Afterword: On Restitution and Dispossession

Edward Cavanagh
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Edward Cavanagh: University of Ottawa

A chapter in Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa, 2013, pp 101-118 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There has been a specifically settler colonial nature to the contests that have shaped the South African past. Consider the struggle against apartheid. What made it so arduous was the reality that sovereignty belonged not to a metropolitan government eager to cut its losses and retreat, but was rather vested in a settler state eager to protect the place of whites at the top of the social pecking order. Settlers cemented themselves at the top of this pecking order according to their own political programme, and the settler state for most of the twentieth century determined whose interests could be prioritised over those of others.

Keywords: Land Reform; Settler State; National Party; Master Narrative; Land Claim (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137305770_7

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