Rebecca Davies is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Plymouth University where she teaches African politics. She holds a DPhil from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa where she remains a visiting fellow at the Centre for Comparative and International Politics. She has taught at universities in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgementsPreface1.Rebuilding the Future or Revisiting the Past?IntroductionA political economy of post-apartheid Afrikaner identityTheorising identity in a global era2.The Afrikaner Nationalist ProjectAppropriating the past: The development of an Afrikaner identityMoving towards consensusA volk in retreat?The nationalist project unravelsA class apart: The maturation of Afrikaner capital3.The Nature of Consensus in the 'New' South AfricaConsolidating dominance? The shape of the new hegemonic orderNeo-liberal orthodoxy and the capital transitionConnecting with the global consensusCompromise on the domestic frontAn African Renaissance?4.Contemporary Manifestations of Afrikaner Identity in an Era of Increasing GlobalisationRethinking the cultural: The future of the Afrikaner pastThe politics of transformationThe new discourse of minority rightsThe culture industryThe rise of a globalised capital consensus5.The 'Logic of the Local' in Contemporary Afrikaner Identity PoliticsThe local tradition in Afrikaner nationalist politicsAn alternative Afrikanerdom?Recreating the cultural: New visions of AfrikaansReorienting the local: Politics at the provincial level6.Renewing the Consensus in a Post-Apartheid Era?BibliographyIndex

Rebecca Davies is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Plymouth University where she teaches African politics. She holds a DPhil from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa where she remains a visiting fellow at the Centre for Comparative and International Politics. She has taught at universities in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgementsPreface1.Rebuilding the Future or Revisiting the Past?IntroductionA political economy of post-apartheid Afrikaner identityTheorising identity in a global era2.The Afrikaner Nationalist ProjectAppropriating the past: The development of an Afrikaner identityMoving towards consensusA volk in retreat?The nationalist project unravelsA class apart: The maturation of Afrikaner capital3.The Nature of Consensus in the 'New' South AfricaConsolidating dominance? The shape of the new hegemonic orderNeo-liberal orthodoxy and the capital transitionConnecting with the global consensusCompromise on the domestic frontAn African Renaissance?4.Contemporary Manifestations of Afrikaner Identity in an Era of Increasing GlobalisationRethinking the cultural: The future of the Afrikaner pastThe politics of transformationThe new discourse of minority rightsThe culture industryThe rise of a globalised capital consensus5.The 'Logic of the Local' in Contemporary Afrikaner Identity PoliticsThe local tradition in Afrikaner nationalist politicsAn alternative Afrikanerdom?Recreating the cultural: New visions of AfrikaansReorienting the local: Politics at the provincial level6.Renewing the Consensus in a Post-Apartheid Era?BibliographyIndex

Rebecca Davies is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Plymouth University where she teaches African politics. She holds a DPhil from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa where she remains a visiting fellow at the Centre for Comparative and International Politics. She has taught at universities in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgementsPreface1.Rebuilding the Future or Revisiting the Past?IntroductionA political economy of post-apartheid Afrikaner identityTheorising identity in a global era2.The Afrikaner Nationalist ProjectAppropriating the past: The development of an Afrikaner identityMoving towards consensusA volk in retreat?The nationalist project unravelsA class apart: The maturation of Afrikaner capital3.The Nature of Consensus in the 'New' South AfricaConsolidating dominance? The shape of the new hegemonic orderNeo-liberal orthodoxy and the capital transitionConnecting with the global consensusCompromise on the domestic frontAn African Renaissance?4.Contemporary Manifestations of Afrikaner Identity in an Era of Increasing GlobalisationRethinking the cultural: The future of the Afrikaner pastThe politics of transformationThe new discourse of minority rightsThe culture industryThe rise of a globalised capital consensus5.The 'Logic of the Local' in Contemporary Afrikaner Identity PoliticsThe local tradition in Afrikaner nationalist politicsAn alternative Afrikanerdom?Recreating the cultural: New visions of AfrikaansReorienting the local: Politics at the provincial level6.Renewing the Consensus in a Post-Apartheid Era?BibliographyIndex