South African Homelands as Frontiers - Apartheid?s Loose Ends in the Postcolonial Era (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

This book explores what happened to the homelands – in many ways the ultimate apartheid disgrace – after the fall of apartheid. This research contributes to understanding the multiple configurations that currently exist in areas formerly declared "homelands" or "Bantustans". Using the concept of frontier zones, the homelands emerge as areas in which the future of the South African postcolony is being renegotiated, contested and remade with hyper-real intensity. This is so because the many fault lines left over from apartheid (its loose ends, so to speak) – between white and black; between different ethnicities; between rich and poor; or differentiated by gender, generation and nationality; between "traditions" and "modernities" or between wilderness and human habitation – are particularly acute and condensed in these so-called "communal areas". Hence, the book argues that it is particularly in these settings that the postcolonial promise of liberation and freedom must face its test. As such, the book offers highly nuanced and richly detailed analyses that go to the heart of the diverse dilemmas of post-apartheid South Africa as a whole, but simultaneously also provides in condensed form an extended case study on the predicaments of African postcoloniality in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies.

Table of Contents

1. South African Homelands as Frontiers: Apartheid’s Loose Ends in the Postcolonial Era – An Introduction

Steffen Jensen and Olaf Zenker

2. Fragments of the Past: Homeland Politics and the South African Transition, 1990–2014

Jason Robinson

3. Material Remains: Artifice versus Artefact(s) in the Archive of Bantustan Rule

Shireen Ally

4. This House Is Not My Own …! Temporalities in a South African Homeland

Steffen Jensen

5. Custom, Normativity and Authority in South Africa

Hylton White

6. South African Land Restitution, White Claimants and the Fateful Frontier of Former KwaNdebele

Olaf Zenker

7. ‘Women Use their Strength in the House’: Savings Clubs in an Mpumalanga Village

Deborah James

8. Moralising Magic? A Brief History of Football Potions in a South African Homeland Area, 1958–2010

Isak Niehaus

9. City Slums, Rural Homesteads: Migrant Culture, Displaced Urbanism and the Citizenship of the Serviced House

Leslie Bank

10. ‘Keeping Land for Their Children’: Generation, Migration and Land in South Africa’s Transkei

Derick A. Fay

11. Epilogue

Joost Fontein

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Southern African Studies
Release date:	May 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Steffen Jensen
Editors:	Steffen Jensen
Authors:	Olaf Zenker
Editors:	Olaf Zenker
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	186
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-05758-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Colonization & independence Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Promotions Books > Promotion > Routledge Politics
LSN:	1-138-05758-4
Barcode:	9781138057586

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