Abebe (Hrsg.) Zegeye

Media, Identity and the Public Sphere in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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The essays in this collection reveal that the social and political development of post-apartheid South Africa depends to an important degree on the evolving cultural, social and political identities of its diverse population and on the role of the media of mass communications in the country's new multicultural democracy. The popular struggle against the country's former apartheid regime and the on-going democratisation of South African politics have generated enormous creativity and inspiration as well as many contradictions and unfulfilled expectations. In the present period of social transformation, the legacy of the country's past is both… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Harris, Richard L. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-90-04-12633-6
EAN: 9789004126336
Produktnummer: 1777938
Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 194 S.
Masse: H23.9 cm x B16.3 cm x D1.2 cm 386 g
Reihenbandnummer: 88
Gewicht: 386

Über den Autor

Abebe Zegeye was born in Ethiopia, studied in the US and UK, and obtained his Ph.D. at Oxford University. He is currently a Professor of Sociology at the University of South Africa (Unisa) in Pretoria. He has written extensively on society, human rights and social problems in Africa. He is co-editor of Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture and of African Identities. Richard Harris is Professor of Global Studies and the Director of the Integrated Studies Program at California State University, Monterey Bay. He specialized in African Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles where he obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science. He has written extensively on political, economic and social issues in Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as on globalisation, revolutionary change, socialism and democracy. He is a coordinating editor of Latin American Studies and co-editor of the Journal of Developing Studies.