A New Generation of Gustav Prellers? TheFragmente/FAK/Vrye AfrikaanMovement, 1998-2008

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2137703
AutoresMariana Kriel (University of the Free State, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume71
Fascículo3
Páginas426-445
Data de publicação2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrican Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-0184 • E-ISSN: 1469-2872
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00020184.2012.740885
OpenAlexW2085568401
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas18

Defining nationalism as an ideology which holds that the nation should be collectively and freely articulated – both symbolically and institutionally – this article claims (contra Hermann Giliomee and others) that Afrikaner nationalism has outlived apartheid, at least as an elite movement. During the first decade of the 21st century this movement has become consolidated around a few organisations which define their mission, depending on the circumstances, as the defence of multilingualism and minority rights, the defence of Afrikaans, or, unashamedly, the defence of Afrikaner rights and interests. The leaders of the movement, and then specifically the philosophers Danie Goosen and Johann Rossouw, have been identified as a ‘new generation of Gustav Prellers’ (Van Niekerk 2008:84). However, following Breuilly (1993:64), I argue that effective nationalist mobilisation requires (a) for philosophy to be translated into appropriate ideology (which Goosen and Rossouw have managed to do); and (b) for ideology to be simplified and concretised (which they, unlike the Prellers of yore, have failed to do). In putting forward this argument, I revisit the debate about the role of ideology versus that of other factors in the formation and politicisation of an Afrikaner national identity in the first half of the 20th century

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