Between Recognition and Resentment
An Afrikaner Trade Union's Brand of Post-Nationalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2137702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob R Boersema (University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 408-425 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0184 • E-ISSN: 1469-2872 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00020184.2012.740884 |
| OpenAlex | W1988956047 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 28 |
What comes after Afrikaner nationalism? This article presents a detailed analysis of the discourse of the mainly white Afrikaner trade union Solidarity to explore Afrikaner identity politics after apartheid. Solidarity has claimed a remarkably prominent position in the post-apartheid debates about Afrikaner identity, race and class. The trade union's success, I argue, should be explained within the context of the neoliberal elite transition and the uneven impact of the African National Congress (ANC)'s policies of racial redress. Both developments affect particularly the lower middle class of Afrikaners. My analysis exposes subtle shifts in Solidarity's rhetoric after 1994: away from the language of Afrikaner nationalism and white supremacy, and towards a new discourse organised around the tropes of ‘rights’ and ‘belonging’. This discourse has given new legitimacy to Solidarity in the post-apartheid political landscape; while simultaneously repositioning Afrikaners as a victimised, threatened and no-longer-privileged minority. However, a tension in Solidarity's discourse between this new politics of recognition and their politics of resentment remains. I explain this tension through the distorting effects of shame dynamics
Elite · Legitimacy · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resentment · Sociology · Solidarity · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · South African History and Culture
South Africa: Limits To Change
The Afrikaners
Rock the Boat, Don't Rock the Boat, Baby
Warlords Rising
Ethnicity, Inc.
White Flight
“How Do I Live in This Strange Place?”
From Redistribution to Recognition?
Afrikaners in the New South Africa
Bloody Revenge
Postcolonial Whiteness
The Silent Majority
Melissa Steyn, "Whiteness just Isn't What It Used to Be". White Identity in a Changing South Africa
Making White
Then I Was Black
Then I Was Black
Do Whites Have Rights
Heart of Whiteness
Why Race Matters in South Africa
Black economic power and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa
Afrikaner Nationalism
Passionate Politics
Casting a Blind Eye
Shame and the Social Bond
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |