Nationalism, modernity and postmodernity: comparing the South African and Australian experiences

E. Louw
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ABSTRACT South Africa and Australia emerged into the twentieth century sharing similar racist (white‐Anglo) modernist nationalist projects – one created by Lord Alfred Milner the other by Alfred Deakin. However, these two societies leave the twentieth century with what seems like fundamentally different futures. In large measure this is because South Africans and Australians have responded quite differently to the economic and cultural trends associated with globalization, postfordism and post‐modernity. Since 1983 Australians have systematically destroyed their old modernist and nationalist social order built upon the “Deakin Settlement”. In its stead, they have dived headlong into the uncertainties of engaging with globalization and post‐fordist economic restructuring and have immersed themselves in a world awash with postmodern (and ‘post‐national') significations. South Africans, on the other hand, appear to be content to leave the old modernist and nationalist frameworks unchallenged — hence their po...
民族主义、现代性与后现代:比较南非与澳大利亚的经验
南非和澳大利亚在进入20世纪时有着相似的种族主义(白人-盎格鲁)现代民族主义项目——一个由阿尔弗雷德·米尔纳勋爵创建,另一个由阿尔弗雷德·迪肯创建。然而,这两个社会在离开20世纪时,似乎有着根本不同的未来。在很大程度上,这是因为南非人和澳大利亚人对与全球化、后福特主义和后现代性相关的经济和文化趋势的反应截然不同。自1983年以来,澳大利亚人系统地摧毁了建立在“迪肯定居点”基础上的旧的现代主义和民族主义社会秩序。相反,他们一头扎进了参与全球化和后福特主义经济重组的不确定性中,并沉浸在一个充满后现代(和“后国家”)意义的世界中。另一方面,南非人似乎满足于让旧的现代主义和民族主义框架不受挑战——因此他们的政治……
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