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Developing an inclusive national identity in South Africa through an examination of belonging using WW Gqoba and SEK Mqhayi
Thesis (PhD (Political Sciences))--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/94461 Developing an inclusive national identity in South Africa through an examination of belonging using WW Gqoba and SEK Mqhayi Wolmarans, Frederik Gerhardus u17403988@up.ac.za Kumalo, Siseko H. UCTD Postliberalism Ontology National Identity Belonging Democracy SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Humanities theses SDG-16 Thesis (PhD (Political Sciences))--University of Pretoria, 2024. Examining national identity, belonging and a national culture, this study argues for the theorisation of the political reality in South Africa by analysing the literary landscape of the country. By combining a set of interrelated disciplines, i.e., political theory, history and historiography, philosophy and literature, the study makes the case for a reading and theorising of national culture using the works of historical Black/Indigenous intellectuals whose work was developed using one of the indigenous languages of the country, isiXhosa. Fashioning a national identity, culture and a sense of belonging, it is argued, is possible through a systematic engagement with William Wellington Gqoba and Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi. Such a process of theory development facilitates a postliberal conception of democracy that works to hold two competing identities—Black/Indigenous and white settler colonial descendent identities—in tandem. This study demonstrates the possibilities of articulating contextually situated democratic articulations and contributes to the advancement of the discipline of political theory. This comes as democracy has received a series of critiques from leading intellectuals in the country, on the basis that it undermines the project of mass liberation intended in the promise of democracy. The study concludes by making a case for the systematic engagement of marginal ontologies insofar as we are invested in fashioning a national identity in post-colonial societies. The proposition is that such an engagement can better position political theory intervention, that attempts to understand the conditions that define the political realities of post-colonies and decolonial efforts. Political Sciences PhD (Political Sciences) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 2024-02-12T08:21:57Z 2024-02-12T08:21:57Z 2024-04-12 2024-02-09 Thesis Kumalo, S.H. (2024). Developing an Inclusive National Identity in South Africa through an Examination of Belonging using WW Gqoba and SEK Mqhayi. Ph.D. Thesis in Political Sciences. University of Pretoria http://hdl.handle.net/2263/94461 A2024 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/94461 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 Postliberalism Ontology National Identity Belonging Democracy SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Humanities theses SDG-16 Developing an inclusive national identity in South Africa through an examination of belonging using WW Gqoba and SEK Mqhayi |
| title | Developing an inclusive national identity in South Africa through an examination of belonging using WW Gqoba and SEK Mqhayi |
| title_full | Developing an inclusive national identity in South Africa through an examination of belonging using WW Gqoba and SEK Mqhayi |
| title_fullStr | Developing an inclusive national identity in South Africa through an examination of belonging using WW Gqoba and SEK Mqhayi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Developing an inclusive national identity in South Africa through an examination of belonging using WW Gqoba and SEK Mqhayi |
| title_short | Developing an inclusive national identity in South Africa through an examination of belonging using WW Gqoba and SEK Mqhayi |
| title_sort | developing an inclusive national identity in south africa through an examination of belonging using ww gqoba and sek mqhayi |
| topic | UCTD Postliberalism Ontology National Identity Belonging Democracy SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Humanities theses SDG-16 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/94461 |