National Culture In Post Apartheid Namibia

Author : Michael Akuupa
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783905758696

Get Book

National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia by Michael Akuupa Pdf

National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia addresses the challenges of creating a national culture in the context of a historical legacy that has emphasised ethnic diversity. The state-sponsored Annual National Culture Festival (ANCF) focuses on the Kavango region in north-eastern Namibia. Akuupa critically examines the notion of Kavango-ness as a colonial construct and its subsequent reconstitution and appropriation. He analyses the way in which cultural representations are produced by local people in the postcolonial African context of nation building and national reconciliation by bringing visions of cosmopolitanism and modernity into critical dialogue with the colonial past. Competing cultural festivals are used as celebratory social spaces in which performers and local people participate whilst negotiating a sense of national belonging in an ongoing tension between the need to celebrate diversity, yet strive for unity. This is the first study to discuss the comprehensive role played by those cultural festivals, which were organised in the ethnic homelands during the time Namibia fell under South African control.

Author : Michael Akuupa
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Dance
ISBN : 9783905758429

Get Book

National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia by Michael Akuupa Pdf

‘National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia‘ addresses the challenges of creating a ‘national’ culture in the context of a historical legacy that has emphasised ethnic diversity. The state sponsored Annual National Culture Festival (ANCF) focuses on the Kavango region in north-eastern Namibia. Akuupa critically examines the notion of Kavango-ness as a colonial construct and its subequent reconsitution and appropriation. He analyses the way in which cultural representations are produced by local people in the postcolonial African context of nation building and national reconciliation by bringing visions of cosmopolitanism and modernity into critical dialogue with the colonial past.

Author : John T. Friedman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1782383239

Get Book

Imagining the Post-Apartheid State by John T. Friedman Pdf

In northwest Namibia, people's political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State. By elucidating the State through a focus on the social, historical and cultural processes that help constitute it, this study helps chart new territory for anthropology, and it contributes an ethnographic perspective to a wider set of interdisciplinary debates on the State and state processes.

Author : Werner Zips,Manuela Zips-Mairitsch
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643910905

Get Book

Bewildering Borders by Werner Zips,Manuela Zips-Mairitsch Pdf

Transfrontier conservation challenges African borders, the "colonial scars of history". The global tourism industry has discovered the potential of African borderlands for adventure travel. Iconic animals and indigenous cultures are marketed in the same breath, often evoking stereotypical images of "Wild Africa". Can ecotourism and ethno-tourism be commended as viable panaceas for environmental protection and development? The marketing of nature and culture raises important questions on the meaningful inclusion of local communities as tourism entrepreneurs. Living museums and cultural villages are emerging as start-ups of local communities. They commodify ethnicity albeit on their own terms. This volume debates the economy of conservation, providing diverse perspectives on an issue of great contemporary relevance.

Author : Charles M. Fombad,Nico Steytler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192647818

Get Book

Democracy, Elections, and Constitutionalism in Africa by Charles M. Fombad,Nico Steytler Pdf

The third wave of democracy that reached African shores at the end of the Cold War brought with it a dramatic decline from 1990 onwards in dictatorships, military regimes, one-party governments, and presidents for life. Multiparty democracy was at the core of the constitutional revolutions that swept through most of Africa in those watershed years. However, that wave is either losing momentum or receding - or being reversed in its entirety. This volume examines democracy and elections in Africa, a focus motivated by two concerns. First, after 30 years it is important to take stock of the state of constitutional democracy on the continent. The democratic gains of the 1990s and 2000s seem to be falling by the wayside, with the evidence mounting that regimes are concealing authoritarianism under the veneer of elections, doing so in an international context where populist regimes are on the rise and free and fair multiparty elections are consequently no longer a given. It is becoming a battle to protect and retain constitutional democracy. The second reason for this volume's focus on democracy and elections is that multiparty democracy is essential for the proper functioning of the state in addressing the major problems facing Africa - internal conflict, inequality and lack of development, and poor governance and corruption. The focus of this volume is thus on how competitive politics or multiparty democracy can be realized and how, through competition, such politics could lead to better policy and practice outcomes.

Author : Lennart Bolliger
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821447413

Get Book

Apartheid’s Black Soldiers by Lennart Bolliger Pdf

New oral histories from Black Namibian and Angolan troops who fought in apartheid South Africa’s security forces reveal their involvement, and its impact on their lives, to be far more complicated than most historical scholarship has acknowledged. In anticolonial struggles across the African continent, tens of thousands of African soldiers served in the militaries of colonial and settler states. In southern Africa, they often made up the bulk of these militaries and, in some contexts, far outnumbered those who fought in the liberation movements’ armed wings. Despite these soldiers' significant impact on the region’s military and political history, this dimension of southern Africa’s anticolonial struggles has been almost entirely ignored in previous scholarship. Black troops from Namibia and Angola spearheaded apartheid South Africa’s military intervention in their countries’ respective anticolonial war and postindependence civil war. Drawing from oral history interviews and archival sources, Lennart Bolliger challenges the common framing of these wars as struggles of national liberation fought by and for Africans against White colonial and settler-state armies. Focusing on three case studies of predominantly Black units commanded by White officers, Bolliger investigates how and why these soldiers participated in South Africa’s security forces and considers the legacies of that involvement. In tackling these questions, he rejects the common tendency to categorize the soldiers as “collaborators” and “traitors” and reveals the un-national facets of anticolonial struggles. Finally, the book’s unique analysis of apartheid military culture shows how South Africa’s military units were far from monolithic and instead developed distinctive institutional practices, mythologies, and concepts of militarized masculinity.

Author : Christopher Hope
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783906927206

Get Book

Developmentalism, Dependency, and the State by Christopher Hope Pdf

Why does Namibia's economy look the way it does today? Was the reliance on raw materials for exports and on the service sector for employment an inevitability? And for what reasons has the manufacturing sector - the vehicle for economic development for many now-high income countries throughout the 19th and 20th centuries - seen its growth held back? With these questions in mind, this book offers an extensive analysis of industrial development and economic change in Namibia since 1900, exploring their causes, trajectory, vicissitudes, context, and politics. Its focus is particularly on the motivations behind the economic decisions of the state, arguing that power relations - both internationally and domestically - have held firm a status quo that has resisted efforts towards profound economic change. This work is the first in-depth economic study covering both the colonial and independence eras of Namibia's history and provides the first history of the country's manufacturing sector.

Author : Kletus Likuwa
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783906927190

Get Book

Voices from the Kavango by Kletus Likuwa Pdf

Voices from the Kavango explores the contribution that the life histories and the voices of the contract labourers make to our understanding of the contract labour system in Namibia. In particular it asks: is it possible to view the migration of the Kavango labourers as a progressive step, or does the paradigm of exploitation and suppression remain the dominant one? The study highlights contract labourers engaging in a defeating activity and their disappointment with the little rewards which were non-lasting solutions to their problems. The realization of their entrapment under the contract system and the eventual frustrations led to the political mobilization for independence by SWAPO.

Author : Ian van der Waag,Albert Grundlingh
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781928480341

Get Book

In Different Times by Ian van der Waag,Albert Grundlingh Pdf

This is the first attempt to bring together diverse scholars, using different lenses, to study South Africa’s Border War. As a book, it is critical in approach, provides deeper reflection, and focuses specifically on the SADF experience of the war. The result is a more complex picture of the war’s dynamics and its legacies. Although South Africa is a vastly different country today, the study of the Border War opens a range of questions, also relevant to contemporary deployments such as in Lesotho (1998) and the Central African Republic (2013). It includes the debate on participation in foreign conflicts; on the deployment, design and preparation of appropriate, modern armed forces and their use as foreign policy instruments in far‑off theatres; on military planning; and, as the historical controversies regarding the battles at Cuito Cuanavale and Bangui illustrate, on the interface between foreign campaigning and domestic politics.

Author : Sarala Krishnamurthy,Nelson Mlambo,Helen Vale
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783906927411

Get Book

Writing Namibia by Sarala Krishnamurthy,Nelson Mlambo,Helen Vale Pdf

A rich collection of captivating and remarkable chapters, Writing Namibia Coming of Age presents research of senior academics as well as emerging scholars from Namibia. The book includes wide ranging topics in literature written in English and other Namibian languages, such as German, Afrikaans and Oshiwambo. Almost thirty years after independence, Namibia literature has come of age with new writers experimenting with different genres and varied aspects of literature. As an aesthetic object and social phenomenon, Namibian literature still fulfils the function of social conscience and as new writers emerge, there is ample demonstration that, pluri-vocal as they are, Namibian literary texts relate in a complex manner to the socio-historical trends shaping the country. The Namibian literary-critical tradition continues to paint some versions of Namibia and what we find in this new and highly welcome volume is a canvas of rich voices and perspectives that demonstrate an intricate diversity in terms of culture, language, and themes.

Author : Reinhart Kssler
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789991642109

Get Book

Namibia and Germany: Negotiating the Past by Reinhart Kssler Pdf

100 years since the end of German colonial rule in Namibia, the relationship between the former colonial power and the Namibian communities who were affected by its brutal colonial policies remains problematic, and interpretations of the past are still contested. This book examines the ongoing debates, conflicts and confrontations over the past. It scrutinises the consequences of German colonial rule, its impact on the descendants of victims of the 190408 genocide, Germanys historical responsibility, and ways in which post-colonial reconciliation might be achieved.

Author : Marion O'Callaghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Education
ISBN : 9232014769

Get Book

Namibia by Marion O'Callaghan Pdf

Author : Wendi A. Haugh
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739188460

Get Book

Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia by Wendi A. Haugh Pdf

When Namibia gained its independence from South Africa in 1990, the new government began dismantling the divisive apartheid state and building a unified nation-state. What does this new nation look like from the perspective of ordinary citizens? In Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia, Wendi Haugh provides an ethnographic portrayal of the nation as imagined by people living in the former ethnic homeland of Ovamboland, with a particular focus on the lyrics of songs composed and performed by Catholic youth. The author argues that these youth draw on conflicting ideologies—hierarchical and egalitarian, nationalist and cosmopolitan—from multiple sources to construct a multi-faceted sense of national identity. She reveals how their vision of the nation—framed as neutrally national—is deeply rooted in specific local histories and cultures.

Author : Lars Dahlström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Educational change
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111606021

Get Book

Post-apartheid Teacher Education Reform in Namibia by Lars Dahlström Pdf

This thesis is about teacher education reform. It is a narrative of attempted change in the area of teacher education in post-apartheid Namibia.

Author : Michele Langfield,William Logan,Mairead Nic Craith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135190699

Get Book

Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights by Michele Langfield,William Logan,Mairead Nic Craith Pdf

This theoretically innovative anthology investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity, defining and establishing cultural citizenship, and enforcing human rights. It is the first publication to address the notions of cultural diversity, cultural heritage and human rights in one volume. Heritage provides the basis of humanity’s rich cultural diversity. While there is a considerable literature dealing separately with cultural diversity, cultural heritage and human rights, this book is distinctive and has contemporary relevance in focusing on the intersection between the three concepts. Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights establishes a fresh approach that will interest students and practitioners alike and on which future work in the heritage field might proceed.