10.26180/5bac8b718a0c2
CHARLES MATHURIN VILLET
CHARLES MATHURIN
VILLET
The South African heterotopia: Whiteness and the postcolonial struggle for recognition beyond Apartheid
Monash University
2019
Apartheid
Dialectic
Fanon
Foucault
Hegel
Heterotopia
Honneth
Postcolonialism
Recognition
South Africa
Whiteness
Political Theory and Political Philosophy
2019-04-02 21:11:19
Thesis
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/The_South_African_heterotopia_Whiteness_and_the_postcolonial_struggle_for_recognition_beyond_Apartheid/7139591
This thesis looks at the politics of recognition in post-Apartheid South Africa with specific reference to whiteness and affluence. The study proposes a white politics of acknowledgment with the aim to form a philosophical interpretation and critique of the life-world of suburban whiteness. The main hypothesis is that South Africa is a postcolonial heterotopia due to the continued proliferation of economic Apartheid. The study charts the way in which the dialectic of colonial times and Apartheid has become a postcolonial heterotopia after Apartheid. A postcolonial theory of recognition is outlined to show how mutual recognition is problematised beyond Apartheid.