Racism and Human Ecology

White Supremacy in Twentieth-Century South Africa

Katharina Loeber, Sabine von Heusinger, Norbert Finzsch, Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, Ralph Jessen

• Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Köln
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9783412503567
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: History Reference
• Index: History

The apartheid era in South Africa lasted more than 40 years. It was marked by political repression and the attempt to create a homogeneous "white South Africa", which meant excluding the non-white majority population. The establishment and maintenance of white supremacy in South Africa by colonialism and, since 1948, grand apartheid was not only the result of racist regulations and laws, but also followed a "scientific" logic to justify the resettlement and expulsion of South African blacks.The history of South Africa from 1948 to 1994 can also be seen as the history of a major society-spanning project; an attempt to build a "modern" state on the basis of racial segregation. This work investigates the factors that make it possible to stabilize a policy based on virtually impossible prerequisites over four decades: Ethnic categorization, territorial planning and "environmental protection measures".

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Acknowledgment
• 0. Introduction
• 1. The Implementation of Apartheid, Conservationism, and the Beginning of Betterment Planning
• 2. A ‘Modern’ Racially Ordered State – Social and Spatial Engineering, Crisis, and Collapse
• 3. From Imperial Ecology to Uncertain Sustainability: Ecological Engineering and the Impact on the Human-­Environmental Complex in the Bantustans
• 4. Thaba Nchu
• 5. Conclusion
• Bibliography