Do South Africans Exist?, livre ebook

Do South Africans Exist? Addresses a gap in contemporary studies of nationalism and the nation, providing a critical study of South African nationalism, against a broader context of African nationalism in general. The author argues that the nation is a politcal community whose form is given in relation to the pursuit of democracy and freedom, and that if democratic authoriy is lodged in 'the people', what matters is the way that this 'people' is defined, delimited and produced.
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
Introduction: The Sublime Object of Nationalism
Chapter 1: The Nature of African Nationalism
Chapter 2: The Democratic Origin of Nations
Chapter 3: African Nationalism in South Africa
Chapter 4: The South African Nation
Chapter 5: The Impossibility of the National Community
Chapter 6: The Production of the Public Domain
Chapter 7: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Identity of ‘the People’
Conclusion: Notes Towards a Theory of the Democratic Limit
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index