ISBN:
9781868146000
,
1868146006
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (407 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lissoni, Arianna One Hundred Years of the ANC : Debating Liberation Histories Today
Keywords:
African National Congress Congresses
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African National Congress Congresses History
;
African National Congress
;
African National Congress (Afrique du Sud) - Actes de congrès
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1900-1999
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Black people Congresses Politics and government 20th century
;
Government, Resistance to Congresses History 20th century
;
Résistance au gouvernement - Afrique du Sud - Histoire - 20e siècle - Congrès
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HISTORY - Africa - General
;
Black people - Politics and government
;
Government, Resistance to
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Politics and government
;
Noirs - Afrique du Sud - Actes de congrès
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Résistance politique - Afrique du Sud - 20e siècle - Actes de congrès
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Conference papers and proceedings
;
History
;
South Africa Congresses Politics and government 20th century
;
Afrique du Sud - Politique et gouvernement - 20e siècle - Congrès
;
South Africa
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Afrique du Sud - Politique et gouvernement - 20e siècle - Actes de congrès
Abstract:
On 8 January 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, the oldest African nationalist organization on the continent, celebrated its 100th anniversary and this historic event generated significant public debate within both the ANC and South African society at large. Critically reflecting on the ANC's historical trajectory and struggle against colonialism and apartheid than in its centennial year, this is a collection of new work by renowned South African and international scholars. Covering a broad chronological and geographical spectrum and using a diverse range of sources, the
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; First Keynote Address: Fragmentation and Cohesion in the ANC: The First 70 Years; Second Keynote Address: A Continuing Search for Identity: Carrying the Burden of History; Chapter One: One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Struggle History After Apartheid; Chapter Two: Religion And Resistance In Natal, 1900-1910; Chapter Three: Christianity and African Nationalism in South Africa in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; Chapter Four: Charlotte Maxeke: A Celebrated and Neglected Figure in History.
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Five: Imagining the Patriotic Worker: The Idea of 'Decent Work' in the ANC's Political DiscourseChapter Six: Popular Movements, Contentious Spaces and the ANC, 1943-1956; Chapter Seven: Unravelling the 1947 'Doctors' Pact': Race, Metonymy and the Evasions of Nationalist History; Chapter Eight: The Politics of Language and Chief Albert Luthuli's funeral, 30 July 1967; Chapter Nine: Robben Island University Revisited; Chapter Ten: Shishita: A Crisis in the ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1980-811; Chapter Eleven: Comrade Mzwai.
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Twelve: Revisiting Sekhukhuneland: Trajectories of Former UDF Activists in Post-Apartheid South AfricaChapter Thirteen: Regeneration of ANC Political Power, from the 1994 Electoral Victory to the 2012 Centenary; Chapter Fourteen: The ANC: Party Vanguard of the Black Middle Class?; Chapter Fifteen: Globalisation, Recolonisation and the Paradox of Liberation in Southern Africa; Contributors; Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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