Baas or Klaas ? Afrikaner Working-Class Responses to Transformation in South Africa, ca. 1977–2002
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11213639 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Danelle Van Zyl-Hermann (0000-0002-1078-1360, University of the Free State, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Pages | 142-158 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Labor and Working-Class History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-5479 • E-ISSN: 1471-6445 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0147547914000143 |
| OpenAlex | W2047846316 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 22 |
White workers and white working-class politics have been neglected in the historiography of South Africa during the second half of the twentieth century. This article seeks to extricate white workers from this historiographical neglect and fracture homogenizing representations of white, specifically Afrikaner, experiences of democratization. It does so by reintroducing class to a debate dominated by race. Employing a discursive analysis sensitive to issues of class, it shows that white workers were confronted with democratizing change and disempowerment more than a decade before the end of apartheid and suggests that class politics continue to inform white responses in post-apartheid South Africa. In this way, it argues for a historical, discursive approach to uncovering the power dynamics of class and the complex intersection of working-class and racial identities in the late twentieth century
Class (philosophy · Democracy · Democratization · Epistemology · Historiography · Neglect · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Race (biology · Sociology · White (mutation · Working class · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · South African History and Culture
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |