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Moralische Ökonomie. Bundesdeutsche Automobilunternehmen und Apartheid
Zeithistorische Forschungen, 2016 During apartheid some 50 West German companies ran their own manufacturing plants in South Africa. How did these companies legitimise their activities? Following a long-prevailing period of cultivated ignorance of the situation for the black majority of ...
Knud Andresen
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Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides a systematic synthesis of contemporary elite sociology through the analytical lens of change and stability. We distinguish between two types of change: change within elites, referring to transformations in elite composition, circulation, or internal characteristics; and change by elites, designating processes whereby ...
Lena Ajdacic +13 more
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Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists
Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies"Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists: Anti-Semitism in South Africa from 1948 to the Present. In the third volume of Milton Shain's history of antisemitism in South Africa, he traces and unpacks hostile attitudes towards Jews and irrational fantasies ...
Willem Du Plessis
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The forgotten struggle of Albert Geyser against racism and apartheid
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014 Albertus (Albert) Stephanus Geyser (10 Feb. 1918 – 13 June 1985) was a South African cleric, scholar and anti-apartheid theologian. On 17 February 2014 his alma mater, the Faculty of Theology of the University of Pretoria, presented the first ...
Andries G. van Aarde +2 more
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Iceland’s Involvement in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle [PDF]
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla, 2016 The transnational anti-apartheid movement was heavily motivated by the postwar emphasis on human rights and decolonisation, and challenged by Cold War politics and economic interests. The aim of this article is to examine Iceland’s involvement in the anti-apartheid struggles with focus on the establishment of the unified anti-apartheid movement SAGA ...
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Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper intervenes in contemporary sociological debates over the relationship between race and class by excavating the early writings of Michael Burawoy. Against the prevailing polarization between twin absolutist models in which either racism or capitalism alone possesses causal force, we argue that Burawoy articulates a third position—one
Zachary Levenson, Marcel Paret
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BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2017 Background During the era of apartheid in South Africa, a number of mental health professionals were vocal about the need for socio-economic and political reform.
Jason Bantjes +2 more
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores Australian media commentary on white Rhodesians migrating to Australia, focusing on the period of Malcolm Fraser's prime ministership (1975–1983). The main argument is that the Australian media debates about whether to classify white Rhodesians as ‘migrants’ or ‘refugees’ were not merely semantic but reflected a deeper ...
George Bishi, Ana Stevenson
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The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract The past decade has seen a marked shift as many previously liberal democratic states have backslidden, taking authoritarian turns. How should liberal actors respond to democratic backsliding by others? Although it might seem that it is vital for liberal actors to react robustly to avoid complicity or to maintain their liberal integrity, this ...
James Pattison
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Die teologiese en morele regverdiging van apartheid en 'n status confessionis
Acta Theologica, 2004 Both the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) and the — then — Reformed Ecumenical Synod (RES) eventually declared a status confessionis against the theological and moral justification of apartheid.
P. J. Strauss
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