Axing the Rainbow
Does Fallism reconfigure post-apartheid nationhood in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19005499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Turner (0000-0001-6487-7053, University of Bayreuth, corresponding author), Irina Turner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81-110 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Africa Politics History and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2336-3274 • E-ISSN: 2570-7558 |
| Publisher | University of Hradec Kralove (PUBLISHER • CZ) |
| DOI | 10.26806/modafr.v7i1.244 |
| OpenAlex | W2964131340 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 6 |
Today, the Rainbow Nation as the central metaphor for postapartheid South Africa falls short of serving as a unifying identification marker due to its tendency to gloss over contrasting living realities of diversified identities and ongoing systemic discrimination. The South African Fallism movements – the student-driven protests against neocolonial structures in academic institutions – spearheaded public criticism with the current state of ongoing social disparity in South Africa and revived the critique of so-called rainbowism, i.e., the belief that a colour-blind society can be created. In an application of Critical Discourse Analysis focusing on mythical metaphors, this article asks to what extent the new president Cyril Ramaphosa in his maiden State of the Nation Address projected a post-Zuma South African nation and answered to the challenges posed by Fallists
Criticism · Media studies · Metaphor · Political economy · Political science · Rainbow · Sociology · Gender Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · South African History and Culture · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
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Mandela and the televised birth of the rainbow nation
Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |