism, falsely taking curricula or vacuous educational manifestos at face value, we describe the political background of Canadian multiculturalism. We contrast the pronouncements of the Canadia…
Neither a Two-State nor a One-State Solution
An Historian of Afrikaner Origin, but not an Afrikaner Historian: Hermann Giliomee at 70
(2008). 'An Historian of Afrikaner Origin, but not an Afrikaner Historian': Hermann Giliomee at 70. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 535-552
Political travel through the holy land
Visions of the Future during Political Transitions
Research Article| June 01 2003 Visions of the Future during Political Transitions: COMPARING AFRIKANER AND ISRAELI ATTITUDES Heribert Adam Heribert Adam Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 95–110. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-2_75-95 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Heribert Adam; Visions of the Future during Political Transitions: COMPARING AFRI…
Les politiques de l'identité. Nationalisme, patriotisme et multiculturalisme
Les politiques de l'identité Nationalisme, patriotisme et multiculturalisme Le nationalisme s'explique mieux en tant qu'ethnicité mobilisée. La mobilisation de la culture et d'une histoire communes se conjugue généralement avec une compétition économique croissante et une mobilité descendante. L'insécurité politique, l'anxiété face au statut et à l'identité individuelle se traduisent en une perte d'appartenance collective. Le nationalisme promet …
Race and Nation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
The post apartheid state forges ahead with nation building, reconciliation, and the cultivation of an inclusive non-racial citizenship. The ANC government seems poised somewhere between denying the importance of group specific realities and having to realise the importance of 'difference' in coping with the apartheid legacy. While the state cannot ignore language, culture and identity, its central problem is how to reconcile 'difference' with com…
Corporatism as Ethnic Compromise: Labour Relations in Post‐Apartheid South Africa
Conventional wisdom associates corporatism with undemocratic elite collusion, or worse, with the fascist order of Mussolini, Franco or Perq́n. However, another form of corporatism involves institutionalised bargaining between representatives of organised interest groups. This democratic corporatism engages in trade‐offs between labour unions, business and state bureaucrats. Where these groups largely coincide with different ethnic constituencies,…
The purchased revolution in South Africa: Lessons for democratic transformation
The relatively peaceful changeover of political power in South Africa has been greatly facilitated by the vast resources of the state and a private‐sector‐led economy. Many potential trouble‐makers were bought off by being put on the payroll of the public service or being absorbed into even more lucrative private business. Ideologues of the old regime were pacified through generous retrenchment packages. This purchased revolution has rapidly prod…
The Nazis of Africa: Apartheid as Holocaust
known cabinet minister. Because the ANC's chief ethics' commissioner and widely respected legal expert and human rights advocate articulates controversial opinions forthrightly, his account has to be taken seriously. The authors' powerful polemic seeks to remind South Africans of the atrocities committed by criminal regime; it records the well-known racial laws and exhorts apartheid's beneficiaries to take collective responsibility. It denies tha…
Cultural pessimism or genuine multiculturalism: A response to Giliomee
No abstract available
The Opening of the Apartheid Mind
Ethnicity in Focus: The South African Case
The Opening of the Apartheid Mind: Options for the New South Africa
The politics of ethnic identity: Comparing South Africa
South Africa represents a microcosm of major global conflicts. This laboratory of polyethnic group relations may well teach the rest of the world a lesson of multiracial coexistence and a bridging of extreme class distinctions through pragmatic development policies. Above all, a 'negotiated revolution' now promises peaceful nation-building in a divided society, previously riddled with political violence. The remarkable democratic transformation h…
The Opening of the Apartheid Mind: Options for the New South Africa
Breaking Story: The South African Press
Southern Africa Annual Review 1987/88. Volume 2: Regional Review, Integration, Confrontation, Negotiation
Race and Nation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
The post apartheid state forges ahead with nation building, reconciliation, and the cultivation of an inclusive non-racial citizenship. The ANC government seems poised somewhere between denying the importance of group specific realities and having to realise the importance of 'difference' in coping with the apartheid legacy. While the state cannot ignore language, culture and identity, its central problem is how to reconcile 'difference' with com…
The politics of ethnic identity: Comparing South Africa
South Africa represents a microcosm of major global conflicts. This laboratory of polyethnic group relations may well teach the rest of the world a lesson of multiracial coexistence and a bridging of extreme class distinctions through pragmatic development policies. Above all, a 'negotiated revolution' now promises peaceful nation-building in a divided society, previously riddled with political violence. The remarkable democratic transformation h…
Breaking Story: The South African Press
South Africa: Sociological Perspectives
The Rise of Black Consciousness in South Africa
Xenophobia, Asylum Seekers, and Immigration Policies in Germany
In the context of Germany's anti-Semitic past, current attitudes towards refugees and immigrants are surveyed and compared with other countries. Higher levels of xenophobia in former East Germany, despite far fewer foreigners than in West Germany, is explained with the official denial of the fascist legacy, in contrast to an effective reeducation policy and dealing with the Nazi past in the West. Islamophobia and allegations of welfare tourism ha…
Political Violence, 'Tribalism', and Inkatha
Probably no other aspect of the South African conflict has elicited more divergent explanations and misinterpretations than the ongoing political violence. It is variously attributed to (1) de Klerk's double agenda and unreformed police; (2) a 'third force' of right-wing elements in the security establishment, bent on derailing the Government's negotiation agenda; (3) Inkatha-A.N.C. rivalry, engineered by ambitious Buthelezi in danger of being si…
South Africa without Apartheid
Ethnic Power Mobilized: Can South Africa Change
Ethnic Power Mobilized: Can South Africa Change
The South African Power-élite: A Survey of Ideological Commitment
L'enquête recense les attitudes de 349 personnes provenant du parlement, de la fonction publique ou du monde des affaires, à l'égard des Africains, des incidences économiques de l'aparteid et de ses perspectives d'évolution, ainsi que d'autres questions controversées de la politique « blanche ».Les résultats de cette enquête sont examinés à la lumière des changements idéologiques chez les Afrikanders. En évitant de considérer les blancs comme un …
Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada
Les politiques de l'identité. Nationalisme, patriotisme et multiculturalisme
Les politiques de l'identité Nationalisme, patriotisme et multiculturalisme Le nationalisme s'explique mieux en tant qu'ethnicité mobilisée. La mobilisation de la culture et d'une histoire communes se conjugue généralement avec une compétition économique croissante et une mobilité descendante. L'insécurité politique, l'anxiété face au statut et à l'identité individuelle se traduisent en une perte d'appartenance collective. Le nationalisme promet …
The Opening of the Apartheid Mind
Forecasting scenarios for South Africa
Prospects of compromise between African and Afrikaner nationalists: Reflections on ANC perceptions
1988). Prospects of compromise between African and Afrikaner nationalists: Reflections on ANC perceptions. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 374-377
Rational Choice in Ethnic Mobilization: A Critique
Racist capitalism versus capitalist non-racialism in South Africa
Race, Class, and Power. Ideology and Revolutionary Change in Plural Societies
Ideologies of dedicationvs.blueprints of expedience1
The motivating role of ideology seems central to the antagonists in a polarizing conflict. Apartheid is frequently associated with an elaborate ideology of puritan calvinist authoritarianism, aimed at legitimating white domination, at least in the perception of its beleaguered defenders. However, it may be argued that compared with the role of ideologies in other conflict situations and dictatorships, the defence of White privileges does not repr…
Modernizing Racial Domination. The Dynamics of South African Politics
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 467 - 468
Visions of the Future during Political Transitions
Research Article| June 01 2003 Visions of the Future during Political Transitions: COMPARING AFRIKANER AND ISRAELI ATTITUDES Heribert Adam Heribert Adam Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 95–110. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-2_75-95 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Heribert Adam; Visions of the Future during Political Transitions: COMPARING AFRI…
The Nazis of Africa: Apartheid as Holocaust
known cabinet minister. Because the ANC's chief ethics' commissioner and widely respected legal expert and human rights advocate articulates controversial opinions forthrightly, his account has to be taken seriously. The authors' powerful polemic seeks to remind South Africans of the atrocities committed by criminal regime; it records the well-known racial laws and exhorts apartheid's beneficiaries to take collective responsibility. It denies tha…
Comparing South Africa: Nonracialism versus ethnonationalist revival
Reluctant reconciliation is taking shape in South Africa. The ambivalent alliance between the two major contenders for power, the National Party (NP) and the African National Congress (ANC) results from a balance of forces where neither side can defeat the other. It is their mutual weakness rather than their equal strength, that makes both long-time adversaries embrace negotiations for powersharing. Like a forced marriage, the working arrangement…
Exclusive Nationalism versus inclusive patriotism: State Ideologies for divided Societies
(1990). Exclusive Nationalism versus inclusive patriotism: State Ideologies for divided Societies. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research: Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 569-587
Estudiantes y Universidad
The South African Power-élite: A Survey of Ideological Commitment
L'enquête recense les attitudes de 349 personnes provenant du parlement, de la fonction publique ou du monde des affaires, à l'égard des Africains, des incidences économiques de l'aparteid et de ses perspectives d'évolution, ainsi que d'autres questions controversées de la politique « blanche ».Les résultats de cette enquête sont examinés à la lumière des changements idéologiques chez les Afrikanders. En évitant de considérer les blancs comme un …
South African Politics
South Africa: Sociological Perspectives
Modernizing Racial Domination. The Dynamics of South African Politics
Modernizing Racial Domination. The Dynamics of South African Politics
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 467 - 468
Politics in South Africa
Modernizing Racial Domination: South Africa's Political Dynamics
The publisher tells us that the author is a native of Germany who spent some time in South Africa and who is now at Simon Fraser University. It is a pity that the publisher did not have the author's style revised by somebody who has mastered the art of using the English language for the purpose of lucid exposition. As it is, the reader is hard put to discover exactly what the author is trying to say in these turgid pages. Of course, only a minori…
Modernizing Racial Dominance
Modernizing Racial Domination: The Dynamics of South African Politics
The Rise of Black Consciousness in South Africa
Südafrika. Soziologie einer Rassengesellschaft
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 283 - 284
Conquest and Conflict in South Africa
Of all the instances of European conquest, indignant world opinion views the legalised racism of white settlers in South Africa as the worst case. As the last remnant of traditional colonialism, the inevitable doom of the whites is predicted, and only the time span of an outdated racial domination is in question. The main reason for this outcome of a polarising racial confrontation is seen in the intransigence of prejudiced settlers who stubbornl…
Livres/Books
Race, Class, and Power. Ideology and Revolutionary Change in Plural Societies
Ideologies of dedicationvs.blueprints of expedience1
The motivating role of ideology seems central to the antagonists in a polarizing conflict. Apartheid is frequently associated with an elaborate ideology of puritan calvinist authoritarianism, aimed at legitimating white domination, at least in the perception of its beleaguered defenders. However, it may be argued that compared with the role of ideologies in other conflict situations and dictatorships, the defence of White privileges does not repr…
Race, Class, and Power: Ideology and Revolutionary Change in Plural Societies.Leo Kuper
Livres/Books
Survival Politics: Afrikanerdom in Search of a New Ideology
IN his thorough sociological study of Afrikaner ideology, Dunbar Moodie has shown that the civil theology most adequate to the exigencies of the 1930s was an interpretation 'which was tight enough to unite Afrikaners and yet loose enough to allow considerable difference of opinion on practical matters'.2While the same functional needs for a proper ideology remain for the 1970S and 80s, 'civil theology' can no longer fulfil this task. This is main…
Interests Behind Afrikaner Power∗∗
Historical trends in the role of major White interest groups (business, farmers, unions and civil servants) are sketched. The present influence of these trends in political decision making is evaluated. An analysis of intra‐ White cleavages may point to potential splits within Afrikanerdom. However, despite conflicts about strategies, Afrikaner unity is hardly threatened because it remains a precondition of maintaining political power for all sec…
How Long Will South Africa Survive
Three Perspectives on the Future of South Africa
Ethnic Power Mobilized: Can South Africa Change
Rejoinder to pieres on 'ethnic power mobilized'∗
Ethnic mobilisation and the politics of patronage in South Africa
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