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Mapping the rise of authoritarian populism and language in post-apartheid South Africa
Dissertation (MSocSci (Social Science)--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/100737 Mapping the rise of authoritarian populism and language in post-apartheid South Africa Nilsen, Alf u21734314@tuks.co.za Love, Jason UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Authoritarian populism Hegemony Crisis Stuart Hall Nationality Xenophobia Ideological language Dissertation (MSocSci (Social Science)--University of Pretoria, 2024. Drawing on writings by Stuart Hall, Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci as well as theories of sociolinguistics, this project tracks the emergence of an ideological language associated with authoritarian populism and how this ideology language has come to construct the Other, the People and the ways in which the Other is responsible for a lack of development for the People. This emergence is situated at the conjuncture of an entrenched socio-economic crisis as well as an unravelling ANC hegemony. This hegemony, which has characterized post-apartheid South Africa has seen significant shifts and declines in the past decade. Through historical processes of nation building which took place at the end of apartheid, notions of belonging and nationality have been baked into post-ANC politics, often manifesting in xenophobia. This forms a crucial part of the rise to prominence of a political ecosystem. This ecosystem has increasingly drawn on exclusionary and violent politics to give direction to a new hegemonic project in the country, using ideological language to construct a crisis with the Other at the centre. This study takes a mixed-methods approach, drawing on the use of Natural Language Processing and a systematic review in order to map the emergence of language of authoritarian populism. University of Pretoria Merit Scholarship Sociology MSocSci (Social Science) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities None 2025-02-11T19:50:05Z 2025-02-11T19:50:05Z 2025-05 2024-08 Dissertation * A2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/100737 https://doi.org10.25403/UPresearchdata.28389866 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Authoritarian populism Hegemony Crisis Stuart Hall Nationality Xenophobia Ideological language Mapping the rise of authoritarian populism and language in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title | Mapping the rise of authoritarian populism and language in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_full | Mapping the rise of authoritarian populism and language in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Mapping the rise of authoritarian populism and language in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mapping the rise of authoritarian populism and language in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_short | Mapping the rise of authoritarian populism and language in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_sort | mapping the rise of authoritarian populism and language in post apartheid south africa |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Authoritarian populism Hegemony Crisis Stuart Hall Nationality Xenophobia Ideological language |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/100737 https://doi.org10.25403/UPresearchdata.28389866 |