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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Afrikaner nationalism"”.
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Art, gender ideology and Afrikaner nationalism : a history of the Voortrekker Monument tapestries
… culture played in the growth and articulation of Afrikaner nationalism. For this reason it focuses not only on the central topic under discussion, namely the Voortrekker tapestries, but also on the discourses that informed the production of these tapestries and the circumstances surrounding the …
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Gender, community and identity : women and Afrikaner nationalism in the Volksmoeder discourse of Die Boerevrou (1919-1931)
… relationship between Afrikaans women and Afrikaner nationalism, this thesis is primarily concerned with the construction of the social identities of Afrikaans women between 1919 and 1931, the crucial formative years of Afrikaner nationalism. The relationship between women and Afrikaner …
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The South African War and Afrikaner nationalism in Afrikaans-language films and television : changing representations circa 1930s - 2000s
… African War is an important historical event for Afrikaners, not only because of the suffering endured, but also for how the war came to symbolise Afrikaner identity and ethno-nationalism. The South African War is central to Afrikaner beliefs and conceptions of the Afrikaner volk, or nation, its …
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Women, welfare and the nurturing of Afrikaner nationalism : a social history of the Afrikaanse Christelike Vroue Vereniging, c.1870-1939
… (ACVV), placed within the context of Afrikaner nationalist activity, and traces the variety of ways in which white, Afrikaans, middle-class women sought to construct a racially exclusive 'Afrikaner' people. Stereotypical portrayals of Afrikaner women as passive followers of an ideology …
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Afrikaner Nationalism and the Production of a White Cultural Heritage: An analysis of selected works undertaken by Dirk Visser and Gabriel Fagan from 1967-1993
This dissertation entitled The Afrikaner Nationalism and the Production of a White Cultural Heritage: An analysis of selected works undertaken by Dirk Visser and Gabriel Fagan from 1967-1993 examines the construct of a white settler heritage as promoted and implemented through various restorations …
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Becoming liberal : a history of the National Union of South African students : 1945-1955
… for white South African students. The rise of Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and the establishment of the ultra-nationalist Afrikaanse Studentebond (ANS) led to the disaffiliation from NUSAS of the student bodies of the Afrikaans-medium universities. Until the end of the Second World War, …
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Between memory and history: the restoration of Tulbagh as cultural signifier
… under the Union government and then under the Afrikaner Nationalist government to understand how Afrikaner Nationalism was superseded by the creation of a white South African identity. Pierre Nora's theories around memory and identity are explored and applied in order to contextualise the …
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Economic nationalism : a historical perspective on economic empowerment in South Africa with special reference to aspects of the manifestation of Black Economic Empowerment
… BEE with the economic empowerment strategies of Afrikaner nationalism in order to root discussion around Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment within a context of economic nationalism. This approach avoids narrow critiques of BEE as affirmative action and provides a fresh historical perspective …
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The right in transition: an analysis of the politics and ideology of the white rightwing in historical context
… powerful ideologies underlying it, in particular Afrikaner Nationalism and European fascism, and this study explores these influences. However, it was felt that a new theoretical framework needed to be elaborated in order better to understand the motivation behind and roots of support for …
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Building an inclusive South African society: The position of young, white Afrikaans speaking women
… This dissertation confronts the legacy of Afrikaner nationalism, which essentially instituted and upheld apartheid and still undergirds white people's privilege in democratic South Africa. Engagements were undertaken with ten white, Afrikaans speaking women between the ages of 24 and 32. …
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Kwasuka Sukela: re-imagined bodies of a (South African) 1990s born woman
… erected to celebrate British colonialism and Afrikaner nationalism, I focus on the paucity of iconic black women in history and mythology. I perform figures who I construct from existing histories and look to the women in my own family archive to memorialise them. For this reason, performance …
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Border thinking and the modern Plaasroman: a study of three novels
… of the 1920s and the 1930s, a period when Afrikaner nationalism was incipient. Later farm novelists brought new energy to the plaasroman during the second half of the twentieth century. In the modern plaasroman subgenre, challenges to racist-nationalist ideals are exhibited, along with …
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South African film music: representation of racial, cultural and national identities, 1931-1969
… a continuum of films, from earlier colonial/Afrikaner nationalist-oriented films to later films with an explicitly anti-apartheid message. The final chapter returns to the themes of Chapter 2, exploring film-musical representation of Afrikaner nationalism. As with Chapters 3 and 4, the source …
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The Gateway of tomorrow: modernist town planning on Cape Town's Foreshore 1930-70
… ownership of the space and marked the rise of Afrikaner nationalism and capital. This 'Afrikanerisation' of the Foreshore will be shown in the various commemorative events, naming practices, monuments and buildings that arose on this contested space. This will also highlight the recurring …
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The teaching of economics : an investigation into the aims, texts, and assessment of the senior secondary economics curriculum in Western Cape schools
… Christian character of economics, economics and Afrikaner nationalism, economics and capitalist values, as well as the vocational and formative value of economics. They are considered central to an understanding of how classroom economics has been affected by CNE, apartheid doctrine, and …
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Transmitting the Transition: Media Events and Post-Apartheid South African National Identity
… had a powerful influence on the development of Afrikaner nationalism, so the “liveness” of television helped to consolidate the “newness” of the post-apartheid South African national identity.
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The Making of Pretoria as the Citadel of Apartheid, 1948-73
… already the most significant urban centre for Afrikaners, because it contained all the national offices of the public service, and, to a lesser extent, because it was the capital of the old Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. The focus of the dissertation is on the early apartheid period (1948-73), …
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The negative effects of the liberals' usurpation of th Green Movement : a study in the demise of the liberal paradigm
… in South Africa, it tended to challenge the Afrikaner rulers as a racial group. In such racially dominated contestations, ideology tends to be secondary. liberals incited Blacks to challenge the Afrikaner State. In the process, liberalism became a stop gap measure of trying to topple …