Description
Book SynopsisThe Politics of Ethnic Nationalism is the first significant local study of National Party and Afrikaner politics.
By focusing on Stellenbosch as a university and a town, the book extends our understanding of the complex interaction between the GNP/HNP and various organizations of the radical right. The book illustrates, at a local level and using detailed materials, how identity was constructed through a process of excluding some (English, Jew, Coloured) and including others. In addition, it examines the ways in which Afrikaner nationalists of all shades of political opinion conceptualized their relationships with English-speaking South Africans and the ways that the rhetoric of republicanism and anti-imperialism were employed by nationalists. The study exposes the complex and Byzantine nature of Afrikaner nationalist politics, revealing the multiplicity of identities and ideologies co-existing within Afrikanerdom, the cross-cutting allegiances and overlapping loyalt
Table of Contents
Introduction: An Historiographical Survey 1. A Survey of Afrikaner Nationalist Politics at the National Level, 1934-1948 2. Stellenbosch ‘Stands for an Idea’ 3. Electoral Politics and Stellenbosch’s Parliamentary Representatives 4. Kultuur Reclaimed: Afrikaner Nationalist Politics and the Stellenbosch District, 1934-1939 5. Stellenbosch Students’ Political Activities and Concerns 6. Political Professors: Commissions, Committees and Manifestos 7. The Politicization of the Everyday: Nationalist Afrikanerdom and the Politics of the Stellenbosch District, 1939-1948
