Ndlovu-Gatsheni: Nationalism and National Projects
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Ndlovu-Gatsheni: Nationalism and National Projects

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Ndlovu-Gatsheni: Nationalism and National Projects

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Scope and content: Despite the fact that nationalism and its national projects have in recent years been severely criticised by postcolonial theorists for being fundamentalist and essentialist; by feminists for being patriarchal and exclusive; by global financial institutions for being antagonistic to development and globalisation; by Pan-Africanists for being anticontinental unity; and by those Africans born after decolonisation for being irrelevant; Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Finex Ndhlovus? book convincingly argues that nationalism has defied its death and displayed remarkable resilience and resonance. Since the end of the Cold War, what has been poignant has been the enduring contest, tensions and contradictions between the growth of various forms of transnationalism on the one hand and a resurgence of territorial as well as other narrow and xenophobic forms of nationalism on the other. In this important book, Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Ndhlovu provide new critical reflections on nationalism and its national projects in southern Africa covering South Africa, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, a member of SADC). The national question is interrogated from different disciplinary vantage points to reveal how it impinges on contemporary challenges of nation-building, development, devolution of power, language questions, and citizenship on the one hand and ethnicity, nativism and xenophobia on the other.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. CHAPTER 1 - Introduction: New Reflections on Nationalism, National Projects and Pan-Africanism in the Twenty-First Century
  8. PART ONE - New meanings of the African National Project
  9. PART TWO - Nationalism, Language and Freedom
  10. PART THREE - Culture, Development and Gender
  11. PART FOUR - National Question, Ethnicity and Citizenship
  12. PART FIVE - CONCLUSION
  13. CHAPTER 18 - Conclusion: The Enduring Legacy of Nationalism and Relevance of National Project in the Twenty-First Century
  14. Back cover