Overview
- Explores how Western European societies responded to the apartheid system in South Africa
- Traces the global and international connections between and within national anti-apartheid movements in Western Europe
- Chapters cover human rights, ethics and the economy; representations of apartheid in culture and media; transnational entanglements in politics; and the role of the church in anti-apartheid movements
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Moral and Economy
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Apartheid in Culture and Media
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Transnational Entanglements in Politics and Churches
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About this book
This edited collection examines how Western European countries have responded and been influenced by the apartheid system in South Africa. The debate surrounding apartheid in South Africa underwent a shift in the second half of the 20th century, with long held positive, racist European opinions of white South Africans slowly declining since decolonisation in the 1960s, and the increase in the importance of human rights in international politics. While previous studies have approached this question in the context of national histories, more or less detached from each other, this edited collection offers a broader insight into the transnational and entangled histories of Western European and South African societies. The contributors use exemplary case studies to trace the change of perception, covering a plurality of reactions in different societies and spheres: from the political and social, to the economic and cultural. At the same time, the collection emphasizes the interconnections of those reactions to what has been called the last ‘overtly racist regime’ (George Frederickson) of the twentieth century.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Knud Andresen is Senior Researcher at the Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg and Adjunct Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Sebastian Justke is a historian and research assistant at the Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg, Germany.
Detlef Siegfried is Professor of Modern German and European History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid in Western Europe
Editors: Knud Andresen, Sebastian Justke, Detlef Siegfried
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53284-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53283-3Published: 13 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53286-4Published: 14 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53284-0Published: 12 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 271
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social History, European History, History of Sub-Saharan Africa, Imperialism and Colonialism, World History, Global and Transnational History