Browsing Department of Communication Science by Subject "National identity"

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Emerging patterns of social identification in post-apartheid South Africa

Bornman, Elirea (The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 2010)

Theorists acknowledge the possibility of multiple group identification where groups are imbedded in hierarchical structures that can change as the environment changes. This article investigates national, subnational, and ...
National symbols and nation-building in the post-apartheid South Africa

Bornman, Elirea (Elsevier, 2006)

Since the advent of a new democratic dispensation in South Africa in 1994, the metaphor of the ‘‘Rainbow Nation’’, first coined by Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has become the symbol of peace and ...
South African and Flemish soap opera : a critical whiteness studies perspective

Knoetze, Hannelie Marx (2015-11)

The main goal of this thesis was an investigation into the ways in which whiteness is constructed and positioned in the South African soap opera, 7de Laan, and the Flemish soap opera, Thuis, with the emphasis on the possible ...
Struggles of identity in the age of globalisation

Bornman, Elirea (Unisa Press, 2003)

This article explores the intricate interrelationships between discourses on and struggles of identity and the multiple processes associated with increasing globalisation in the modern age. Globalisation is often exclusively ...

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