Racialisation and the afterlife of colonial divide and rule
A response to Avtar Brah
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12424665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Z Erasmus (0000-0003-1528-0992, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 494-500 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1070-289X • E-ISSN: 1547-3384 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1070289x.2019.1626604 |
| OpenAlex | W2948190572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
In this response to Avtar Brah’s review of Race Otherwise (2017) I briefly clarify the relationship between the concepts ‘racism’, ‘race’ and ‘racialisation’. I expand my framing of the book as less about racism and more about specific processes of racialisation. To this end I draw on material from and beyond the book to illustrate the value of the concept ‘racialisation’ for understanding the afterlife of colonial divide and rule in South Africa and other former British colonies in Africa. I show the ways in which re-articulations of the ‘signification-action complex’ at the heart of processes of racialisation in post-1994 South Africa produce a politics of evasion as well as tensions between struggles for recognition on the one hand and on the other, struggles for justice and freedom. With these re-articulations come varying convergences - of claims of culture, belonging and victimhood, genomic science, jurisprudence and global discourse on indigenous rights – that reify notions of ‘race’ and ‘tribe’
Afterlife · Colonialism · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · South African History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |