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dc.contributor.authorHale, Frederick Allen
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-18T06:57:42Z
dc.date.available2013-01-18T06:57:42Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationHale, F.A. 2011. Interpreting South African cultural clashes through Darwinian eyes:  Ramsden Balmforth in Cape Town (1902-1911). South African journal of cultural history/Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir kultuurgeskiedenis, 25(1):26-45. [http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/culture]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1018-0745
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/7915
dc.descriptionSouth African Society for Cultural Historyen_US
dc.description.abstractThe Cape Town minister, literary critic, and reformer, Ramsden Balmforth, sought to promote reconciliation between cultures and ethnic groups in South Africa for four decades after emigrating from England in 1897. Although deeply rooted in the social egalitarianism of the Fabian Society, he nevertheless adopted and propagated modified, social Darwinist views, which he believed, if properly understood, could be applied to reforms in South Africa and ameliorate clashes of cultures there. After unsuccessfully attempting to forestall war in 1899, Balmforth argued for an acceptance of what would soon be known as Afrikaans culture as no less worthy and civilised than that of the British and for the application of a radically adapted version of social Darwinism to conflicts between white and black South Africans.en_US
dc.description.abstractDie interpretasie van Suid-Afrikaanse kultuurbotsings uit 'n Darwiniese oogpunt: Ramsden Balmforth in Kaapstad Die Kaapstadse predikant, literêre kritikus en hervormer, Ramsden Balmforth, het vier dekades lank gepoog om rekonsiliasie tussen die kulturele en etniese groepe in Suid-Afrika te bevorder, nadat hy in 1897 uit Engeland geïmmigreer het. Hoewel diep gewortel in die sosiale egalitarisme van die Fabianiese samelewing, het hy die sosiale Darwiniese beskouings aanvaar en aangepas. Hy het geglo dat hierdie beskouings, as dit korrek vertolk word, toegepas kon word op hervorming in Suid-Afrika om kultuurbotsings te temper. Na onsuksesvolle pogings om oorlog in 1899 te voorkom, het Balmforth dít bepleit wat spoedig as Afrikanerkultuur bekend sou staan - naamlik dat dit net so waardig en beskaafd as dié van die Britte is. Verder was hy 'n kampvegter van die toepassing van 'n radikaal aangepaste vorm van sosiale Darwinisme om konflik tussen wit en swart Suid-Afrikaners te voorkom.
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSabineten_US
dc.subjectBalmforthen_US
dc.subjectDarwinen_US
dc.subjectDarwinismeen_US
dc.subjecteugeneseen_US
dc.subjectevolusieen_US
dc.subjectsosiale Darwinismeen_US
dc.subjectoorlewing van die sterksteen_US
dc.subjectDarwinismen_US
dc.subjecteugenicsen_US
dc.subjectevolutionen_US
dc.subjectsocial Darwinismen_US
dc.subjectsurvival of the fittesten_US
dc.titleInterpreting South African cultural clashes through Darwinian eyes:  Ramsden Balmforth in Cape Town (1902–1911)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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