Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid in Western Europe
Edited by Knud Andresen, Sebastian Justke, Detlef Siegfried
This edited collection examines how Western European countries have responded and been influenced by the apartheid system in South Africa. The debate surrounding apartheid in South Africa underwent a shift in the second half of the 20th century, with long held positive, racist European opinions of white South Africans slowly declining since decolonisation in the 1960s, and the increase in the importance of human rights in international politics. While previous studies have approached this question in the context of national histories, more or less detached from each other, this edited collection offers a broader insight into the transnational and entangled histories of Western European and South African societies. The contributors use exemplary case studies to trace the change of perception, covering a plurality of reactions in different societies and spheres: from the political and social, to the economic and cultural. At the same time, the collection emphasizes the interconnections of those reactions to what has been called the last ‘overtly racist regime’ (George Frederickson) of the twentieth century.
Table of contents
Introduction
Knud Andresen, Sebastian Justke, Detlef Siegfried
Moral and Economy
Between Goodwill and Sanctions: Swedish and German Corporations in South Africa and the Politics of Codes of Conduct
Knud Andresen
Perceptions of Petroleum: The British Anti-apartheid Campaign Against Shell
Jakob Skovgaard
Shopping Against Apartheid: Consumer Activism and the History of AA Enterprises (1986–1991)
Benjamin Möckel
Apartheid in Culture and Media
The Comic Representation of Apartheid on British Television in the Late 1960s
Tal Zalmanovich
‘This Peculiar Fact of Living History’: Invoking Apartheid in Black British Writing
Andrea Thorpe
Anti-apartheid and the Politicisation of Pop Music: Controversies Around the Mandela Concert in 1988
Detlef Siegfried
Dutch Dialogues with Afrikaners: The Netherlands and the Cultural Boycott Against the Apartheid Regime in the 1980s
Vincent Jurg, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
Transnational Entanglements in Politics and Churches
Conflicting Solidarities: The French Anti-apartheid Movement and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa, Circa 1960–1991
Namara Burki
Re-centring the Apartheid Discourse: Strategic Changes in South African Propaganda in West Germany
Andreas Kahrs
Overcoming Apartheid Through Partnership? ‘Glocal’ Relationships Among Christians in West Germany, South Africa and Namibia: 1970s–1990s
Sebastian Justke
About the editors
Knud Andresen is Senior Researcher at the Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg and Adjunct Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Sebastian Justke is a historian and research assistant at the Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg, Germany.
Detlef Siegfried is Professor of Modern German and European History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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