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The ethnicisation of politics and politicisation of ethnicity, culture and political development in South Africa
Imperialist ideology, romantic anti-capitalism and J.A. Hobson
African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented July, 1982Imperialist ideology remains an elusive concept. Most often it is taken to indicate a body of texts that justify and legitimize imperialism and are employed more or less consciously by imperialists to rationalize and propagandize their political behaviour and economic goals. Or, imperialist ideology is conceived as an organically related group of ideas or themes, a body of thought, so to speak, which make up the substance and contents of such texts and can be pointed out by means of critical analysis to be also existing as the hidden meaning of a more varied canon of literature, if not of the literature of a whole period or "epoch". Both definitions run the risk of reductionism and of bringing together under one heading texts and concepts that are heterogeneous and contradictory. An alternative way of defining imperialist ideology would be to see it as the expression of a certain historically determined mentality or psychology, in which case the decoding of imperialist ideology must consist in the systematic construction of the essence or structure of such a mentality or collective (un)conscious. More reasonably, perhaps, imperialist ideology may be regarded as a "mental structure" or "way of thinking" by means of and through which several different and often contradictory types of contents can be communicated and brought to function
ALESSANDRO STANZIANI. Labor on the Fringes of Empire: Voice, Exit and the Law. Alessandro Stanziani. Labor on the Fringes of Empire: Voice, Exit and the Law. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xiii, 334. Cloth $109.00.
Scares and Possibilities:The COVID-19 Emergency, the Disruption of Globalization, and the Reinvention of the Welfare State
Indian Ocean Networks and the Transmutations of Servitude:The Protector of Indian Immigrants and the Administration of Freed Slaves and Indentured Labourers in Durban in the 1870s
Review of Erin E. Stiles and Katrina Daly Thompson (editors), Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, marriage, and sexuality on the Swahili coast. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2015
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