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Title:Terminologies of control: tracing the Canadian-South African connection in a word
Author:Cambre, Maria-CarolinaISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies
Volume:34
Issue:1
Pages:19-34
Language:English
Geographic terms:South Africa
Canada
Subjects:apartheid
etymology
lexicology
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589340701336211
Abstract:How did 'multicultural' Canada come to be associated with, and blamed for, the harsh bantustans in South Africa's apartheid regime? How did the word 'apartheid' travel back and forth between the 'Dominion' and the 'Union'? Did the word actually make this voyage? By taking Foucault's notion of genealogical method and applying it to a word (instead of an apparatus such as an asylum), the author conducted a conceptual inquiry into the specific historically verifiable sources of 'apartheid' and its synchronic linguistic study. To conduct an etymon genealogy, she investigated Internet archives for key combinations of words as well as databases, library holdings, newspapers and government records. The majority of sources characterize Canadian apartheid in the Canadian Reserve System as a root of South Africa's bantustans. The volume of references is great enough to warrant identifying this association as a trend. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract]
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