TY - BOOK AU - Johnston, Alexander, TI - South Africa: inventing the nation SN - 9781780932705 (pbk.) U1 - 320.968 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Nation-building KW - South Africa KW - Nationalism KW - Politics and government KW - 1989-1994 KW - 1994- N1 - Includes bibliographical references(pages 333-343) and index; Introduction: The problem of nationalism in post-apartheid South afr ica --; The raw material of nation-building --; Who are South Afric ans? --; Nationalism and the end of apartheid --; Legacies --; Im provising the nation, 1990-96 --; Beyond the improvised nation --; Over the rainbow : from Mandela to Mbeki --; From reconciliation to s ocial cohesion --; South Africa today : coming together or falling ap art? --; Do South Africans have a shared life? --; The spectre of a nomie : deviance and national citizenship --; Nation-building 20 year s on --; Conclusion: the problem of nationalism in South Africa today ER -