With the end of apartheid in the country, previously little-used terms have assumed a new prominence, and some existing terms have been renegotiated and assumed new meanings. Scholars of history, politics, language, social sciences, and other fields survey the new significance and meaning of some common terms, and in the process shed considerable light on the nature of post-apartheid South African society. Among the loaded words are development, indigenous knowledge, rights, tradition, truth and reconciliation, and xenophobia. Published in North and South America and the Pacific Rim by Ohio University Press, and in the rest of the world by Jacana Media with the ISBN 978-1-7700-9546-5. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
New South African Keywords sets out to do two things. The first is to provide a guide to the key words and key concepts that have come to shape public and political thought and debate in South Africa since 1994. The second purpose is to provide a compendium of cutting-edge thinking on the new society. In this respect some of the most exciting thinkers and commentators on South Africa have tried to capture the complexity of current debates. The result is a concise and insightful guide to postapartheid South Africa, which should be useful to students, citizens, tourists, business managers, decision makers—in fact, to anyone wanting to make sense of South African society today.
New South African Keywords sets out to do two things. The first is to provide a guide to the key words and key concepts that have come to shape public and political thought and debate in South Africa since 1994. The second purpose is to provide a compendium of cutting-edge thinking on the new society. The result is a concise and insightful guide to postapartheid South Africa, which should be useful to students, citizens, tourists, business managers, decision makers—in fact, to anyone wanting to make sense of South African society today.
