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About the Author
Ivor Chipkin received his PhD from the Ecole Normale Superieure in Cachan, France. He is based at the Human Sciences Research Council, where he works on questions of citizenship, governance and democratization, but also teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand. Previously, he was an Oppenheimer Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Senior Associate Member of St-Antony's College at the same university. From 2001 to 2004 he was a researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER).
Reviews
Philosophically grounded, theoretically nuanced, politically controversial and yet urgently relevant, Do South Africans Exist? contains within its pages the four elements necessary to make it an absolute 'must read'. Focussed on the question of what constitutes South Africanness, what makes us a nation, its argument is relevant to probably every major debate about contemporary South Africa. Ultimately this book is about the South African political experiment and the potential for its consolidation. - ADAM HABIB, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Do South Africans Exist? makes a spiky, original and distinctive contribution to the existing literature on nationalism and nation-building in South Africa. It traverses several disciplines - political philosophy, historicised political science, and critical theory - and in doing so, reintroduces the particular case of African nationalism into the more general understanding of nations and nationalism. Chipkin uses lively, forceful prose to handle complex issues. - COLIN BUNDY, Green College, Oxford, UK This book is a major contribution to political theory, of democracy and of nationalism, drawing upon a perceptive analysis of South African experience. - GORAN THERBORN, University of Cambridge, UK
Book Information
ISBN 9781868144457
Author Ivor Chipkin
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Wits University Press
Publisher Wits University Press